Organization Description Stonewall Alliance Center supports the LGBT community. The Stonewall Alliance of Chico is committed to creating an accepting environment for members of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Queer, Questioning, and Ally community (LGBTIQQA) that is open, safe, and inclusive for all people. We provide information, advocacy, referrals, and support. The Stonewall Alliance Center strives to unite and strengthen individuals and the community through coordination of community events, activities, and discussions.
Program Information BSW/MSW Foundation Year Placements: Primarily macro based with efforts focused on community planning/events, outreach & education and some PR duties.
What student interns will gain from working with Stonewall Counseling Program (MSW Concentration Year placements):
- Significant experience working with individuals with a wide variety of identities within the LGBT*QIA+ community
- A great deal of experience doing counseling with Transgender, Non-binary and Gender-nonconforming clients
- Training and education on how to both be an ally and provide supportive and competent counseling to the LGBT*QIA+ Population
- Training and education on terminology, and the social, political, historical, structural and societal challenges that the LGBTQIA+ population faces
- Experience working with adults as well as teens and their parents or guardians
- Experience working with trauma, anxiety, depression, gender dysphoria, life transitions, grief, relationship challenges, family conflict and more
- Practice working with intersecting oppressions and supporting client with the intersectionality of their identities
- Increasing awareness of the intersectionality of the oppressions and privileges of your own identity and how that impacts therapeutic relationships
- Individual and/or group supervision with a clinical supervisor who has training and experience in a variety of modalities, including Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- A supportive circle of fellow trainees/associates to work with and learn from
- Education on the local resources, support groups, advocacy services and other services available to the LGBTQIA+ community & practice connecting clients to these services
- Education on the local resources available to low-income communities including housing, food access and job access & practice connecting clients to these services
- Practice providing short-term counseling
- Practice helping people seek out, and connect with long-term counseling services if that is what they are needing
- Flexible scheduling for seeing clients, ability to work the traineeship around your school and work schedules