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The candidate will responsible for working on-site as a reentry legal navigation specialist: conducting intakes, providing legal advice and reentry-related support, making strong referrals, and taking on cases for representation as needed, with a strong focus on in-depth legal support related to employment/occupational licensing, housing, and family law issues. Connecting TFCF clients and the San Bernardino community even more deeply to statewide Reentry Legal Hotline and other statewide programs. Coordinating regular Know Your Rights trainings, including at TFCF housing locations, inside prisons/jails, ongoing training for TFCF staff and case managers, and in-depth clinics and workshops on key reentry legal topics for TFCF clients. Identifying issues that need a “systems change” solution, coordinating with and TFCF policy advocacy teams, and building strong networks and coalitions of impacted people and other stakeholders who can lead policy reform efforts at the local, state and federal levels.c Training women in policy advocacy strategies and the legislative process, so they can be leaders in systemic and structural reform impacting them, their families, and their communities. Recruiting and creating a panel of pro bono attorneys to assist with legal clinics and take on direct representation, where appropriate. Recruiting law clerks, interns, and volunteers to support our work at TFCF and for the broader San Bernardino community. Hosting “Roadmap to Reentry” trainings and workshops for the wider network of San Bernardino/Southern California community-based organizations, parole and probation departments, higher education colleges, Blue Ribbon Commission on Employment Equity, and others around common reentry barriers, including family reunification questions, employment barriers, and discrimination. Hosting regular legal clinics to scale direct services and reentry legal expertise to benefit systems-impacted individuals and families in the broader San Bernardino/Southern California region. Representing and the R.E.A.L Project/TFCF collaborative at community events and public forums, and serve as an ambassador for reentry advocacy issues more broadly. Supporting P.R., Development, Communications, and Storytelling projects as needed. Tracking data and program outcomes. Maintaining organized files, systems, and client databases. Respond professionally and promptly to dynamic and ever-shifting programmatic demands in a startup environment, working collaboratively with our small but mighty team of reentry attorneys. Supporting both in grant reporting. Conducting administrative tasks as needed.

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Root & Rebound
K.C. Taylor
1730 Franklin Street Suite 300
Oakland
California
United States 94612
Website : http://www.rootandrebound.org/