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Shalom House

Website: https://www.shalomhouseinc.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: Shalom House helps hundreds of people with serious mental illness each year by providing an array of community-based mental health services and a choice of affordable quality housing where people can escape the stress of homelessness, hunger, and isolation. Serving male and female clients aged 18+ who have a mental health diagnosis and sometimes substance abuse. Student Learning Opportunities: Case management, program evaluation, advocacy, assessments, community education, individual counseling, case documentation, milieu management, family work, conflict resolution, group work.
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Sierra Club of Maine Climate Action Team

Website: https://www.sierraclub.org/maine/maine-climate-action-teams
Location: Portland,
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Description: Sierra Club Maine created the Climate Action Teams to address local initiatives in providing solutions to climate change. It is the mission of the Climate Action Team Program to help communities across Maine reduce their use of fossil fuels, thus reducing the amount of greenhouse gases going into our atmosphere. Learning opportunities: Program development, Program evaluation, Advocacy, Community Organizing, Legislative Advocacy, Conflict Resolution, Group work. Student needs a vehicle, mileage reimbursable. Additional Sites in several Maine towns.
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SMART Child and Family Services

Website: http://www.smartcfs.org/
Location: Winham,
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Description: Targeted Case Management, Treatment Foster Care, Home and Community Based Treatment, Outpatient mental health, Substance abuse programs. SMART works with adults, children, families and couples. Student learning opportunities: case management, program development, program evaluation, advocacy, assessments, community education, individual counseling, case documentation, family work, conflict resolution, group work.
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Somerset County Department of Social Services

Website: http://dhr.maryland.gov/local-offices/somerset-county/
Location: Princess Ann,
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Description: The Maryland Department of Human Services (DHS) is the state’s primary social service provider, serving over one million people annually. The Department, through its 24 local departments of social services, aggressively pursues opportunities to assist people in economic need, provide preventive services, and protect vulnerable children and adults in each of Maryland’s 23 counties and Baltimore City.
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South Portland Housing Authority

Website: http://www.spha.net/
Location: South Portland,
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Description: SPHA provides housing for approximately 800 residents. Approximately 60% of those residents elderly, age 65 or older, many are handicapped or disabled and some are section 8 housing for individuals and families needing housing assistance until they are ready to live independently.
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South Portland School Department – Mahoney Middle School

Website: http://mahoney.spsd.org/
Location: South Portland,
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Description: South Portland Public School servings grades 6-8. Approximately 300 students.
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South Portland School Department – Skillin Elementarty School

Website: https://sites.google.com/site/waldotskillinschool/
Location: South Portland,
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Description: Waldo T. Skillin Elementary School is a public school located in South Portland, ME. It has 385 students in grades PK, K-5.
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Southern Maine Agency on Aging Resources & Support Department

Website: https://www.smaaa.org/resources/answers.html
Location: Scarborough,
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Description: Resource Specialists provide resource and assistance to seniors, adults with disabilities and caregivers who need help and support. On-going assistance with finding housing, applying for income maintenance and for entitlement programs and linkage to helpful social service programs. The Mission of SMAAA is to improve the physical, social, emotional and economic well-being of older adults in southern Maine. Learning opportunities include: advocacy, community organizing, community education, and case documentation.
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Southern Maine Health Care

Website: https://mainehealth.org/southern-maine-health-care/locations/sanford
Location: Sanford,
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Description: Acute care, skilled care, long term care from birth to death. Student will have opportunities to learn how to complete assessments, one on one interviews. Family interventions, discharge planning, connecting patients to resources and building relationships with resources, working in a team approach, crisis management. Social services provides service to inpatients, outpatients, and employees to address psychosocial needs such as: prenatal and postpartum depression, coping with diagnosis, and life changing events.
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Spring Harbor Adult Inpatient Psychiatry

Website: https://mainehealth.org/spring-harbor-hospital/services/adult-inpatient
Location: Westbrook,
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Description: Spring Harbor Hospital has two adult 24-bed inpatient psychiatric units (2 East and 2 West) that provide social work/clinical counseling services to individuals struggling with mental health and substance abuse/dependence issues. Typical responsibilities for the student are: perform psychosocial assessments; involve families in treatment; involve outpatient providers in treatment; develop appropriate discharge plans; develop focal treatment plans; meet with patients individually; facilitate groups.
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Spring Harbor Child & Adolescent Inpatient Psychiatry

Website: https://mainehealth.org/spring-harbor-hospital/services/child-adolescent-inpatient-services
Location: Westbrook,
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Description: Spring Harbor Hospital provides inpatient psychiatric services for children and adolescents. The children's unit, with 12 beds, accepts children aged 4 to 13 years old. Adolescents (13-20 years old) are separated by gender into one of two 14-bed units Children and adolescents are admitted for a variety of mental health issues that severely impact their well-being and ability to function. Student will have the opportunity to be part of a multidisciplinary team. They will do short term work with patients that includes assessments, discharge planning, family work, group work.
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Spurwink

Website: https://spurwink.org/
Location: Portland,
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Description: Spurwink Services is a nationally accredited non-profit organization that provides a broad range of mental health and educational services for children, adolescents, adults and families. Applicants are encouraged to review the website prior to meeting with the Director in order to have a sense of the different opportunities. Students will be informed of the options at the time of the interview.
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St. Andrews Village

Website: http://www.standrewsvillage.com/
Location: Boothbay Harbor,
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Description: The Social Services Department at St. Andrews Village is responsible for a wide range of tasks in a variety of treatment and intervention modalities. Students will integrate completely with the organizational care team at this multi-level care facility, including skilled nursing and rehabilitative care, Long-term nursing care, and memory care units.
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St. Mary’s Hospital Community Clinical Services Outpatient Counseling Services

Website: https://www.stmarysmaine.com/departments-services/mental-health-detox/community-clinical-services-outpatient-counseling-services
Location: Lewiston,
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Description: We offer a full menu of services in the areas of mental health and substance abuse treatment provided by a staff of fully licensed clinical and professional counselors and licensed clinical social workers. We also host a number of therapeutic groups which focus on use of art as a coping skill, support in ‘de-cluttering’, parenting, learning coping skills through literature and ‘aftercare’ or on-going support after an Intensive Outpatient Program.
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St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders

Website: https://www.stmarysmaine.com/departments-services/cancer-and-blood-disorders/cancer-and-blood-disorders
Location: Lewiston,
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Description: We at CCBD understand that fighting cancer requires a team effort. Our program is led by specially trained medical oncologist/hematologist physicians and surgeons and supported by oncology trained Registered Nurses, pharmacists, physical therapists, nutritionists, and dedicated oncology social workers.
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Stephens Memorial Hospital Oxford Hills Home Health

Website: https://mainehealth.org/western-maine-health
Location: Norway,
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Description: Opportunities in hospital, home and school based health care. Acute care hospital with IP beds of 35, provide services to a wide variety of people from newborn to elderly. Social work department is one full time MSW, practice approach is an interface between strengths based and medical model. Services are between strengths based and medical. Services are also provided to home health clients by this department.
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