2026 School Clinical Internship

TIDES FAMILY SERVICES INC•West Warwick, RI

About The Position

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. The overall mission of Tides is to provide services and supports that allow youth to live in a community-based setting. An "Agency Without Walls" our services are delivered in homes, communities, schools...wherever our youth are. Position Summary: As a Clinical Intern, you will play a vital role in providing in-home and community strengths-based support services to clients and families within a school setting. Reporting to the Clinical Director, you will work collaboratively with integrated teams of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, perform routine assessments, and build relationships with clients and families. Your responsibilities will include maintaining crisis and trauma counseling services, building collaborations with community partners, ensuring quality service metrics are met, and serving as a liaison/advocate between the program and the community.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree – Required.
Master's level in progress
Valid driver’s license and registered/inspected vehicle – Required.
1-4 years’ experience in human services, healthcare, and other non-profit agencies.
Demonstrates a safe, strengths-based environment while continuously using everyday, behavior opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges to remain in the home and in their communities.
Capacity for behavior management utilizing counseling techniques, program structure, guidelines and crisis intervention and to use metrics to ensure accountability.
The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to satisfactorily perform essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Nice To Haves

Bilingual; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole – Preferred

Responsibilities

Provide in-home and community strengths-based support services to clients and families by addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within an expected timeframe.
Work collaboratively with integrated teams of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments and build relationships with clients and families. Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to help ensure client and family safety.
Build and sustain collaborations with community partners, including health, education, vocation, legal and family intervention providers with the goal of increasing access to services for individuals and families whose needs align with our services.
Ensure quality service metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily ECHO reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS ECHO platform or other reporting measures.
Serve as liaison/advocate between the program, community and surrounding neighbors to build partnerships.
Support activities, services and programs that uphold NASW professional boundaries and are culturally sensitive to clients and families.
Develop case reports or communication letters or other forms of contact to truancy court or other juvenile justice systems.
Attend and participate in all required program meetings including program coordinator meetings, biweekly supervision with leadership, run downs, and all staff meetings.
Coordinate activities and resources that can benefit all clients and families within TFS.
Strong crisis management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, particularly when working with youth of all ages.
Managed in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families.
Skilled in building relationships with internal team, stakeholders, clients and families, schools, law enforcement and other community resources.