Intern - Beacon Drop-In Center

Job description

The Beacon Master’s Intern engages clients in the activities of the Beacon Drop-In Center including individual and group activities with the goals of increasing active community involvement and building skills and abilities. Provides individual skill building services around social communication, coping and problem solving, self-care, symptom self-management, and community integration. Facilitates planned or unplanned milieu-based interventions intended to result in improving or maintaining the client’s ability to function in a variety of interpersonal situations. Helps to educate staff and clients about the recovery model. Correctly documents services provided using agency documentation system. The Beacon Master’s Intern will offer and exemplify hope, support, and recovery-based services. They will provide client-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction disorders utilizing a harm reduction approach. Weekly supervision with a LCSW will be provided, as well as project supervision from the Beacon Team Leader. The Beacon Master’s Intern will receive two weeks of New Staff Orientation traini...