INTERNSHIPS IN DIRECT CLIENT SERVICES
Foster Care/Specialized Foster Care/Adoptions Internships / Belleville Office – Team 1
120 East A Street, Belleville, IL 62220
This internship provides supervision by an MSW.
Belleville Office – Team 2
120 East A Street, Belleville, IL 62220
This internship provides supervision by an MSW. / Background check required for all internships.
Next open Belleville Team 1: Spring 2019
Next open Belleville Team 2: Fall 2018
Internship Description:Intern will receive experience working with families and children in the foster care system and the Department of Child and Family Services. The Foster Care team provides case manager for the children in care while providing support and services (i.e., therapy, parenting, legal representation, substance abuse or domestic violence treatment, and other services to help support the family’s stability).Intern will receive guidance in making sound and appropriate clinical decisions regarding the best interest and safety of youth under state ward ship. Specific duties include, but are not limited to; client interviews and assessment, monitoring and assessment of family contacts, and attendance at Court, Administrative Case Reviews, Clinical Staffings, Team Meetings. / Internship suitable for undergraduate and graduatestudents pursuing a degree in Social Work or a related field.
Reliable transportation, auto insurance, valid driver’s license, and ability to transport clients preferred.
Youth Services Internship / Regional Office Children’s Home + Aid
2133 Johnson Road, Suite 104, Granite City, IL 62040
This internship provides supervision by an LCPC.
Belleville Office
120 East A Street, Belleville, IL 62220
This internship provides supervision by an LCPC.
Alton Office
6 Crossroads Court, Alton, IL 62002
This internship provides supervision by an LCSW. / Background check required for all internships.
Next open Regional office: Fall 2018
Next open Belleville office: Spring 2019
Next open Alton office: Fall 2018
Internship Description:Intern will receive experience working with families and youth in need of support and services. Intern will receive guidance in making sound and appropriate clinical decisions regarding the best interest and safety of youth.Specific duties include, but are not limited to; client interviews and assessment, monitoring and assessment of family contacts, and attendance at Court, Administrative Case Reviews, Clinical Staffings, Team Meetings, Crisis Intervention. / Internship suitable for undergraduate and graduatestudents pursuing a degree in Social Work, Counseling, or a related field.
Reliable transportation, auto insurance, valid driver’s license, and ability to transport clients preferred.
Redeploy Illinois Internship / Regional Office Children’s Home + Aid
2133 Johnson Road, Suite 104, Granite City, IL 62040 / Background check required for all internships.
Next open Regional Office: Spring 2019
Internship Description:Intern will receive experience working with youth who are being considered for an evaluation or a commitment to the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice (IDJJ) between 13 and 18 years of age. Redeploy provides a biographical psychosocial assessment along with a psychological or mental health assessment on each youth in an attempt to identify deficits and strengths. Enrolled youth receiveintensive case management services, and have access to a caseworker 24 hours a day. Intern will receive guidance in making sound and appropriate clinical decisions regarding the best interest and safety of youth.Specific duties include, but are not limited to; client interviews and assessment, monitoring and assessment of family contacts, and attendance at Court, Administrative Case Reviews, Clinical Staffings, Team Meetings. / Internship suitable forundergraduate and graduatestudentspursuing a degree in:
  • Criminal Justice
  • Social Work
Reliable transportation, auto insurance, valid driver’s license, and ability to transport clients preferred.
Adoption Support and Preservation Internship / Regional Office Children’s Home + Aid
2133 Johnson Road, Suite 104, Granite City, IL 62040
This internship provides supervision by an LCSW.
Herrin Office
109 Lou Ann Drive, Herrin, IL 62948
This internship provides supervision by an LCPC. / Background check required for all internships.
Next open Granite City: Spring 2019
Next open Herrin: Summer 2018
Internship Description:Intern will receive experience working with families that have adopted children. Adoptive families may experience issues that differ from biologically created families in significant ways.Children served through the Adoption & Guardianship Preservation program often experience significant emotional or behavioral issues including chronic lying, stealing, aggression, eating, or sleeping disturbances, fire-setting, sexual acting out, and attachment difficulties. Children may also be experiencing loss, grief, and/or separation issues and in some cases may present with medical, organic, or neurological disabilities like Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, mood disorders, attachment disorders, and other psychiatric diagnoses.Frequently these children also experience adjustment issues related to adoption or guardianship.
Intern will work with licensed counselors to provide services that may include intensive family or individual therapy, attachment therapy, art or play therapy, respite, support groups, case management, advocacy, and crisis intervention. / Internship suitable forgraduatestudents pursuing a degree in:
  • Counseling
  • Social Work
Reliable transportation, auto insurance, valid driver’s license, and ability to transport clients preferred.
Stronger Beginnings for Families Intern / East St. Louis Office
601 James R Thompson Blvd., Building E,
East St. Louis, IL 62201 / Background check required for all internships.
Next open: Summer 2018
Internship Description:Stronger Beginnings for Families interns will obtain experience in a program that works with expectant parents and families with children under three years of age. The program builds upon family strengths and identifies and serves children and families with the greatest need in Cahokia and other portions of St. Clair County.
Home Visiting Interns will assist with assessing families, connecting them with local resources, and developing individual child and parent activities, and will accompany Home Visitors as they meet with families in the community to support healthy parent-child attachment and provide education on a variety of parenting topics.
Administrative Interns(see Administrative internships, below) / Home Visitor Internship suitable forundergraduate and graduatestudents pursuing a degree in:
  • Early Childhood Education/Special Education
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Psychology
  • Child Development
  • Family Studies
Administrative Internship suitable for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in:
  • Marketing
  • Public Administration
  • Non-Profit Management
  • Organizational Leadership

Intact Family Services Intern / Belleville Office
120 East A Street, Belleville, IL 62220
This internship provides supervision by an MSW.
Alton Office
6 Crossroads Ct, Alton, IL 62002
This internship provides supervision by a MA Counseling graduate. / Background check required for all internships.
Next open Belleville: Summer 2018
Next open Alton: Summer 2018
Internship Description:Intern works with families that have been impacted by abuse or neglect, domestic violence, mental illness, substance abuse, high conflict divorce, or education performance issues. The programs within Intact Family Services are designed to work with at-risk families by positively intervening to keep children safe so they may remain in their homes. Services include crisis intervention, educational advocacy, risk assessment, strength-based case planning; kinship care, and inclusion of community resources as part of a comprehensive range of services available to referred families. / Internship suitable for undergraduate and graduatestudents pursuing a degree in Social Work or a related field.
Reliable transportation, auto insurance, valid driver’s license, and ability to transport clients preferred.
Child Care Resource + Referral (CCR+R) / Regional Office Children’s Home + Aid
2133 Johnson Road, Suite 104, Granite City, IL 62040 / Background check required for all internships.
Next open: Summer 2018
Internship Description:Early Childhood Care + Education is one of Children’s Home + Aid’s largest programs, providing a comprehensive array of services including Child Care Resource and Referral and Child Care Assistance. Intern will assist with facilitating and developing professional development for educators, observing children or educators, expanding their knowledge of early childhood best practices, promoting career development pathways from credentials to degrees, providing technical assistance with DCFS licensing or ExceleRate IL. Skills needed: customer service and computer. / Internship suitable for associates and undergraduate students pursuing a degree in:
  • Early Childhood
  • Early Childhood or Elementary Special Education
  • Child Development
  • Family Studies
Ability to operate standard office equipment such as personal computer with Microsoft Office programs, copier, multi-line telephone, fax machine is required.
ADMINISTRATION RELATED INTERNSHIPS
Child Care Assistance Program (CCAP) Administrative Internship / Regional Office Children’s Home + Aid
2133 Johnson Road, Suite 104, Granite City, IL 62040 / Background check required for all internships.
Next open: Summer 2018
Internship Description:Early Childhood Care + Education is one of Children’s Home + Aid’s largest programs, providing a comprehensive array of services including Child Care Resource and Referral and Child Care Assistance. Intern will assist with administrative duties including (but not limited to) data entry, filing, phone calls and research. Skills needed: customer service and computer. / Internship suitable for associates and undergraduate students pursuing a degree in:
  • Administration
  • Business/Marketing
Ability to operate standard office equipment such as personal computer with Microsoft Office programs, copier, multi-line telephone, fax machine is required.
Stronger Beginnings for Families Intern / East St. Louis Office
601 James R Thompson Blvd., Building E,
East St. Louis, IL 62201 / Background check required for all internships.
Next open: Summer 2018
Internship Description:Stronger Beginnings for Families interns will obtain experience in a program that works with expectant parents and families with children under three years of age. The program builds upon family strengths and identifies and serves children and families with the greatest need in Cahokia and other portions of St. Clair County.
Home Visiting Interns(see internships in Direct Service, above)
Administrative Interns will work with the program supervisor, assisting with evaluating and updating current marketing materials, developing key messages for the public, and creating presentation materials. / Home Visitor Internship suitable for undergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in:
  • Early Childhood Education
  • Social Work
  • Sociology
  • Psychology
Administrative Internship suitable forundergraduate and graduate students pursuing a degree in:
  • Marketing
  • Fund Development
  • Public Administration

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