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The Center for Youth and Family Solutions is a proud partner with over 14 colleges and universities to offer internships in multiple areas of study. We greatly value the opportunity to provide a learning environment for students to gain hands-on experience in their chosen field. We offer internships in our human services programs and administrative departments for those working toward an associate, Bachelor’s, or Master’s degree. We have opportunities in all of our service locations throughout Central Illinois.
The Center for Youth & Family Solutions’ Behavioral Health programs offer professional counseling and therapy services to individual youth & adults, couples, and families to address issues related to mental, emotional, and relationship health; treatment of the impact of trauma; and improving the lives of our clients. Our philosophy is strengths-based, trauma-informed, and eco-systemic. Our clientele varies by location but generally includes youth and families involved in other CYFS programming (e.g. foster care, intact family, etc.), clients referred by other service providers (e.g. DCFS, other child welfare entities, governmental entities, etc.), and community residents seeking services independently.
Our program offers clinical internships/practicum placements to those enrolled in a Master’s program in Counseling, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, or a related field and who need to fulfill the requirements of a clinical internship/practicum placement. Students are supervised by licensed clinical field supervisors and provided formal weekly individual supervision and group supervision (in most offices).
Duties of interns include, but are not limited to:
Services may be provided on an outreach basis and may require some limited reimbursed travel. Services may be provided via video. The position requires achieving certification on the Illinois Medicaid-Comprehensive Assessment of Needs and Strengths (IM+CANS) which will be expected within the first few weeks of placement.
The qualifications and skills required for an internship with the Behavioral Health program include:
Other requirements include:
Interns will be compensated based on provided and documented income-producing activities. For every hour of billable activity that is documented correctly, interns will be compensated $25.00.
*Compensation will not apply to students who are placed with our agency through a paid arrangement with a university.
The Center for Youth and Family Solutions Child Welfare and Youth, Family, and Community Outreach Programs offer applied learning unpaid internship experiences that complement the internship requirement for many Social Work, and other related fields of study.
In addition, our Communications, IT, Accounting and Human Resources Departments also at times will accept internship applications.
For more information on Internship Opportunities, contact MaggieLin Detwiler, Training Specialist & Internship Coordinator at 815-223-4007 or mdetwiler@cyfsolutions.org or complete the application form below.
If you are interested in applying for an internship position, please complete the below Internship Application.
