Tabitha Lievanos

• Plans, assigns, instructs, supervises, and evaluates the work of subordinate staff.
• Provides facility and program orientation for new staff and youth.
• Counsels youth regarding individual and family, personal, social, or other behavioral issues or concerns.
• Recognizes youth disabilities, reports observations, seeks and implements appropriate services, and provides feedback.
• Interview youth in order to obtain information.
• Coordinates and supervises the work activities, recreation, and personal hygiene needs of youth, and their conduct in a group living situation.
• Plans, organizes, and oversees group activities and work assignments in custodial and noncustodial settings.
• Promotes, models, and oversees pro-social behaviors and programs.
• Facilitates and oversees evidence-based and best practice programs, assessments, and interventions.
• Maintains a trauma-informed approach to youth interactions.
• Transports youth to various facilities, to and from court, and other locations outside the facilities as instructed.
• Restrains individuals for arrest and/or detention.
• May physically intervene in altercations among youth when reasonable and necessary and respond to other situations within the facilities.
• Maintains security of assigned areas.
• Observe and prepares complex, clear, and concise written reports concerning the youths’ attitudes, behaviors, adjustments or to memorialize other important situations.
• Interacts with parents of youth and the public.
• Attends conferences and training sessions.
• Serves as Lead Security Officer for the Juvenile Court.
• Provide oversight and support for subordinate staff who maintain caseloads and maintain a caseload of facility youth including assessing their individual needs and providing appropriate evidence-based or best practice services.

Counsels youth regarding individual and family, personal, social, or other behavioral issues or concerns.

• Recognizes youth disabilities, reports observations, and seeks and implements appropriate services.

• Provides orientation to explain the purpose, rules, and program elements of the facility.

• Supervises the health and personal hygiene needs and the youth’s conduct in group living situations.

• Plans, organizes, and oversees group activities and work assignments in custodial and noncustodial settings.

• Interview youth to obtain information.

• Promotes, models, and oversees pro-social behaviors and programs.

• Facilitates evidence-based and best practice programs, assessments, and interventions.

• Maintains a trauma-informed, approach to youth interactions.

• Transports youth to various facilities, to and from court and other locations outside the facilities as instructed.

• May physically intervene in altercations among youth when reasonable and necessary and respond to other situations within the facilities.

• Restrains individuals for arrest and/or detention.

• Maintains the security of assigned areas; operates security doors and gates.

• Ensures only authorized visitors are allowed to visit detained youth; searches all packages brought to detained youth.

• Collects, records, inventories, maintains, and releases all private property of detained youth.

• Communicates professionally both orally and in writing with probation youth, their families, community groups, courts, and others.

• Establishes and maintains effective working relationships with courts, law enforcement agencies, community groups, and others, and with probation youth and their families from a variety of ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds.

• Writes reports concerning youth’s attitudes, behavior, and adjustment.

• Obtains urine samples from like-gender detainees.

• Attends staff conferences and training sessions.

• Interacts with parents of detained youth and the public.

• May maintain a caseload of facility youth including assessing their individual needs and providing appropriate evidence-based, or best practice services.