Clinical Intern

Wayside Youth & Family Support Network • Watertown, MA

19h • $3,000 - $4,000

About The Position

Wayside Multi-Service Center (“the Multi”) is a small community-based mental health and prevention center offering a range of clinical and community wellness promotion services to children, adolescents, and families. The Multi is part of Wayside Youth & Family Support Network.
The Multi offers three different internships composed of opportunities in different programs for counseling, case management, and prevention.
Internship experience may include:
1. Clinical case management work with the Watertown Social Service Resource Program (SSRP), answering calls, and meeting with Watertown residents in need of resource navigation for a wide variety of needs, such as housing, food, financial assistance, and mental health referrals.
2. Supporting a federally funded program, Navigating to Emotional Wellness, focused on supporting youth with experiences of trauma. Work includes brief intervention with youth and their families, support groups, parenting support, and referrals for long-term support and counseling.
3. School counseling for Watertown youth through the Student Assistance Program. Interns work with middle school youth who need individual counseling and crisis intervention.
4. Supporting a state-funded program, Community Innovations, focused on substance-use prevention and harm reduction through diversion groups held at local Middle and High Schools and Boys & Girls Club.
5. Peer Leadership program with Watertown High School students as part of Watertown Youth Coalition’s work. This work represents Wayside’s mission of prevention and early intervention by offering enrichment opportunities that increase emotional resiliency and decrease risk factors such as substance misuse.
6. Planning and implementation of weekly after-school program at the local learning centers for youth ages 6 to 16 living in Watertown Public Housing.
7. Supporting Belmont Wellness Coalition, a prevention-centered group, who are focused on reducing substance misuse and addressing its many risk factors, e.g., mental health, overwhelming stress, etc. Opportunity to work with Belmont High School’s youth group, BWC’s monthly parent group, and on community-wide prevention initiatives.
This site offers interns excellent experience working in a variety of capacities with a committed group of staff. Interns should understand the nature of prevention work, be invested in community-based services and organizing, and passionate about providing support to youth and families in a variety of ways and settings. Must also be able to work independently and in a team environment, demonstrate initiative and flexibility, and have strong organizational skills.
About Wayside: Founded in 1977, Wayside Youth & Family Support Network is a non-profit, nationally accredited human service agency headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts dedicated to building strength, hope and resiliency in youth, families and our local communities. Wayside is one of Massachusetts’ most respected child and family serving agencies with 19 program locations across Central, Eastern and Northeastern Massachusetts serving more than 6,000 children, young adults and families each year.
Wayside staff and clinicians provide community trainings in schools, to mental health providers and in collaboration with community partners. Wayside is a teaching and training facility that provides graduate and undergraduate students with internships and clinical placement

Requirements

• Second year students in MSW, LMHC, or related programs. Strong first year and advanced standing students may be considered. MSW students preferred, due to licensure of available supervisors.
• Interns should understand the nature of prevention work, be invested in community-based services and organizing, and passionate about providing support to youth and families in a variety of ways and settings.
• Must also be able to work independently and in a team environment, demonstrate initiative and flexibility, and have strong organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

• Car needed: Preferred but not required.
• Language skills: Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Farsi, and additional languages an asset but not required.
• Afternoon availability (3pm-5pm) strongly preferred due to after-school client availability.

Responsibilities

• Clinical case management work with the Watertown Social Service Resource Program (SSRP), answering calls, and meeting with Watertown residents in need of resource navigation for a wide variety of needs, such as housing, food, financial assistance, and mental health referrals.
• Supporting a federally funded program, Navigating to Emotional Wellness, focused on supporting youth with experiences of trauma. Work includes brief intervention with youth and their families, support groups, parenting support, and referrals for long-term support and counseling.
• School counseling for Watertown youth through the Student Assistance Program. Interns work with middle school youth who need individual counseling and crisis intervention.
• Supporting a state-funded program, Community Innovations, focused on substance-use prevention and harm reduction through diversion groups held at local Middle and High Schools and Boys & Girls Club.
• Peer Leadership program with Watertown High School students as part of Watertown Youth Coalition’s work.
• Planning and implementation of weekly after-school program at the local learning centers for youth ages 6 to 16 living in Watertown Public Housing.
• Supporting Belmont Wellness Coalition, a prevention-centered group, who are focused on reducing substance misuse and addressing its many risk factors, e.g., mental health, overwhelming stress, etc.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern