Agency Description:

You, Inc. is a leading behavioral health and education agency serving at-risk children, adolescents and families across Worchester County since 1972. For nearly 50 years, we have committed to our founding mission-- to provide youth and families with opportunities to fulfill their potential and build a brighter future. In outpatient, residential, and home and community-based settings we deliver exceptional clinical services that address the broad spectrum of needs that youth and caregivers may face. Our programs are a reflection of our commitment to wrap-around services, behavioral health care, and thoughtful care coordination. Our outcomes consistently exceed national averages. Our mission to support healthy outcomes and bright futures for youth and families includes a commitment to comprehensive education and employment services. We believe that every student can succeed, and our programs support promising young people to complete high school and advance to higher education or vocational training that leads to self-sustaining employment.

Intern Job description
The Behavioral Health intern will be responsible for providing direct clinical care to children, adolescents, and their families, as appropriate to the program in which the clinician works. The intern will ensure that the highest-quality services are provided in compliance with performance specifications, agency policies and procedures, and regulating entities. Interns should provide services in keeping with best practices, evidence-based knowledge, and the ethics of their educational discipline. The intern should attend to risk issues, documentation of care, timeliness of documentation, professionalism, productivity, and administrative issues related to providing clinical care. 
- Developing proficiency in individual/youth and family clinical care as well as mental health, educational, developmental care, child welfare, juvenile justice systems
- Developing competency with establishing a therapeutic rapport with clients
- developing proficiency in providing direct psychotherapeutic clinical care, including risk assessment, safety planning, general comprehensive assessment, treatment planning, service delivery, case management, discharge/after-care planning. In the CSA, developing proficiency in the principles of wrap-around care and service delivery.
- Provide services that are time-effective, defined episodes of care that focus on restoration, enhancement, and/or maintenance of client's optimal level of functioning, and the alleviation or amelioration of significant symptoms impacting at least 1 area of the client's life domains. In the provision of these services, a clear treatment focus, measurable outcomes, discharge plan including identification of realistic d/c criteria. 
- The services provided should be the highest-quality clinical care to clients in keeping w/ best practice, agency standards, directives of the clinical position. Practice within the ethical guidelines of discipline; maintain privacy and HIPAA standards
- Behavioral health clinical care may be provided through outpatient services, CBHI services, DCF Support & Stabilization Services, and/or residential setting. The services may include but are limited to individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, open access & assessment, clinical consultation and/or clinical case management.
- Maintain or exceed expected number of billable, direct client hours in order to achieve number of clinical hours associated with internship and agreed upon with clinical supervisor. Achieving this caseload number will likely involve working some evening hours.
Document all clinical care in agency Electronic Health Record and in any other required data entry system, in keeping with established timeframes, best practices, through established clinical forms/documents associated w/ clinical position. Maintain other documentation particular to specific positions as needed (data associated with grants)

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