Part-Time Residential Life Skills and Recreational Coach
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Lawndale Christian Legal Center
Chicago, IL, US
Summary
The coach partners with residents to develop essential life skills, including time management, goal setting, and self-regulation. They also facilitate workshops and collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to promote safety and resident growth.
Job Description
Job Summary:
The Residential Life Skills and Recreation Coach will work with residents in the Dr. Dennis Deer Community Justice Center Residents. The Life Coach works directly with high-risk individuals in the residential center. The Life Skills and Recreation Coach’s job is to partner with residents to develop and strengthen the life skills necessary for the residents to thrive and grow in time management strategies, and effective life skills tailored to them bettering their lives. You will need to motivate residents to take responsibility for their lives by fostering self-regulation, goal setting, and persistence throughout their time while living at the Deer Center. You will also develop and facilitate workshops, presentations, and programming that promote safety. You will need to collaborate with other staff such as case managers, attorneys, therapists, outreach workers, and other community partners.
Saturday and Sunday:3pm-12pm
Lawndale Christian Legal Center (LCLC) is the only organization in Chicago that provides North Lawndale opportunity youth, 24 and under, with community-based holistic legal services. This highly relational and innovative model of holistic defense is performed by an interdisciplinary team of attorneys, case managers, outreach workers, restorative justice practitioners, and wrap around social supports working seamlessly together to meet the needs of minors and emerging adults in contact with the criminal justice system at every stage: diversion, court advocacy, and reintegration. This integrated team completes legal-social assessments that make for more competent and zealous legal representation as well as improve youth outcomes in school and employment by identifying service interventions needed in mental health, workforce development, mentoring, education, faith and spirituality, family support, and housing. By implementing this violence prevention and public health model of restorative justice, LCLC is leading the transformation of the traditional criminal justice system and creating best practices in community-based holistic interventions that are more impactful, cost significantly less, and provide clear pathways toward meaningful advances in public safety. More information on LCLC can be found at www.lclc.net.
Founded
2010
Company size
11-50 employees
Industry
Law Practice
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
