Internship Training Program

Internship Training Program Goal

Students will receive training, shadowing, resources and experiences to gain Bachelor’s level foundational transferable skills applicable to multiple human service settings.

Social Work Internship Training & Materials

• Agency Orientation (including HIPPA/ Policies/ Agency Mission & Vision, Cultural Competency & Bias)
• Promoting Resiliency Through Trauma Informed Care (1.5 hours)
• Cultural Healing and Historical Understanding Through a Trauma Informed Lens (4 hours)
• Clinical Documentation Training – including Ethics of Clinical Documentation (2-3 hours)
• Rapport Building and Engagement Skills Training
• Providing Therapeutic Behavioral Services Training
• Family Engagement and Positive Parenting Strategies
• Additional trainings depending on student time, availability, and interest

Shadowing Opportunities

• Access and Engagement Department – shadowing Diagnostic Assessment appointments
• Community Family Intervention Program – shadowing Treatment Providers
• Care Coordination Program – shadowing Care Coordinators
• Prep Academy (Day Treatment) Program – shadowing Adaptive Behavioral Specialists and Group Facilitators conducting therapeutic groups
• Residential Day Treatment Program – shadowing Treatment Specialists
• Prevention Program – shadow prevention groups in community school settings

Experience Opportunities

• Explore therapeutic behavioral services (TBS) interventions from provided resources and present recommendations that could be appropriate for one of the clients observed during shadowing of community based treatment providers
• Co-facilitate individual youth TBS sessions with a CFI treatment provider (Goal: to utilize interventions identified by the student that the provider deems appropriate for client)
• Support facilitation of prevention groups
• Increase comfortability in speaking with parents and developing interviewing skills by conducting structured needs assessment and service evaluation over the phone with caregivers.
• Practice clinical documentation skills; learn to write progress notes for TBS sessions that the student helps to facilitate
• Learn utilization of assessment tools: Youth Outcomes Questionnaire, Protective Factors questionnaire
• Conduct appropriate transition/termination activities if the student routinely shadows particular clients during the field practice time

Internship Training Program Goal

Students will receive training, shadowing, resources and experiences to gain Master’s level foundational transferable skills applicable to multiple social work settings.

Social Work Internship Training & Materials

• Agency Orientation (including HIPPA/ Policies/ Agency Mission & Vision, Cultural Competency & Bias)
• Promoting Resiliency Through Trauma Informed Care (1.5 hours)
• Cultural Healing and Historical Understanding Through a Trauma Informed Lens (4 hours)
• Solution Focused Therapy (4-5 hours)
• Motivational Interviewing (4-5 hours)
• Clinical Documentation Training – including Ethics of Clinical Documentation (2-3 hours)
• Additional trainings depending on student time, availability, and interest

Shadowing Opportunities

• Access and Engagement Department – shadowing Diagnostic Assessment appointments
• Outpatient Family Services – shadowing therapy sessions (individual, family and telehealth); will observe Play Therapy sessions
• Prep Academy (Day Treatment) Program – shadowing therapeutic groups
• Residential Day Treatment Program – shadowing therapeutic groups and client sessions
• Foster Care – shadowing foster care case managers
• ECMH – meet with an ECMH team member to learn more about work done within daycare centers across Franklin County (shadowing restrictions within daycare settings)

Experience Opportunities

• Explore therapeutic interventions from provided resources and present recommendations appropriate for one of the clients the student has been shadowing sessions for based on treatment goal
• Co-facilitate individual youth sessions with therapist – taking primary lead for 10-15 minutes during first co-facilitation, building to primary lead for full sessions as internship and student comfort progresses (Goal: utilize interventions identified by the student that the therapist deems appropriate for client)
• Option to co-facilitate one or more group therapy sessions
• Increase comfortability in speaking with parents and developing interviewing skills by conducting structured needs assessment and service evaluation over the phone with caregivers.
• Practice clinical documentation skills; learn to write progress notes for sessions the student helps to facilitate
• Learn utilization of assessment tools: Youth Outcomes Questionnaire, Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), Resiliency Questionnaire

Internship Training Program Goal

Students will receive training, shadowing, resources and experiences to gain transferable skills applicable to any social work setting and gain integrative skills to gain confidence in providing therapy to youth and families.

Social Work Internship Training & Materials

*indicates items not necessary if student participated in MSW 1 program w/ SVFS

• Agency Orientation (including HIPPA/ Policies/ Agency Mission & Vision, Cultural Competency & Bias) *
• Promoting Resiliency Through Trauma Informed Care (1.5 hours) *
• Cultural Healing and Historical Understanding Through a Trauma Informed Lens (4 hours) *
• Solution Focused Therapy (4-5 hours) *
• Motivational Interviewing (4-5 hours) *
• Clinical Documentation Training – including Ethics of Clinical Documentation (2-3 hours) *
• Treatment Planning & Discharge Planning
• Diagnostic Assessments
• Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (11 hours, National Child Traumatic Stress Network)
• Child Centered Play Therapy (4+ hours)
• Directive Play Therapy for Trauma work (4+ hours)
• Additional trainings depending on student time, availability, and interest

Shadowing Opportunities

• Access and Engagement Department – shadowing Diagnostic Assessment appointments
• Outpatient Family Services – shadowing therapy sessions (individual, family and telehealth); will observe Play Therapy sessions
• Prep Academy (Day Treatment) Program – shadowing therapeutic groups
• Residential Day Treatment Program – shadowing therapeutic day treatment groups and sessions
• Foster Care – shadowing foster care case managers

Experience Opportunities

• Explore therapeutic interventions from provided resources and present recommendations to supervisor appropriate for one of the clients the student has been shadowing and/or conducting sessions for based on treatment goal
• Co-facilitate then individually facilitate youth and family sessions as internship and student comfort progresses, utilizing interventions identified by the student
• Option to co-facilitate one or more group therapy sessions
• Practice clinical documentation skills; learn and practice writing progress notes and developing treatment plans and discharge planning documentation
• Learn utilization of assessment tools and facilitate the use of some assessment tools as appropriate: Youth Outcomes Questionnaire, Child Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS), Vanderbilt, Protective Factors Questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory, The Child PTSD Symptom Scale (CPSS), Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED)
• Present a client’s case to a clinical review team
• Conduct appropriate transition/termination activities with clients that the student routinely co-facilitates sessions for at the end of the student’s internship period.