Joseph Petitt Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, Ca, Us

Inglewood, California, United States

• Lead a Street-based Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) to engage, assess, and develop permanent housing plans with individuals experiencing homelessness, utilizing best practices to provide intensive case management services and crisis intervention.• Collaborate with various community-based organizations to ensure appropriate service connections are obtained and provide follow-up referral/service tracking to individuals experiencing homeless living on the streets.

Los Angeles, California, United States

• Organize and implement legal clinics with Los Angeles Public Defenders Office to provide free legal services and wrap around services to the reentry population.• Collect and input data to meet contractual grant requirements. • Draft and edit publication and advocacy materials.

California, United States

• Conducted legal research and analysis to develop a 50 state database of expungement policies and procedures.• Drafted a self-directed guide to assist people with prior convictions in requesting and amending criminal records/rap sheets.• Drafted legal memos and reports as directed.• Interview TimeDone members to inform the development of guide.• Drafted and edit public education and advocacy materials.• Engaged in public speaking and attend meetings and/or conferences as identified• Centered trauma-informed principles and organizing in all work through program development, organizational practices and processes, and education efforts.

Los Angeles, California

• Developed and oversaw operational implementation procedures for Proposition 47, Proposition 64, and expugement record reclassification clinics through Los Angeles County.• Supervised legal and reentry interns providing general support services.• Developed agendas, coordinated guest speakers, and assisted in the conduct of meetings for LARRP and its subcommittees. • Attended meetings, conferences, public hearings and other functions at the Federal, State, and local levels as a means of identifying and assessing conditions that adversely affected the welfare and socioeconomic status of the reentry population.• Maintained effective relationships with the reentry community; served as liaison with various groups to coordinate activities and disseminate information regarding community groups and organizations working for special concerns of the reentry population. Assisted various agencies in researching, preparing, and disseminating information in the field of reentry, criminal justice, and alternatives to incarceration.• Researched policy issues and writing memos, fact sheets, letters and articles on reentry topics.• Educated and lobbied elected officials and staff on legislation and policy issues related to criminal justice and reentry.• Developed and maintained social media platforms, website, newsletters, announcements, and membership program.

Los Angeles, California

• Developed and oversee operational procedures for Proposition 47 and 64 events.• Developed agendas, coordinated guest speakers, and assisted in the conduct of meetings for LARRP and its subcommittees. • Researched policy issues and writing memos, fact sheets, reports, letters, and articles for LARRP.• Assisted Interim Executive Director with developing, organizing and communicating with support coalitions including grasstops, grassroots, individual advocates, and public agencies.

742 N. La Brea Street, Inglewood, Ca 90302

• Liaison for Founders and staff. • Researched policy issues and writing memos, fact sheets, reports, letters, and articles for CCM.• Assisted Interim Executive Director with developing, organizing and communicating with support coalitions including grasstops, grassroots, individual advocates, and public agencies.

South Los Angeles, Ca

• Administered antipsychotic and mood disorder medication to clients, maintain medication log for compliance with Office Division and Reentry requirements and destroy medications as needed per policy. • Conducted periodic inspections of the facility and grounds or CCTV monitoring to ensure security of facility and safety of clients. • Documented client daily assessment, incident reports, and observations. • Performed crisis intervention and communicate with supervisor as situations arise.• Facilitated group sessions with average of 10 – 15 clients.

Long Beach, Califorina

• Developed and administered Muay Thai curriculum to university students. • Organized classes to help students progress in physical skills, knowledge of rules, and mental confidence that can be applied in all aspects of their life. • Instructed 50 - 60 students in Muay Thai per semester. • Initiated and conducted intermediate classes, which provided additional classes for experienced students. • Recommended and obtained additional safety equipment, which improved quality of safety, reduction of potential injuries, and increase in confidence of students.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Conducted Internet, library and legislative research, analysis, and writing on key policy issues for the office, specific initiatives, and coalitions. • Monitored implementation of relevant new laws and policies and coordinating unified response efforts with partners. • Assisted with development of advocacy support materials for policymakers and advocacy partners, including briefing books, fact sheets, reports, letters, and information packets.• Participated on local drug policy prevention, treatment, and harm reduction commissions and coalitions and taking leadership roles within these groups when necessary. • Recommended and implemented County ordinance through harm reduction strategies to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Electronic Music Festival Task Force and the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health, Substance Abuse Prevention and Control.• Represented the Drug Policy Alliance at County Electronic Music Task Force meetings and developed and passed a County ordinance (County Code Section Chapter 11.07) that enabled electronic music festivals on County property.

Governor George Deukmejian Courthouse, Long Beach

• Assisted litigants with accurate completion of legal documents for dissolution proceedings.• Assisted attorneys with unlawful detainer trial preparation and dissolution of marriage workshops, which increased knowledge of legal proceedings with litigants that experienced intercultural hardships and language barriers. • Utilized the court’s computer database for case history summary and processed litigant screening information for statistical analysis of the courthouse. • Organized and updated access to legal documents for litigants with barriers and referred litigants to relevant departments based on their legal and cultural needs. • Set up appointments for litigants to prepare dissolution of marriage judgements. • Provided a neutral and empathetic approach in supporting litigants and their families who are dealing with social, emotional, and environmental challenges.

Greater Denver Area

• Researched, analyzed, and revised DanceSafe's educational literature on psychoactive substances for chair member, Dr. Dina Perrone, which expanded on harm reduction, United States and international statues, and legal classifications. • Performed risk assessments with laboratory analysis program for psychoactive substances with the emphasis on harm reduction.

Orange County, California

• Studied specifications in blueprints, sketches, or building plans to prepare project layout and determine dimensions and materials required. • Managed and directed diverse 10 man crew on The View project in San Pedro, CA. • Installed horizontal and vertical metal studs to frames on the Veterans Hospital addition project in Long Beach, CA.