Job Summary: The Trauma Intervention Specialist (TIS) works on the Healing Hurt People-Chicago team and with its partners: the Department of Trauma at Stroger Hospital of Cook County; Comer Children’s Hospital; and Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. Healing Hurt People-Chicago (HHP-C) is a replication of a program by the same name developed by Drexel as a community-focused, trauma-informed, hospital-based violence intervention program. The HHP-C model utilizes intensive case management, psychoeducation, and trauma-focused individual and group services to:

• promote healing from trauma
• decrease high-risk behaviors in order to reduce re-injury, retaliation, arrests
• increase capacity to thrive

HHP-C will target pediatric and adolescent patients identified as victims of violent injuries through their encounters with the Level 1 Trauma Center partners (Stroger and Comer Hospitals).

 Job Duties: The Trauma Intervention Specialist will:

• Conduct psychosocial/spiritual assessments and orientation with Trauma patients and families, including conversations about advance directives. Completes assessments regarding the impact of trauma, ethical issues, spiritual and emotional health, and safety risks (re-injury and/or retaliation). Offers professional spiritual, palliative care, therapeutic, risk reduction, and bereavement interventions as appropriate.
• Provide support services to families and patients and makes linkages to partner providers and community resources as appropriate.
• Provide outreach, psychoeducation, and information regarding HHP-C programming for eligible patients on the Stroger campus.
• Provide follow-up outreach, psychoeducation, and information regarding HHP-C programming for eligible patients who are discharged from both Comer and Stroger hospitals.
• Coordinate patient follow-up with HHP-C staff.
• Maintain documentation and reporting mechanisms for patient/family interventions and HHP-C outreach.