Internship Program 2024 - North Region

For more than 50 years Sound has been committed to providing excellent care to those we serve.  From young children to older adults, intensive outreach to insight oriented therapy, Sound has services to match the needs of our community.  With evidenced based practices and exceptionally talented team members we provide services to thousands each year at 17 outpatient sites, 4 residential facilities, nearly a dozen supported housing locations and hundreds of housing sites.  We proudly provide services in over 250 schools throughout our region.

Since 2017, Sound teams have practiced a model of care that has demonstrated efficacy for achieving recovery-based outcomes. Reaching Recovery™, developed by the Mental Health Center of Denver, is a measurement-based clinical care model that promotes consumer engagement and recovery.  This model ensures the right services at the right time and at the right intensity to match their recovery progression and inspire hope along their journey. This model also allows clinical team members to match their skills with clients needing varying levels of targeted intervention. This promotes greater satisfaction for our team members. Throughout all of Sound’s programs, children to older adults and everyone in between… evidenced based care and metric driven service delivery is a key component to the health and wellness for those we serve.

Services are organized by population and/or geographical regions.  Sound has four Regions: Central/Metro; North, East, and South.  Additionally, we have two county wide specialty teams: Forensic Services and Community Networks Program/ IDD.

Expand on your education and improve your community as an unpaid intern or unpaid practicum student with Sound!  Sound offers various mental health and substance use disorder services to clients at several locations in the North region of  the Greater Seattle area. 

Our North region consists of two locations and various different programs:

• Lake City Way - Adult Services and BHOP
• Northgate - Adult Services and Child and Family Services

Adult Service programs at Sound provide comprehensive, recovery-oriented, and evidence-based outpatient services to adults with a variety of Behavioral Health and psychosocial needs. Services include individual and group counseling, case management, medication management, crisis stabilization, integrated treatment for co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, recovery support, and health and wellness support. They are based on principles of recovery, trauma-informed care, inclusivity, and multicultural counseling. Interns will be exposed to training and learning opportunities to best understand the work in community mental health, learn about a wide range of mental health conditions, work with a diverse population, people with a documented disability, serious mental illness (SMI), and people of diverse cultural backgrounds. Interns will shadow and observe other clinicians in different roles and grow and develop their own counseling skills as they begin to work with clients to meet their needs.

Behavioral Health Outreach Program (BHOP) is an interdisciplinary clinical program serving a diverse spectrum of Residents of Seattle Housing Authority with a variety of Behavioral Health and psychosocial needs with a goal of improving health and housing stability for community members. The BHOP program's scope of supporting psychosocial stability for community members aligns with micro, meso, and macro areas of Social Work as it provides direct service to community members while collaborating with many external partners on systemic issues related to health and housing. We are part of a multi-disciplinary consortium of providers and frequently collaborate on program evaluations and systemic needs. The interdisciplinary BHOP program may interest interns who want to learn more about programs targeting social determinants of health, health equity, public health, and population health. The BHOP program often works with an interdisciplinary group of colleagues, including health and medical providers, social work staff, emergency responders, and grassroots and community organizations. BHOP Clinical Intern candidates will be successful if they have an interest in a wide range of mental health conditions (e.g., if they would like to utilize a full scope of practice), work with a diverse population, and especially older adults, people with a documented disability, SMI, and people of diverse cultural backgrounds and language abilities. Candidates should be adaptive in their ability to work in a number of environments in a community-based setting and have an interest in health equity and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Child and family services (CFS) programs at Sound provide a wide variety of high-quality and evidence-based mental health services to children, adolescents, young adults, caregivers, and families to address depression, anxiety, trauma impact, and behavior management. Services include individual, family, and group therapy, case management, advocacy, parent support and education, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management, and are provided in our offices both in person and virtually, in local schools we partner with, and in the community. Interns will be part of a multi-disciplinary team working with medical providers, community supports (including DCYF, JRA, DV advocates, and school staff), and other clinicians supporting the family to provide strengths-based, client-centered care.

Internship Requirements:

• Applicants must be currently in school program (Bachelor or Master Level)
• Six-month minimum commitment, nine months to one year preferred.
• Minimum 9-24 hours per week with a stable and reliable schedule. School vacations are not considered placement holidays, must be coordinated with your supervisor; and all time off must be pre-approved by the supervisor.

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