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Forensic Social Worker
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- Job DescriptionThe Criminal Defense Practice has an opening for a Forensic Social Worker in its Bronx office to provide client services.
- While working closely with the Criminal Defense attorneys, the Forensic Social Worker’s (FSW) primary role is to interview clients, and any collateral contacts, with the goal of gathering a life history to highlight mitigating circumstances such as mental illness, drug addiction, trauma and/or chronic poverty leading to a client’s involvement in the criminal justice system.
- The FSW will then advocate for an alternative to detention, an alternative to incarceration, or lesser sentence, based on mitigating factors.
- The FSW will evaluate clients and recommend a treatment program.
- The FSW will fill out necessary paperwork and provide supporting documents to facilitate a client’s interview with a program and/or to assure a client’s acceptance into a program.
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