Youth Services Program Coordinator, Pacific Center
Berkeley, CA
Pacific Center, located in Berkeley California, has served the LGBTQ community of the East Bay since 1973 and is the third-oldest LGBTQ Community Center in the United States. Pacific Center offers licensed individual, couples and family mental health services, HIV counseling services, peer-support groups and a vibrant youth leadership program.
The portfolio of the Director of Policy is diverse, including traditional policy research and advocacy alongside direct involvement with systems actively engaged in reform. The position offers a unique and exciting variety of professional experiences and challenges, a high degree of public visibility — and abundant opportunities to influence the development of public policy regarding child welfare at all levels.
The Youth Services Program Coordinator facilitates Pacific Center’s youth leadership program that explores LGBT and questioning identity, family dynamics, cultural heritage, connections with community, healthy life choices, peer pressure, social and physical challenges for LGBTQ youth.
Legal Graduate Assistant/Staff Attorney, Legal Services of Northern California
Ukiah, CA
Founded in 1956, Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) provides high quality civil legal assistance to the poor, elderly, and people with disabilities in 23 northern California counties. The Homeless Prevention and Rapid Re-housing Program (HPRP) is funded through the American Recover and Reinvestment Act of 2009. The program attorney will be assigned to this project which seeks to assist people facing eviction to maintain their housing or to transfer to another home while avoiding homelessness.
The position open is for a Legal Graduate Assistant/Staff Attorney and is a six-month to one year contract.
Clinical Instructor/Barton Center Director, Barton Child Law & Policy Center
Emory Law School, Atlanta, GA
The Barton Child Law and Policy Center at Emory University works to promote and protect the well-being of neglected, abused and court-involved children in the state of Georgia and to inspire excellence among the adults responsible for protecting and nurturing these children, and to prepare child advocacy professionals.
Emory Law School seeks a clinical instructor to lead a multi-disciplinary children’s law center housing three clinical offerings as well as other student opportunities for engaged learning. The director must have significant experience in child welfare and juvenile justice policy development and client representation, teaching and student supervision, and management and fundraising. The director supervises two to five attorneys serving as clinical instructors or fellows and two support staff.
