**OJJDP Violence Prevention Specialist/Care Coordinator**

**Description**

**University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus**

**Department: Pediatrics, Section of Adolescent Medicine**

**Job Title: OJJDP Violence Prevention Specialist/Care Coordinator**

**Position #: 00822690 - Requisition #:36734**

**Job Summary:**

Key Responsibilities:

+ Coordinate patients interfacing with the CHAVAT, including reviewing charts for eligibility for the program, providing outreach to families, and coordinating intakes.
+ Conduct assessments and provide brief motivational interviewing interventions for youth at risk for are having already perpetrating violence.
+ Conduct MI-focused interventions focusing on ways to reduce both violence perpetration, gun carrying, and gun violence in the outpatient setting.
+ Communicate treatment plans to the other behavioral health specialists involved in the CHAVAT as well as coordinate a...