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Frannie Peabody Center

Website: https://peabodycenter.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: FPC offers primary case management services to people living with HIV/AIDS in York and Cumberland Counties. We provide referrals, care coordination, support and advocacy to clients. Student learning opportunities: Case management, Advocacy, Assessments, Community education, case documentation, conflict resolution, group work. Facility is handicapped accessible. Candidates must be open to working with a very diverse client population and understand or be willing to learn about HIV/AIDS and have a level of comfort talking about sexual practices and sexual health.
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Frenchtown Community Policing

Website: https://www.westbrookmaine.com/328/Frenchtown-Community-Policing-Office
Location: Westbrook,
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Description: Work as a liaison between the police and various community members & troubleshoot any neighborhood concerns. Working with clients in crisis, riding with law enforcement on calls, plan community events, establish curriculum for community classes. Work to improve quality of life for all residents and minimize calls for services.
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Gateway Community Industries

Website: https://ghv.org/
Location: Kingston,
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Description: One of the leading independent, not-for-profit vocational rehabilitation and training centers for people with mental and/or physical disabilities.
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Gateway Community Services

Website: http://www.gatewaycommunityservice.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: Gateway Community Services provides outpatient individual counseling for adults. The MSW Intern will provide individual counseling to adults without health insurance and will also co-facilitate group counseling sessions with a staff clinician. Serving refugees, asylum seekers, and other immigrants with a mental health diagnosing. Currently serving adults, but will soon be expanding to include children. Learning opportunities: Assessments, Individual Counseling, Case Documentation, Group work.
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Goodwill NNE

Website: https://goodwillnne.org/
Location: Gorham,
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Description: Goodwill Northern New England is a nonprofit social enterprise that creates jobs, delivers needed services for people with diverse challenges, uses environmentally friendly products and processes – all while earning revenue to pay for and expand innovative workforce services in all three states. Goodwill NNE operates retail stores, health care and cleaning services which help fund the innovative workforce programs that empower individuals and families to find personal stability through work. Our mission is to enable persons with diverse challenges to achieve personal stability and community engagement.
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Greater Portland Health

Website: http://www.greaterportlandhealth.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: Outreach Internship, Case Management Internship. Case Management: Working with the Preble Street Team that does outreach to the homeless population for health care. Outreach: working at the Brick Hill Office in South Portland. Case management, advocacy, community organizing. They are willing to work with students with little experience.
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Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries

Website: https://gwimwaterbury.org/
Location: Waterbury,
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Description: Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries, Inc. has been in existence for over 80 years—since 1933. Our roots can be traced back to the Waterbury Area Council of Churches. In all of those 80 years, our mission has remained the same: to minister to the poor, disadvantaged and homeless of the Greater Waterbury area by seeing to their basic human needs, advocating for social justice and mentoring our friends in need, toward a path of self-efficiency.
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Habitat for Humanity

Website: http://www.habitatportlandme.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: "We partner with qualifying families to build houses for them as well as other qualifying families. We serve low income families. Habitat for Humanity is funded by grants, private donations, corporate and small business donations & community fundraisers."
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Hannahville Department of Health and Human Services: Behavioral Health

Website: http://www.hannahville.net/services/hannahville-department-of-health-and-human-services-business-office/
Location: Wilson,
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Description: Develops, manages, and delivers high quality integrated behavioral health and consultative services that are responsive to the needs of the community.
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High Point

Website: http://www.hptc.org/
Location: Taunton,
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Description: High Point’s mission is to prevent and treat substance use disorders and mental illness. Our goal is to help individuals and families achieve personal change and improve their quality of life.
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Hope Acts – Hope House

Website: https://hopeacts.org
Location: Portland,
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Description: Hope Acts provides transitional housing for asylum-seekers new to the Greater Portland area. We also offer immigrants a myriad of services, including English language classes, mentoring and case management — all geared to address immediate needs and facilitate successful transitions into permanent housing, jobs and well-being. Hope House, located in Portland’s Parkside neighborhood, provides housing for 13 adult asylum-seekers. Our community space at Hope House the site for our Hope House English Language Program (HHELP) and other programming.
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Hope Acts & HHELP (Hope House English Language Program)

Website: https://hopeacts.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: Hope house is an apartment building with transitional housing for single, adult asylum seekers. Hope House provides programming for the residents, including ESOL classes, case management, cultural orientation and community building. The HHELP program is a school for ESOL learners that focuses on oral language skills.
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