Senior Field1
2015 edition
Revised October 2014
Alive Hospice- Grief Support
1710 Patterson Street
Nashville, TN 37203
963-4732
Karen Nash, Director of Grief Center,
Alive Hospice provides respite, physical, emotional, social, and spiritual support to terminally ill patients and their families regardless of ability to pay. Services are provided to patients with a prognosis of six to seven months or less by a team of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains, and volunteers. Alive-Hospice also offers individual counseling and bereavement support groups to anyone who is experiencing the loss of a loved one.
Avalon Hospice
2525 Perimeter Place Dr.
Nashville, TN 37214
(615) 889-5995
Sarah Adams, MSW, 615-450-3246,
Avalon Hospice provides support to patients at end of life. The intern would be experiencing personal one-on-one interaction with the hospice patients. Participating in life review with hospice patients. The intern will also be experiencing being with patients in a medical setting- both in homes and facilities. The intern would also be under weekly supervision by a MSW.
The intern must be able to travel by car in order to get to visits in homes, LTC, or assisted living facilities.
American Cancer Society
Mid-South Division, Inc.
2000 Charlotte Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
874-2004
Jennifer Broocks, MSW, Field Instructor,
The purpose of the Mid-South Division Social Work Internship Program is to provide the intern with hands-on experience in the activities of a non- profit agency and it provides in-depth knowledge of the American Cancer Society’s efforts in health initiatives, volunteer involvement and community outreach. To develop an understanding of social work practice at the BSW/MSW level within the context of the American Cancer Society organizational structure, including further development in the community context, assessment implementation, collaboration, and the promotion of diversity within social work relationships.
Under the supervision of a Patient Advocate, the intern will be involved in numerous activities that facilitate the development of community resources to aid cancer patients and their families. Other responsibilities of the social work student will include speaking with cancer patients and family members who contact ACS to receive resources information and assistance. The student intern will assist health care providers in identifying services and resources for cancer patients and will routinely contact patients for follow-up information regarding our services and assess needs of patients for any additional assistance that may be needed.
Amerigroup
Myamerigroup.com
22 Century Blvd., Suite 310
Nashville, TN 37214
866-840-4991
ColleenReese- Field Instructor,
AMERIGROUP Community Care is dedicated to the TennCare program that covers mothers and children eligible for Medicaid’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and people with long-term illnesses and disabilities eligible for Medicaid’s Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. AMERIGROUP began operations in April 2007. Our current service area is Middle Tennessee.
Behavior Treatment Providers
Bipbtp.com
531 Gallatin Pike S.
Madison, TN 37115
615-668-2229 (cell)
Kenny Baker, LADAC, MSW,
BTP is an approve offender supervision provider for Davidson County General Sessions and Criminal Courts in Nashville, TN. BTP operates the Magdalene Prostitution Solicitation School for Metropolitan Davidson County. BTP utilizes behavioral management and behavioral contingency methods in the supervision of offender groups. Programs include domestic violence, anger management, alcohol and drug offender supervision, and DUI assessments.
Bethany Christian Services
Bethany.org
220 Athens Way Suit 405
Nashville, TN 37228
615-242-0909
Rebecca Eatman,LSW , 615-242-0909
This is a Social service agency providing services that include pregnancy counseling, domestic and includes a variety of populations (couples, single, individuals, teenagers, middle-aged adults, and all ethnicities and social classes). The agency specializes in pregnancy, adoption, and abortion alternative counseling. Students will assist in:
- Data entry, coordinating events, and providing assistance to volunteers.
- They will have the opportunity to shadow a master’s level worker in the field.
Big Brother Big Sisters
Mentorakid.org
1704 Charlotte Ave. Suit130
Nashville, TN 37203
(615) 329-9191
Anne Gallo, MSSW- Field Instructor, 615-329-9191
Our mission is to make a positive difference in the lives of children in need and to assist them in achieving their highest potential by facilitating a professionally supported one-on-one mentoring relationship with a committed volunteer.
Big Brothers Big Sisters helps vulnerable children beat the odds. The organization depends on donations to help recruit volunteers and reach more children. Big Brothers Big Sisters is proven to improve children’s odds for succeeding in school, behaving nonviolently, avoiding drugs and alcohol, and breaking negative cycles. Located in Nashville and providing services to Davidson County and the contiguous counties. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Middle Tennessee served about 2,250 children in 2008.
Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.
21 White Bridge Road
Nashville, TN 37205
615-352-3087
Mattie Callahan, Intern Coordinator, , 615-354-6305
Catholic Social Services Department
Child Welfare
Ryan Duprey, LMFT, Coordinator of Social Services Child Welfare 615-354-9506
Nina Gilbert, LMSW, Field Instructor,
615-352-5827
CHAP is a home-based counseling program for families at risk for abuse and neglect. They also work with children who have been affected by homicide
CHAP – PLUS provides counseling for families with children who are drug affected at birth or have life threatening diseases.
Students will:
- Be in a cooperative environment allowing students to interview/investigate within all departments to learn about the agency
- Have opportunities to participate in community events such as Child Abuse Prevention poster contest, Night Out Against Crime, and Crime Victims Rights Week
- Have opportunities to attend in-service trainings including case staffing (based upon student’s schedule)
- Shadow staff during in-home client visits and during group sessions (depending upon student’s schedule)
Caring Choices: Adoption Support
Donna Thomas, MS, Department Director, , (615) 352-3087 ext. 240; Hailey Bishop, MSW,
This program offers pregnancy counseling, adoption services, and the Worth Waiting For abstinence education program.Caring Choices is a state-licensed adoption agency serving all races and religions. We place Caucasian and minority race children as well as infants with special medical needs. We also assist with many independent placements. A sliding scale helps to make adoption affordable for virtually all qualified adoptive parents. Our services are offered regardless of religious affiliation.
Students will have the opportunity to:
- Experience group preparation
- Gain direct experience working with children and parents in an adoption support group
- Participate in clinical staff meetings
- Shadow clinical staff in the field
Catholic Charities: Refugee Services Department
10 South 6th St.
Nashville, TN 37206
615-259-3567
Andrea Prince- Field Instructor, , 615-248-5990
Aaron Toran- Intern Coordinator, , 615-248-5989
Jennifer Escue, Field Instructor, , 615-760-2784
Catholic Charities is a human service organization with the mission to advocate for and provide services, which enhance and enrich the quality of life for people in need. Refugee Services seeks to offer hand-on experience working with refugees for meeting class guidelines, accreditation and graduation requirements in that students chosen field. A student working with the refugee clients will be challenged to exceed the limits of their current experience.
Three possible internships with Refugee Services are:
- Refugee Resettlement – students will have the opportunity to practice case management with individuals and families who have been classified as refugees and are starting their lives over in the US. Students will work closely with caseworkers. Activities may include transporting clients to various appointments, conducting home visits, etc.
- Refugee Youth Program – Students will work with groups of refugee students and parents to help them adjust successfully to life in the US, with an emphasis on the Metro Nashville School System. Students may work in 1 of 3 areas – After-School/School Liaison Program, Youth Mentoring Program, or Family Workshops. Students will need to be flexible with their schedule.
- Refugee Elders Program – Students will work with groups of refugees, 55 and up, to assist in their positive adjustment to the US. Activities may include following up on referrals, assistance in developing weekly lesson plans, forming community partnerships, etc.
Other internship activities might include:
- Documentation and case review
- Cultural Workshops
- Experiencing the grant writing and program evaluation process
Centennial Medical Center
tristarcentennial.com
2300 Patterson St.
Nashville, TN
Teresa Fitzgerald, MSSW, , 342-4814
JoAnne Sullivan, , 342-4631
General Hospital
TriStar Centennial Medical Center is a 657-bed comprehensive facility offering medical and surgical programs including behavioral health, 24-hour emergency, heart and vascular, imaging, neurosciences, oncology, orthopedics, pediatrics, rehabilitation, sleep disorder, and women’s services. TriStar Centennial Medical Center is home to TriStar Sarah Cannon Cancer Center at TriStar Centennial, TriStar Centennial Women’s & Children’s, TriStar Centennial Heart & Vascular Center as well as TriStar Centennial Parthenon Pavilion, one of the oldest and largest full-service psychiatric facilities in the region. Above all else, we are committed to the care and improvement of human life by caring for those we serve with integrity, compassion, a positive attitude, respect and exceptional quality.
In pursuit of our mission, we believe the following value statements are essential and timeless:
- We recognize and affirm the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual.
- We treat all those we serve with compassion and kindness.
- We act with absolute honesty, integrity and fairness in the way we conduct our business and the way we live our lives.
- We trust our colleagues as valuable members of our healthcare team and pledge to treat one another with loyalty, respect and dignity.
- Resume is needed
Centerstone
2400 White Ave.
Nashville, TN 37204
615-463-6600
April Segadi, Volunteer Coordinator, 463 -6651
, fax: 463-6603
Beth Hail, Director of School-Based Services, 615-460-4149,
Susan Langenus, (adults)
Centerstone is the nation’s largest provider of community based behavioral healthcare, offering a full range of mental health services, substance abuse treatment and related educational services in Indiana and Tennessee. In 2007, we served 69,000 individuals and families at our 120+ facilities. Centerstone exists to help individuals from all walks of life in need. Services provided are customer care center and crisis call center, mobile crisis, walk-in crisis, outpatient counseling services, psychiatric services, alcohol and drug treatment, case management services, child and family services, child and family services-school based court services, homeless services, immigrant and refugee services, residential services and respite services.
Cool Springs Christian Ministry
537 Franklin Rd.
Franklin, TN 37069
615-465-2410
Lisa Bruck, MSW, 615-812-4434,
Cool Springs Christian Ministry offers a variety of social services to different groups of need. Programs include after-school tutoring, working withpeople who need food, clothing, shelter, help with utilities, etc., small groups, and working with the elderly and people with various disabilities.
Communities In Schools of Tennessee
Anne Weber, State Director, 386-4247, 509-7640,
Warner Elementary School
626 Russell Street
Nashville, TN 37206
615-291-6395
Mariana Merritt, Site Coordinator, 615-509-9705,
Bailey STEM Magnet Middle School
2000 Greenwood Avenue
Nashville, TN 37206
Lauren Ingwersen, Intern Coordinator,
The mission of Communities In Schools is to surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life.CISTN provides students with a one-to-one relationship with a caring adult, a safe place to learn and grow, a healthy start and future, a marketable skill to use upon graduation and a chance to give back to peers and the community. CISTN also works in dropout prevention with the students. They have become the only organization proved successful in decreasing the dropout rate and increasing the timely graduation among their students.
Christian Women’s Job Corp.
128 8th Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37202
Sandy Blackman, Volunteer Recruiter/Trainer,
Maeven Mandoza, MSW, ext. 2,
Christian Women’s Job Corps of Tennessee empowers individuals to break harmful cycles caused by poverty by providing education, entering and resources. We do this through providing GED preparation classes, computer classes, job skill readiness classes, mentoring, Bible Study, and childcare programing for all participants’ children. We also believe in holistic care and provide case management, and crisis assessment, participant advocacy, and spiritual direction. At Nashville site, we serve women lining at or below the poverty line, many of whom are third and forth-generational welfare recipients.
Students will have the opportunity to:
- Basic care assessment, management, and referring
- Community resource research
- Participation with program participants in classes
- Assistance with educational assessments and substitute teaching in Bible, life, and job skills
Domestic Violence Program & Sexual Assault Services
2106 E. Main St.
Murfreesboro, TN 37130
Crisis Line: 615-896-2012
Kara Mishke, BSW, Volunteer & Community Outreach Coordinator,
615-896-7377,
The Domestic Violence Program is a non-profit organization committed to ending violence and discrimination in the lives of victims suffering the pain, fear, and shame of domestic abuse. They help those in need and to put a stop to domestic violence in the lives of families and friends in the community. They work to prevent occurrences of domestic violence between family and household members. They work to reduce the effects of domestic violence for victims by establishing a crisis line and shelter program. They workto assist victims of domestic violence in establishing themselves as independent individuals.They educate the community regarding the incidents and causes of domestic violence. They assist existing agencies in coordination of programs for victims of domestic violence. They want to involve volunteers and to raise volunteer commitment in areas of domestic violence.
background check needed
End Slavery Tennessee
50 Vantage Way Suite 255, Nashville, TN 37228
Derri Smith- Executive Director, , 615-806-6899
Lizedny De la Rosa, (pursuing MSW), 615-806-6899 ext. 20,
Our Mission is to create a slave-free Tennessee and holistically restore of human trafficking. You might have thought slavery ended after the Civil War. Think again. There are more slaves now than at any time in history! Today’s slaves are forced into labor, service or sex slavery to make money for their “owners.” End Slavery Tennessee works to provide human trafficking victims and their advocates a single point contact to in-house services and service providers that restore these survivors to wholeness. We also work to make systemic changes that create a culture of freedom in our state.
- Interns will have the opportunity to do case management for holistic aftercare of trafficking survivors.
- FBI background checks, fingerprints, and signed confidentiality and liability agreements are required for the interns.
Exchange Club Family Center
139 Thompson Lane
Nashville, TN 37211
Jennifer Drake-Croft, LCSW, Program Manager, 615-333-2644 ext. 12,
The Exchange Club Family Center is a nonprofit and works toward the prevention of child abuse. There are two primary programs at the center. The Supervised Visitation program allows parents who are not allowed to see their children unsupervised to visit in a controlled, monitored and safe environment. The Safe Exchange program serves individuals who have custody sharing arrangements but have orders of protection, a history of domestic violence, etc. that require a third party exchange of the child from one parent to another in a safe, neutral environment.
The following internship is available for seniorinternships:
- Supervised Visitation/Safe Exchange Intern: under the direction of the Program manger, an intern will assist with multiple program duties at Exchange Club Family Center. The intern will gain skills in the following areas: understanding and observing the supervised visitation/safe exchange process, learning how to obtain and enter client demographic information and understanding the intake process.
Family and Children’s Services
201 23rd Avenue North, Nashville, TN 37203
The Crisis Line
Deniece Ferguson, Volunteer/Intern Coordinator
615-724-1328
The Crisis Center provides free telephone counseling and support to anyone experiencing a crisis. Counselors can assist callers struggling with grief, depression, anxiety, domestic violence, divorce, parenting problems, addiction or serious mental illness. Many callers reach out to the Crisis Center because they are having suicidal thoughts. Our counselors are trained to de-escalate and intervene in these potentially dangerous situations.
Relative Caregivers
Emily Norse- 615-340-9725
The Relative Caregiver Program (RCP) was created by the Tennessee General Assembly to support children who are not living with their parents. The primary goal is to keep children from entering state custody. The Department of Children’s Services (DCS) implements the program. The RCP provides emergency or start-up financial assistance annually if you meet the requirements. RCP also provides material assistance (beds, refrigerator, stove, etc.) when needed.
Family Resource Centers
There are four Family Resource Centers (FRCs) located in the Metropolitan Nashville area. These centers are located in three different elementary schools, and one high school in the Metro Nashville Public School System.FRCs are one-stop shops created to meet health and human service needs for school-aged children and their families. The workers at the FRCs help families deal with the everyday issues of life–food, clothing, transportation, child-care, academic assistance, health care—whatever is needed so that children may remain in school.
Counseling Services
The first form of counseling FCS provides is family service counseling. This counseling helps families receiving TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) to overcome barriers to self-sufficiency that will allow them to end their dependence on welfare assistance.Participants address mental health, domestic violence, alcohol and drug use, learning disabilities, child behavior and health issues. The other form of counseling offered at FCS is called community based counseling. Clinical therapists with offices at FCS and other community-based locations provide low and no-cost (based on income) individual and family counseling services where they are needed most. Therapists help clients with a full range of issues from mental health issues, marriage and family counseling, to domestic violence and substance abuse.