Brightpoint (formerly known as Children’s Home & Aid) invites you to join our team of mission-driven staff who share a common vision: an equitable world where all children and families thrive in strong communities. As a leader in the human services sector for 140 years, we aim to advance the well-being of children by investing in families and strengthening communities through data-informed, collaborative, and preventative solutions.

The Juvenile Justice Specialist is a critical member of Brightpoint's team, providing strength-based, trauma-informed case management services to juvenile justice-involved youth. The program relies on a collaborative, wraparound approach to services, focusing on increasing protective factors, including emotional regulation and educational and vocational goals, to set youth up for a safe and successful future, free of incarceration. As a Juvenile Justice Specialist, you will meet with youth and families in their homes and other community-based locations, providing individualized services aimed at strengthening relationships, addressing trauma, and building positive community connections. You will also help youth and families to navigate the Juvenile Justice System, work closely with other service providers such as educational and workforce readiness programs, local probation departments, and mental health and substance abuse treatment providers to ensure coordination of services, and complete thorough and timely documentation, including assessment and service notes, using a web-based client services platform.

Candidate qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work, Psychology, or a closely related social services field required. Experience working with juvenile justice-involved youth highly desirable. Valid driver's license, insurance, and a reliable vehicle required. Clear and strength-based communication style, both verbally and in your written communication, required. You recognize that juvenile justice-involved youth have experienced trauma that must be understood and addressed to support healing and thriving.

Job details:

Compensation: Range starts at $20/hr; offers are commensurate with experience. Benefits: Medical/dental/vision insurance, 3+ weeks paid time off in the first year including the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day (PTO increases with tenure); 11 paid holidays, supplemental insurance options, 401(k) with match (more benefits details here). Location: Hybrid (remote/in office). Juvenile Justice Specialists have the opportunity to work from the office or a remote location between client visits. In-home services provided in St. Clair County. Schedule: Full-time, hourly; general business hours with flexibility for evening appointments to accommodate clients’ schedules. Juvenile Justice Specialists participate in an on-call after-hours crisis rotation. Student Loan Forgiveness: Brightpoint is an approved agency for Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF).

Where you work matters.

We believe that by building diverse and inclusive teams of passionate advocates for youth and families, we can continue to show up for Illinois families, putting those families at the center of every decision, and strengthening the communities where we all work, play, and live together. (More about who we are here.)

We invite you to become an active member of a team that supports, inspires, and challenges each other, and grow your career in an organization that celebrates emerging leaders and provides development and learning opportunities aligned with your individual goals and aspirations. If you are looking for an opportunity to do meaningful work, including raising your unique and authentic voice to disrupt the systemic inequality impacting children and families, we encourage you to apply today.  

Click here to review our agency’s Blueprint for Impact.

Brightpoint is committed to the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. All employment activities are conducted in an equal and equitable fashion. The Agency prohibits employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, parental status, veteran status, source of income, and any other legally protected category in the recruitment, selection, hiring, determination of salary level and benefits, promotion, demotion, layoff, termination, and other terms and conditions of employment.