Gang Exiting Journey Helper

**Job description**

Our team at Native Clan prides ourselves on our commitment to supporting, healing, and our dedication to serving our community in progressive and adaptive ways. Founded in 1972, Native Clan for the most part works with those relatives exiting western justice systems, their families, and community to support a positive healing journey that is right for our relatives impacted by those systems and trauma caused by colonization and stemming from intergenerational trauma.

**Our Mission Statement**: “The Native Clan Organization helps and supports our relatives navigate through, heal from, and return to their communities after contact with justice systems and to provide advocacy and progression of Indigenous ways of justice within those systems.’’

**Our Vision Statement**: “Our Vision is to remove barriers for those relatives who have come into contact with justice systems, and ensure they return to their communities to live their lives in their most positive forms for them.’’

**Process and Support**: The Native Clan Organization (NCO) acknowledges and supports the importance of having a team of pathfinders and helpers that reflect our relatives that we support. NCO practices equitable hiring practices and wants our work team to reflect those we serve as we aid our relatives on their journeys. In this spirit, preference will be given to those who self-declare Indigenous backgrounds in their resume or cover letter.

As part of making sure those joining our team understand what our team does, what are focuses of Native Clan in the present are, and to get to know each other more we have a hiring process that is different from many organizations. Below are the steps and just a general idea of what these steps in our hiring include:
1. If you would like to join our team, please read, and think about this job/role posting and see if you are interested and think about if you would be a great fit.

4. The “orientation” is a chance for our Pathfinding team to give a presentation and general information session to those who are invited to attend, and those who go to this stage of the hiring process. We will arrange multiple in-person and virtual sessions to accommodate people’s schedules, but this will need to be completed prior to an interview. This step is to ensure that people wanting to join our team see our work culture, values, leadership and support style, and the range of services our team offers as this isn’t fully communicated during a dedicated interview.

5. The interview stage will be for those who are invited from the pool of people who have attended “orientations” or our information sessions. These interviews will take place in person for the most part unless requested depending on the situation, and when we call or contract those who are invited to interview, we will work to get rid of any hurdles like timing, transportation, or scheduling. Interviews will be “paid” in the sense that anyone who takes time to be interviewed will be offered an honorarium for their time

6. After the interview stage our Pathfinding team will work to choose who would be the best fit at the time for our team and contact those who will be offered the role on the team. Those who aren’t offered a role at that time will be asked if they would like our team to keep them in mind for future roles, and we can of course offer feedback

**Position Summary**: Gang Exiting Journey Helper

We are excited to be launching our Gang Exiting program to safely help and support relatives exiting gangs within community and custody This program is new to NCO, and our community. This program will work in custody and in community to help our relatives navigate leaving gangs, and finding the most positive life for them after exiting their gang(s).
- What is a Journey Helper? What does this work include? What is the benefit of working in this role at Native Clan?_

**What this role does in its day-to-day**:

- Helps and supports our relatives find more positive supports to support them in their journey of leaving gangs
- Works with Correctional Service Canada (CSC) to find the most realistic and positive paths for relatives to enter community
- Build relationships with our relatives who are exiting gangs, and help them navigate policies, systems, and procedures to be able to do so in a safe way
- Build knowledge, and track data to better adjust the program to work for our relatives in a better way to support their gang exiting journey
- Identify and connect community supports for relatives exiting the justice system who are striving to find a more positive way of life
- Takes part in progressive, challenging, and customized training and professional development that is guided by the Chief Executive Pathfinder, but for the most part, is directed by areas where you would like to progress and gain knowledge in to help community

**Someone who is a great fit for the role would be someone who**:

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