Social Worker, Early Defense

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Job DetailsLevel: ExperiencedJob Location: Manhattan, Queens, Bronx, Staten Island - New York, NY 10013Position Type: Full-TimeEducation Level: 4 Year College DegreeSalary Range: $76,900.00 - $97,200.00 Salary/yearTravel Percentage: NegligibleJob Category: Social WorkThe Center for Family Representation Inc. (CFR) is an award-winning, innovative law and policy organization that serves primarily Black and Brown families and youth in Queens, Manhattan, the Bronx, and Staten Island with an interdisciplinary legal defense model that serves more than 3,000 clients every year. CFR was originally founded in 2002 to dramatically change the trajectory of indigent parents being prosecuted by the City’s Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) and our goal is to reduce the harm of family separation and prevent or minimize the time any child spends in foster care. CFR provides interdisciplinary family defense to parents charged by ACS with a model that was unique at our founding and that is now being replicated nationally: we assign every client an attorney and a social work staff member, and teams have the support of parent advocates, who are parents with direct personal experience losing...