This is a paid internship

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is seeking a masters level social work, clinical counseling, or marriage and family therapy student for late spring or fall of 2024 that works under the close supervision of an independently licensed counselor or social worker, providing services to meet the individualized mental health needs of the children and families served. Performs a variety of functions in multiple settings, displaying an understanding of family dynamics, cultural preferences, and community environments. Delivers services to client and/or any other individual who will assist in the client’s mental health treatment.

If you are interested in an internship for Winter of 2025, a post will become available in fall of 2024.

Direct Client Service

• Conducts agency based as well as community-based individual, group, and family therapy. Develops treatment plans, formulates, and facilitates intervention objectives to meet child’s and family’s needs.
• Evaluates progress of each client, while providing coordination and/or assistance in crisis management and stabilization as needed.
• Provides a comprehensive and complete diagnostic assessment of each child referred for mental health service, which includes a conceptual and clinically significant behavioral or psychological picture.
• Makes specific efforts to incorporate an awareness of culturally diverse populations through an understanding of the nuances of an individual and family’s cultural frame of reference.

Administration

• Completes all required documentation including but not limited to progress notes, service plans, discharge summaries, and other reports as required.

Internal and External Collaboration

• Consults and collaborates with internal as well as external resources on behalf of the client and family.
• Develops and maintains a working knowledge of community resources. Maintains updated information regarding juvenile justice, human services, health, mental health, legal and educational/vocational systems of care.
• Attends routine supervision.

Quality Assurance and Effectiveness

• Delivers interventions based on best practice models.
• Attends agency trainings or professional seminars/conferences as required or necessary in order to increase professional knowledge and skill base.

Minimum Education, Experience and Other Skill Requirements:

This position requires current enrollment in a Master’s degree program in Social Work, Counseling, or related field at an accredited college or university. Certification (CT or SWT) required.

Culture:

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is Greater Cincinnati’s most prolific non-profit specializing in education, behavioral and therapeutic health services and autism services for vulnerable, at-risk youth, their families, and caregivers.

Best Point Education & Behavioral Health is proud to embrace our ideals of an equal opportunity workplace by actions as well as our words. We lead our community with respect and tolerance, internally and externally, and we expect our employees to embrace this ideal and express it in their day-to-day interactions.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against, based on age, race, gender, color, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran status, disability or any other protected category.