Location: 7200 Bancroft Ave, Ste 125D, Oakland CA
Age Group Served: 0-8
Program Description: Building Hope/Construyendo Esperanza provides home and clinic-based dyadic parent/child and family psychotherapy for children ages 0-8 and their families. Mental health services focus on parenting, behavioral, social-emotional, and/or developmental needs that parents have in their relationship with their young children. Common themes addressed in this treatment are separation and loss, trauma, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, poverty, regulation issues, and homelessness. An attachment model is utilized to address these themes.
Our services are provided through a relationship-based, strengths-focused psychodynamic model that includes collateral work with parents, individual play therapy, developmental assessments, developmental guidance, behavioral intervention, and case management.
All services are provided with a commitment to socio-cultural sensitivity. Therapy focuses on the rapidly changing development of the young child and how development interfaces with mental health concerns. Clinicians work in partnership with our Family Partner to provide family-driven care. Our Family Partner supports the needs of the families and helps caregivers improve their advocacy for their child.
Placement Period: Academic school year (Sept – May)
Program/Placement Hours: Flexible (typically 24 hours/week, 3 days a week, M-F between 8:30-6pm)
Preferred Discipline/Experience: MSW students
First or Second Year Students: Second year students only.
Supervision & Training: Building Hope practices reflective supervision which is a model that encourages self-reflection, insight, and use of self. We highly value supervision and provide consistent weekly clinical supervision. In addition, interns participate in weekly group supervision and a weekly didactic learning seminar that addresses issues relevant to children 0-21 years of age. Building Hope provides an in-depth initial training and orientation and on-going support and guidance to all interns.
Send Resume to:
Michelle Lewis, LCSW
Division Director, County Clinics CYASOC, Intern Coordinator
Alameda County Behavioral Health
7200 Bancroft Ave Ste 125-D
Oakland, CA 94605
(510) 383-5005
Michelle.Lewis@acgov.org
Application Due Date: Flexible – No deadline but earlier is better and typically fall internships are filled by April
Stipends Available: Accepted interns are eligible to apply for the ACBHD Graduate Intern Stipend Program, up to $6,000 for a minimum of 720 internship hours, awarded through a competitive process.