Dream Defenders is seeking a Medic to provide community-based crisis intervention services. These services are housed under the Healing and Justice Center. The Freedom House Mobile Crisis Unit (FH) exists to respond to mental health, substance abuse and homeless-related emergencies and dispatch a team of medics, crisis workers, and medical doctors in response to calls through our 1-866-SAFEMIA line. 

Freedom House provides a non-police mobile response to mental health crises. Under direction, the FH Medic provides community-based crisis intervention services for children and adults with mental health and/or substance use needs on mobile crisis and mobile evaluation teams which includes direct client contact in the community, partnering with law enforcement, crisis intervention, field clinical assessments, outreach services, and other related duties as assigned.The FH team deals with a wide range of mental health-related crises, including conflict resolution, welfare checks, substance abuse, suicide threats, and more, relying on trauma-informed de-escalation and harm reduction techniques. FH provides a non-police mobile response to mental health crises. Mobile crisis interventions are face-to-face, short-term, intensive mental health services provided during a mental health exacerbation. Our team is made up of a crisis worker, a medical professional, or a peacemaker trained in conflict resolution. 

Dream Defenders is seeking Crisis Interventionists to provide community-based crisis intervention services. These services are housed under the Healing and Justice Center. The Freedom House Mobile Crisis Unit (FH) exists to respond to mental health, substance abuse and homeless-related emergencies and dispatch a team of medics, crisis workers, and medical doctors in response to calls through our 1-866-SAFEMIA line.  The services are for children and adults with mental health and/or substance use needs. Services include direct client contact in the community, partnering with law enforcement, crisis intervention, field clinical assessments, outreach services, and other related duties as assigned. They are a field responder tasked with assessing and managing the behavioral health issues of patients in crisis and work in tandem with the Mobile Crisis medic.

Freedom House provides a non-police mobile response to mental health crises. Mobile crisis interventions are face-to-face, short-term, intensive mental health services provided during a mental health exacerbation. Our team is made up of a crisis worker, a medical professional, or a peacemaker trained in conflict resolution. Our services are limited to a 5-mile radius of Liberty City and include:

Dream Defenders is seeking a skilled clinician, supervisor, and administrator with extensive youth and family therapy experience to act as our Clinical Director within the Healing and Justice Center. 

The Clinical Director is responsible for providing clinical leadership and policy direction for our trauma recovery center, maintaining accepted standards of medical practice throughout the facility; and providing administrative and professional supervision of staff. Additionally, the Clinical Director is responsible for ensuring oversight in the areas of: licensing regulations, legal and ethical regulations, clinical supervision, and quality assurance. 

The Clinical Director will manage the Trauma Recovery Center staff but will also provide consultation to other agency programs where services are provided such as: our mental health crisis response, mentorship and violence intervention programs. 

The Political Director at Dream Defenders plays a critical role in advancing our organization's political agenda and promoting our values of justice and equality. This leadership position involves developing and executing political strategies, building alliances, and driving advocacy efforts to create lasting change in our communities.

The National Organizer for Dream Defenders will be responsible for working with members and potential members across the country to build the Dream Defenders movement, advance our campaigns, and develop the leadership of our members. This is a high-impact, high-energy position that requires an individual with a strong background in community organizing, campaign strategy, and leadership development.

Dream Defenders is seeking an experienced communicator with organizing and supervisory experience for its position of Communications Director. Our Communications Director will be responsible for developing our communications strategy; political and cultural outreach; managing the Communications Department; ensuring communications are a central tenet of all aspects of our work; and collaborating with our partners.

The Communications Director will be a senior level communications professional with strong management skills and experience overseeing media relations, digital media, creative content, cultural outreach and narrative development strategies. In addition to driving the vision of the department, the Communications Director will be a member of Dream Defenders’ Leadership Team and will collaborate on shaping and advancing organization-wide practices and strategies that position the organization to do impactful work and grow Dream Defenders into a national political home for Black people