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.
JOIN US AND BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
Join Our Team
The Gemma Project is committed to fostering a supportive work environment. We welcome and strongly encourage applicants with personal or familial experiences of incarceration, recognizing the value of lived expertise in shaping meaningful and effective programs.
We understand the challenges of working in human services and prioritize the well-being of our team by offering a living wage, health benefits, a retirement program, reasonable workloads and work hours, and professional development opportunities. Our organization embraces an individualized approach, ensuring that both our staff and those we serve feel valued and supported.
We also advocate for expanding and strengthening the workforce dedicated to justice system reform. Through paid internships for pre- and post-graduate Social Workers and other helping professionals, we offer hands-on experience that supports degree and licensure completion. Additionally, we invest in ongoing training and professional development to enhance skills and expertise in this critical field.
Full time, part time, paid internships & volunteer opportunities available.
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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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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.
This position reports to the Executive Director. 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.
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Continuing Care Coordinator provides guidance and direction to the Continuing Care
Assistant; demonstrates healthy professional boundaries; develops critical relationships
with community, county, and reentry partners; cultivates peer and mentorship opportunities
for program graduates; develops content and facilitates Continuing Care Reentry groups;
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.
This position reports to the Executive Director.
The Gemma Project provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.