2025/2026 School Clinical Internship

Description

Tides Family Services is a nonprofit organization that is committed to providing comprehensive support and resources to children, adolescents, and families facing various challenges. The overall mission of Tides is to provide services and supports that allow youth to live in a community-based setting. An “Agency Without Walls” our services are delivered in homes, communities, schools…wherever our youth are.

position Summary: As a Clinical Intern, you will play a vital role in providing in-home and community strengths-based support services to clients and families within a school setting. Reporting to the Clinical Director, you will work collaboratively with integrated teams of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, perform routine assessments, and build relationships with clients and families. Your responsibilities will include maintaining crisis and trauma counseling services, building collaborations with community partners, ensuring quality service metrics are met, and serving as a liaison/advocate between the program and the community.

Essential Functions:

• Provide in-home and community strengths-based support services to clients and families by addressing behaviors with targeted outcomes within an expected timeframe.
• Work collaboratively with integrated teams of caseworkers, behavioral assistants, and clinicians to develop treatment goals, provide resources, advocacy, perform routine assessments and build relationships with clients and families. Maintain crisis and trauma counseling and other services to help ensure client and family safety.
• Build and sustain collaborations with community partners, including health, education, vocation, legal and family intervention providers with the goal of increasing access to services for individuals and families whose needs align with our services.
• Ensure quality service metrics are met through ongoing analysis, case review, daily ECHO reporting, and accuracy of data entry into TFS ECHO platform or other reporting measures.
• Serve as liaison/advocate between the program, community and surrounding neighbors to build partnerships.
• Support activities, services and programs that uphold NASW professional boundaries and are culturally sensitive to clients and families.
• Develop case reports or communication letters or other forms of contact to truancy court or other juvenile justice systems.
• Attend and participate in all required program meetings including program coordinator meetings, biweekly supervision with leadership, run downs, and all staff meetings.
• Coordinate activities and resources that can benefit all clients and families within TFS.
• Strong crisis management, problem-solving, and interpersonal skills, particularly when working with youth of all ages.
• Managed in-home and community strengths-based services to clients and families.
• Skilled in building relationships with internal team, stakeholders, clients and families, schools, law enforcement and other community resources.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree – Required.
• Master’s level in progress
• Valid driver’s license and registered/inspected vehicle – Required.
• Bilingual; English, Spanish, Portuguese, Creole – Preferred

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• 1-4 years’ experience in human services, healthcare, and other non-profit agencies.
• Demonstrates a safe, strengths-based environment while continuously using everyday, behavior opportunities to teach, guide, and support youth and families with their goals and challenges to remain in the home and in their communities.
• Capacity for behavior management utilizing counseling techniques, program structure, guidelines and crisis intervention and to use metrics to ensure accountability.

The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required to satisfactorily perform essential duties. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Tides Family Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values our diverse workforce and encourages all mission driven candidates to apply. We are a PBN Best Place to Work recipient, a Safe Zone Certified Employer, and a Veteran Friendly Employer. Join our team!

Compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s experience, education, skills, and other qualifications relevant to the role, in alignment with organizational guidelines and market conditions. Candidates who are proficient in a second language may be eligible for additional compensation.

It is the policy of Tides Family Services to provide Equal Employment Opportunities to all qualified Employees and applicants for employment with regard to their race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, genetic information, veterans status or disability, consistent with objectives defined by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended, the Age Discrimination Act of 1967, as amended, and equivalent Rhode Island laws, Executive Order 11246, as amended, Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, 38 U.S.C. § 4212 of the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974, and the implementing Rules and Regulations of the Office of Federal Contract Compliance. This obligation applies to all employment practices, including recruitment, hiring, termination, training, placement, promotional opportunities, transfer, pay, benefits, and advertising.