Housing Court Navigator, Eviction Diversion Initiative (Brooklyn)

THE ORGANIZATION The Center for Justice Innovation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community safety and racial justice.

Since 1996, we’ve worked alongside communities, courts, and those most directly affected by the justice system to build stronger, healthier, and more equitable neighborhoods.

With a team of over 900 staff and an annual budget of $130 million, the Center carries out its mission through three core strategies :

• Operating Programs  that pilot new ideas and address local challenges; Conducting original research to evaluate what works—and what doesn’t; and Providing expert assistance and policy guidance to reformers across the country and beyond.
• Backed by decades of on-the-ground experience and nationally recognized expertise, we bring innovative, practical, and lasting solutions to justice systems nationwide.
• Learn more about our work at www.innovatingjustice.org .
• THE OPPORTUNITY The Center for Justice Innovation seeks a Housing Court Navigator for the Eviction Diversion Initiative (EDI) in Kings County.
• The mission of EDI is to ensure access to the holistic resources needed for tenants and their families to prevent eviction and maintain safe, stable, and affordable housing.
• EDI helps litigants get assistance with arrears and ongoing rental assistance, legal assistance, public benefits, mental health services, employment, financial empowerment, and connections to other community-based organizations.
• EDI also facilitates collaboration with court administration, judges, and clerks to review data, identify resources, and problem-solve issues as they arise.
• The EDI project is run by the Center for Justice Innovation in Kings and Suffolk Counties in New York State.
• Reporting to the Project Manager of Eviction Diversion in the Kings County (Brooklyn) Housing Court, the Navigator is responsible for supporting the daily operations of the EDI grant program with Kings County (Brooklyn) Housing Court.
• The Housing Court Navigator will be responsible for identifying and assisting public housing and housing voucher recipients who are facing eviction as well as other tenants facing eviction or displacement.
• The selected candidate will be charged with initiating and maintaining relationships and working collaboratively with stakeholders, including attorneys for litigants (including but not limited to attorneys for tenants and attorneys for the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), the presiding judge and their court attorneys and clerks, Office of Court Administration (OCA) personnel, Adult Protective Services (APS), Human Resources Administration (HRA), other government and social services agencies, and tenant families.
• The Navigator will also coordinate case-needs, identify social service needs, facilitating referrals, and record progress and outcomes.

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