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Mount Prospect Academy

Website: https://www.mountprospectacademy.org/
Location: Rochester,
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Description: Does the agency offer Specialization/ 2nd Year Advanced Clinical MSW practicum learning opportunities? - YES
Does the agency offer Generalist/1st Year MSW practicum learning opportunities? - NO

Description & Responsibilities:
Mount Prospect Academy - New Hampshire Community Based Services offers different community based programs: Project Connect In-Home Individual Service Option, Solid Foundations Home Based Therapeutic Services, and FAST Forward NFI. These programs operate with the goal of preventing and/or minimizing out-of-home placements and helping youth transition back to their home communities from residential care. With the right combination of supports, many youth, regardless of their presenting concerns, can remain safely in their natural environment without long term residential placement.

MPA - NH Community Based Services provides individual counseling, family counseling, group counseling, educational counseling, case management and service coordination, psychoeducation and parent training, substance abuse counseling and education, anger and behavioral management, trauma informed care, preparation for independent living, role modeling and applied learning in the community, pro-social community based groups, GROW curriculum, ARC Framework, trauma based treatment, Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Adventure therapy groups for latency and adolescent aged youth, and NH SAU additional service options for students.
MPA’s Community Based Services are intended to provide short term support and stabilization. As such, services provided by the PS intern and their teams should generally be focused on helping clients and their families identify and utilize long-term community supports and natural supports as well as agencies in the community. Within that framework, the PS intern role is to provide overall leadership on the case in terms of permanency and family and youth guided treatment. The PS intern is responsible for establishing clear treatment goals and clinically appropriate recommendations for treatment and interventions. The PS intern directs the activities of other team members (EG. Permanency Coaches) to ensure client and family interactions are goal oriented and clinically appropriate. The PS intern will provide case management and clinical (individual, family, group) support to children and their families.
The PS intern will perform some or all of the following services: provide clinical support for individuals and their families to overcome obstacles, identify strengths and develop support networks that will help them overcome barriers; provide support, education and guidance to assist in developing structure, routines, effective parenting skills, positive communication, safety and behavioral plans, as well as hygiene plans. Other services provided are based on individual and family needs (i.e., nutrition and meal
planning, household budgeting, etc.)

Responsibilities:
• Complete tasks associated with client intake process
• Create and update treatment plans including student and caregiver treatment goals
• Provide individual and family therapy as indicated in the treatment plan
• Provide case management, including but not limited to employment outreach, housing
outreach, acquisition of household goods and other resources, community service coordination
• Collaborate with referring contacts and other case collaterals including therapists, guidance
counselors, physicians, psychiatrists, probation officers and attorneys.
• Ensure proper filing of all documentation using Extended Reach medical records system protocol.
• Prepare for periodic treatment review meetings by completing progress reports and updated treatment plans.
• Support, coordinate, and co-facilitate groups, including prosocial recreational activities
• Provide transportation to clients and families in appropriate situations according to treatment plan goals, ie. to attend group or register for food stamps
• Attend regular office meetings, including weekly faculty meetings and case reviews
• Shadow Permanency Specialists and Permanency Coaches in various meetings, including family therapy sessions, school meetings, treatment review meetings, and case reviews
• Complete and file documentation in accordance with MPA timelines, including SOAP notes,
monthly reports, and weekly reports
• Attend supervision as requested by supervisor, at a minimum of weekly
• Complete other miscellaneous tasks to support overall functioning of designated office as
determined by supervisor

Qualifications:
• Master’s degree in progress in social work, human services, psychology or related field
• Valid driver’s license, insured transportation, ability to transport clients in personal vehicle. Position requires satisfactory completion of background and other record(s) checks.

Operates Monday through Friday 9:00am to 5:00pm

Supervisor: Senior Permanency Specialist, Clinical Supervisor
Type of Employment: At-Will, Part-Time, Unpaid
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an intern to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the intern is regularly required to talk or hear. The intern frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The intern is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The intern may rarely lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this internship include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme heat or cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate
Interns have access to MPA Employee Wellness Benefits after 90 days, which include reimbursement for mileage, reimbursement up to $100.00 for oil changes and car detailing, as well as self-care. Reimbursement for self-care includes $100.00 per quarter for:
- Health club and gym membership
- Yoga, meditation and other fitness classes
- Holistic alternative treatments not covered by insurance such as massage, acupuncture,
reflexology
-Copays for counseling
-Nutrition or health coaching
-Nail Salon services such as manicure and pedicure

Reimbursement for services or costs not included in the categories above may be requested. Preapproval by the Clinical Operations Director or Human Resources Manager for reimbursement for any item not on this list is required. A clear wellness benefit must be demonstrated for approval.

Additional Qualifications:
Holding a valid driver's license and insured vehicle. Ability to drive and transport clients in the community for individual counseling in the community. Mondays are required to be at placement to participate in Team Meeting and Peer Supervision. Work independently and collaboratively within a team environment, flexibility and adaptability, excellent communication, consultation with clinical supervisor, and the ability to start learning opportunities quickly within the first month.
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MSAD # 52 – Leavitt Area High School

Website: https://lahs.msad52.org/
Location: Turner,
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Description: Leavitt Area High School is a public secondary school that serves grades 9–12 in Turner, Maine. It is a regional high school and serves the communities of Turner, Leeds, and Greene and is run by Maine School Administrative District 52.
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MSAD # 52 – Tripp Middle School

Website: https://tms.msad52.org/
Location: Turner,
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Description: Tripp Middle School is a public school located in Turner, ME. It has 298 students in grades 7-8 with a student-teacher ratio of 10 to 1.
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MSAD # 6 – George E. Jack School

Website: https://gej.bonnyeagle.org/
Location: Standish,
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Description: Work includes consultation with teachers, support for teachers, support for parents, participation in PET process. Social work is practiced in an educational setting with the goal of helping children to become well-adjusted, happy, productive students. Many non-school issues arise which affect children's abilities to function. Social work interns work with both special ed and regular ed students and are appreciated by school staff.
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MSAD # 75 – Mt. Ararat Middle School

Website: http://mam.link75.org/
Location: Topsham,
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Description: Mt. Ararat Middle School provides a proficiency-based, learner-centered education for students in grades six, seven, and eight, in which a feeling of hope and engagement is fostered by clear expectations, learning from mistakes, and positive relationships.
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MSAD # 75 – Mt. Ararat Therapeutic Alternative School (TAP)

Website: http://www.mta.link75.org/our_school/departments_and_programs/special_services
Location: Topsham,
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Description: The TAP Program is designed to meet the needs of students who require an alternative to the general educational setting because of a specific diagnosis, often Autism. TAP strives to provide an environment that nurtures growth, empowerment, and friendships through support, skill building and educational challenges.
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MSAD # 75 – Woodside Elementary

Website: http://wes.link75.org/
Location: Topsham,
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Description: Woodside is a K-5 elementary school in MSAD 75 and is also home to the district’s elementary Special Programs (Programs designed to serve the needs of students with profound special needs). The student population is around 330 with a student-teacher ratio of 18:1, including students in the Special Programs.
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MSAD #6 – Edna Libby Elementary School

Website: https://ednalibby.bonnyeagle.org/
Location: Standish,
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Description: Work includes consultation with teachers, support for teachers, support for parents, participation in PET process. Social work is practiced in an educational setting with the goal of helping children to become well-adjusted, happy, productive students. Many non-school issues arise which affect children's abilities to function. Social work interns work with both special ed and regular ed students and are appreciated by school staff.
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MSAD #75 – Mt Ararat High School

Website: http://www.mta.link75.org/
Location: Topsham,
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Description: The high school has approximately 1200 students. The internship would consist of working with the special ed. population, probably in one end of the self-contained programs.
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Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest (Nara NW)

Website: https://www.naranorthwest.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: Provide education, physical and mental health services and substance abuse treatment that is culturally appropriate to American Indians, Alaska Natives and other vulnerable populations.
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NC START

Website: https://www.centerforstartservices.org/locations/north-carolina
Location: New Bern,
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Description: North Carolina Systemic, Therapeutic, Assessment, Resources and Treatment (NC START) is a statewide community crisis prevention and intervention program for individuals age 6 and above with intellectual/developmental disability and co-occurring complex behavioral and/or mental health needs. START crisis prevention and intervention services are provided through clinical systemic consultation, training, education, therapeutic respite, crisis response and therapeutic couching.
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Neighborhood Family Practice

Website: https://www.nfpmedcenter.org/
Location: Cleveland,
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Description: Community health center, family practice.
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