The MyJOB Transition Navigator turns classroom learning into a release-day plan — connecting justice-involved youth to named workforce, education, and training partners in their final 45 days inside, so they walk out with people, not paperwork.
The MyJOB Transition Navigator provides targeted transition support for young people nearing release from DCYF Juvenile Rehabilitation, with primary focus on participants within 45 days of release. Participants served by this role are already receiving or have completed MyJOB instruction delivered by a Career Coach. The Navigator carries that learning forward into real next steps connected to employment, education, training, and community-based workforce resources — translating curriculum into a release-day plan the participant can walk out and execute.
This work operationalizes the warm-handoff standard at the heart of best-practice reentry: no participant leaves with a referral list when they could leave with named people, scheduled meetings, and a concrete first step. Pre-release relationships hold post-release stabilization. The Navigator is the human thread between MyJOB instruction inside the facility and the workforce, education, and training systems waiting on the other side of the gate.
Role distinction. Career Coaches deliver the core MyJOB curriculum and the five required Pre-Employment Transition Services: Job Exploration Counseling, Counseling on Post-Secondary Opportunities, Workplace Readiness Training, Instruction in Self-Advocacy, and Work-Based Learning Experiences. The Transition Navigator provides focused individualized follow-through within those same five service categories — never duplicating instruction, always reinforcing and applying it. Where the Career Coach establishes the foundation across the broader pre-release window, the Navigator concentrates on the final 45 days, when readiness has to become action, and continues across the gate for up to 90 days, when continuity makes the difference between a plan that holds and a plan that falls apart.
Navigator activities include warm handoffs to DVR, WorkSource, Workforce Development Councils, community and technical colleges, registered apprenticeship, and employer partners; informational interviews and speaker connections; self-advocacy practice and disclosure coaching; customized transition planning; and individualized preparation for the first community appointment. During the 90-day post-release window, the Navigator also continues to deliver career coaching and additional paid work-based learning experiences directly.
This is not a therapy, probation, supervision, or general case management role. It is a workforce transition role focused on helping justice-involved youth apply what they have learned through MyJOB to their release plan, career goals, and first community connections.
The Navigator delivers structured, documented support inside the five required Pre-ETS service categories. Every billable contact maps to one category — Job Exploration Counseling, Post-Secondary Counseling, Workplace Readiness, Self-Advocacy, or a Work-Based Learning Activity or Experience — recorded in the participant's contact log and counted against the 120-hour-per-category lifetime cap that applies across all contractors statewide.
Delivery is virtual and statewide. Modalities include scheduled virtual meetings with participants and their assigned JR counselor or facility support team; approved tele-service contacts conducted under DCYF and DVR documentation standards; preparation and delivery of mailed transition materials — career flyers, resource information, appointment reminders, individualized next-step prompts — sent through facility-approved mail protocols; and preparation of a customized transition portfolio or release-day plan that may be placed with the participant's property before release with facility property-room authorization. Tele-service sessions are not recorded; documentation is carried by sign-in sheets, contact logs, and progress notes that link each contact to a Pre-ETS category, duration, modality, and outcome.
The Navigator also coordinates follow-up meetings with community partners before and after release to support a clear handoff into workforce, education, training, DVR, WorkSource, apprenticeship, employer, or culturally responsive community resources. These activities ensure participants do not leave with only a general referral, but with a practical plan, named connections, and a realistic schedule for their next steps.
The focus is on connection, preparation, follow-through, and documentation — helping each participant understand where they are going, who they are meeting, what to bring, what to ask, and how that step connects to their employment, education, or training goals. Documentation makes the work billable. Preparation makes it stick. Named connections help people thrive in the first 72 hours. Continuation makes it last.
$29 - $32 per hour