A three-year, independent analysis of Gemma showed a 40% reduction in recidivism - from 70% to 30%.
These outcomes are impressive, needed on a larger scale, and most importantly replicable.
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The Gemma Project is an organization that fully embraces employees who have been directly impacted by incarceration - personal, parent, partner, or other. We strongly encourage individuals with lived expertise to apply.
The Gemma Project recognizes the impact human services work can have on service providers and aims to take care of our staff and those we serve by paying a living wage, providing health benefits and a retirement program, maintaining reasonable workloads and work hours, reinforcing professional boundaries, and centering professional development. We are a trauma responsive culture in which we demonstrate for those we serve that we value all people in the work we do.
We also believe in advocating for increasing the quantity and quality of skilled, trained professionals working in the field of criminal legal system reform. We do this by integrating paid internship opportunities for pre and post graduate Social Workers and other helping professionals to gain hours toward degree or license completion, and by providing training development opportunities.
Full time, part time, paid internships & volunteer opportunities available.
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You’ll be a great fit for our team if you are highly skilled, compassionate, tenacious, and dedicated to providing a trusted bridge of support from in-custody to out-of-custody for justice involved women. A key goal of this position is the co-creation of individualized reentry plans for each Gemma Day Program participant prior to their release, accompanied with system navigation and reentry support to assist participants in reaching their reentry plan goals upon release. The Continuing Care Coordinator closely collaborates with the Day Program Coordinator and develops & maintains trusted relationship with system partners
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You’ll be a great fit for our team if you are highly skilled, compassionate, and dedicated to providing direct-service reentry programming in an in-custody setting to justice involved women. The Day Program Coordinator works to build rapport and trusting relationships with participants in a group setting prior to release and collaborates with the Continuing Care Coordinator through intentional efforts to maintain participant engagement upon release. The Day Program Coordinator conducts all aspects of running in-custody programming including: interviews, assessments, acceptance decisions; develops, delivers and maintains a relevant, applicable and trauma-responsive curriculum; provides consistent course supervision, safety, and structure to support participants in successful program completion, demonstrates healthy professional boundaries; recruits, trains, and supervises volunteer instructors and works with them to improve and update curricula as needed; works in close collaboration with The Gemma Project Team; supervises and provides direction to the Day Program Assistant; conducts necessary outreach for program; assists in evaluation of program effectiveness; maintains program data and contributes to necessary reports; engages professionally with corrections and community partners as well as funders, donors, and model site visitors. description
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You’ll be a great addition to our team if you are an innovative Donor Relations and Social Media professional who is committed to developing and implementing fundraising and engagement strategies to grow and enhance revenue and awareness of The Gemma Project’s mission. The Donor Relations and Social Media Coordinator’s primary duty is to assist in the development of various fundraising strategies and to lead those efforts to ensure revenue goals are met. The Donor Relations and Social Media Coordinator duties also include developing and executing social media strategies, creating, and sharing engaging content, moderating user-generated content, analyzing social data, and collaborating with Executive Director to manage reputation and coordinate strategies. The Donor Relations and Social Media Coordinator must also be able to collaborate equally well with staff, board directors, program participants, and the public.
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You’ll be a great fit for our team if you are a skilled, motivated Data Analyst committed to playing a critical role in enabling The Gemma Project and our clients to make data-driven decisions to improve the lives of justice involved women. The Data Analyst is responsible for collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from various sources to provide insights, recommendations, and reports to both internal and external interested parties. Candidates must have experience with data management, tracking, cleaning, and conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis as well as tracking local, State, and national criminal legal system related policies and trends especially as it relates to gender. This role includes providing data analysis for our direct-service in-custody and reentry programming in addition to providing guidance and technical assistance to State, Tribal, and local agencies; nonprofits; and reentry service providers as they develop and replicate our model in their own jurisdictions. The data analyst will also work with the team to develop products, such as guides, webinars, and trainings that share knowledge learned through technical assistance with the field at large.
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The Gemma Project is seeking skilled, passionate, and dedicated individuals eager to contribute to our mission of providing and promoting the national creation of gender-responsive jail reentry programming for incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women. As a trauma-responsive, female-led organization, we center integrity and compassion in all the services we provide. This part-time position, requiring about 10-15 hours per week, offers compensation through clinical supervision and is ideal for those looking to complete or round out their clinical hours. Join our team to reduce recidivism, break the intergenerational cycle of incarceration, and create healthier communities.
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You’ll be a great fit for our team if you are highly skilled, compassionate, and dedicated subject matter expert who is committed to transferring relevant knowledge and teaching practical skills to assist justice involved women achieve their reentry goals. The Gemma Project is seeking seasoned expert volunteers to supplement curricula in the following areas:
~ Money Management, Budgeting and Financial Literacy
~ Benefits access and eligibility
~ Relapse Prevention, stress reduction and coping skills
~ Job skills and employment readiness
~ Education and vocational attainment
~ Healthy eating, eating to nourish and heal the body
~ Parenting
~ Grief
~ Community and Civic engagement and social justice
~ Healthy Relationships, setting and maintaining boundaries
~ Exercise and movement
~ Mindfulness, meditation, and qi gong
~ Healing and expression through the arts
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You’ll be a great fit for our team if you are skilled, compassionate, and dedicated to providing direct-service reentry programming in an in-custody setting to justice involved women. The Day Program Assistant works to build rapport and a trusting relationship with participants in the Day Program and supports the Day Program Coordinator through intentional efforts to maintain participant engagement upon release. The Day Program Assistant supports the Day Program Coordinator in running all aspects of in-custody programming including: interviews, assessments, enrollment decisions; assists to develop, deliver and maintain a relevant, applicable and trauma-responsive curriculum; helps to provide consistent course supervision, safety, and structure to support participants in successful program completion, demonstrates healthy professional boundaries; works in close collaboration with The Gemma Project Team; supports outreach for program; assists in evaluation of program effectiveness; assists in collection and maintenance of program data and contributes to necessary reports; engages professionally with staff, corrections and community partners as well as funders, donors, and model site visitors.
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You’ll be a great fit for our team if you are skilled, compassionate, and dedicated to helping to provide a trusted bridge of support from in-custody to out-of-custody for justice involved women. The Continuing Care Assistant works under the direction of the Continuing Care Coordinator to assure that reentry is as safe, structured, supported, and seamless as possible. The Continuing Care Assistant works to build rapport and a trusting relationship with participants prior to release and devotes intentional effort to maintaining participant engagement upon release. A key goal of this position is to support the Continuing Care Coordinator in the co-creation of individualized Wellness & Reentry plans with each Gemma Day Program participant prior to their release, accompanied with system navigation and reentry support to assist participants in reaching their reentry plan goals upon release. The Continuing Care Assistant is expected to demonstrate healthy professional boundaries; develop critical relationships with community, county, and reentry partners; help to cultivate peer and mentorship opportunities for program graduates; assist the Continuing Care Coordinator to develop content and co-facilitate Continuing Care Reentry groups; assist the Continuing Care Coordinator in evaluation of program effectiveness; help to maintain program data and contribute to necessary reports; engage professionally with staff, corrections and community partners, as well as funders, donors, and model site visitors.