EA Family Services

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Organization Description

Since 1981, the nonprofit foster family agency, Environmental Alternatives, has been doing its part in Northern California, providing nuturing homes with love to match with foster children. Our social workers are matched with a maximum of 15 children, visiting the kids and their foster parents weekly. In addition to placement with individual families, Environmental Alternatives operates several six-bed group homes and a 30 bed group home, as well as offering transitional rental housing for youth aged 18-24, who have aged out of foster care.

Program Information

The student intern will have the opportunity:

  • Develop knoweldge of law and ethics standards, rules, regulations, and expectations surrounding confidentiality with other agencies/organizations and HIPAA compliance.
  • Develop clinical assessment skills and development/review of therapeutic treatment plans, individual needs and service plans, and individual crisis management plans.
  • Observe, create, co-lead, and lead therapeutic rehabilitation groups as well as provide individual rehabilitation services to youth in short-term residential therapeutic programs
  • Case management and community connections, participation in Child & Family Team meetings, and client advocacy
  • Lean fundamentals of service documentation to meet MediCal requirements, including intake, assessment, and ongoing service provision
  • Develop skills and ability to provide consistency and set behavioral limits through trauma informed and relationship-based interventions

The student intern should:

  • Have the ability to be flexible, organized, and able to re-prioritize needs of clients in a structured environment that may become unpredictable at times
  • Have the ability to practice emotional competency, self-regulation skills, and effectively manage their own biases and emotional response to youth in care
  • Demonstrate professional social work roles and boundaries, and professional demeanor in behavior, appearance and communication
  • Knowledge and respect for clients' diversity such as age, class, color, culture, disability, ethnicity, immigration status, political ideology, race, religion, sex, and SOGIE
  • Willingness to engage in self-reflection, ask questions, and give and receive feedback to and from others
Health & Safety
  • The population of clients in care may engage in verbally and physically aggressive outbursts toward adults and other clients 
  • May be exposed to varying degrees of behaviors consistent with youth with SED; encopresis/enuresis, trauma re-enactment, behavioral/emotional outbursts, AWOL, self-harm, defiance, etc.
  • May be required to transport clients to/from appointments, school, visitation, as well as potentially supervise visitation as ordered by the court
  • This is a 24/7 facility. Students may be required to work non-traditional hours, help with child care and facility activities as assigned, food purchase and preparation, house cleaning/maintenance, and clerical activities
Additional requirements and/or considerations
  • Background Check (e.g. fingerprinting/livescan, driving record)
  • Must be 18 or older
Address 
756 East Avenue
Chico, CA 95926
United States
Program(s) 
Social Work
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