Paralegal - LEAD, CoLEAD & Familiar Faces Vital Programs | Specialty Courts Unit | Criminal Division
Agency Name: Seattle City Attorney's Office
Position / Job Title : Paralegal - LEAD, CoLEAD & Familiar Faces Vital Programs | Specialty Courts Unit | Criminal Division
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Category : Non-Attorney
Job Description: With more than 200 attorneys and professional staff, the Seattle City Attorney’s Office is one of the largest law offices in Seattle and is the third-largest public law office in the state. Our office is committed to making Seattle a safe, healthy, empowered, and thriving community for everyone. We strive to address historical injustices within the court system with self-examination and to pursue justice in Seattle with integrity, creativity, and fairness. We believe working transparently, innovatively, and in collaboration with our partners in the community is necessary to achieve outcomes that promote equity, accountability, and healing.
The Criminal Division of the Seattle City Attorney’s Office (SCAO) represents the City in prosecuting misdemeanors and is looking for a part-time paralegal to join the office. As a member of the Criminal Division’s Prosecution Support Team, you will be a key player in supporting assistant city prosecutors who provide legal coordination for LEAD, Co-LEAD and Familiar Faces Vital program clients.
About the programs:
LEAD (Let Everyone Advance with Dignity/Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion) aims to improve public health, public safety, and racial equity by providing long-term, trauma-informed, community-based case management to individuals with complex needs who face persistent challenges in connecting to community-based services and resources. Law enforcement is able to refer to LEAD in lieu of booking into jail for certain crimes. LEAD Seattle · King County – A better community-based and coordinated approach to health, safety, and equity.
CoLEAD is an adaptation of the LEAD program that was created at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. “Co” stands for both COVID and Co-Responder. CoLEAD utilizes a hotel-based model of care providing intensive case management and residential on-site support to individuals with complex behavioral health needs who commonly commit law violations or exhibit problematic behavior related to unmet behavioral health conditions. CoLEAD link
Familiar Faces/Vital provides comprehensive and integrated services to adults who are experiencing behavioral health challenges, need an intensive level of community-based support, and may be experiencing homelessness. “Familiar Faces” refers to a population defined as individuals who are frequent utilizers of a King County jail and who also have a mental health and/or substance use condition. The Vital Program - King County
Link to Application: https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/seattle/jobs/5064299/paralegal-lead-colead-familiar-faces-vital-programs-specialty-courts-unit/
Application Deadline: September 23, 2025