Program Information Contact Updated: 2016
Program Approved for: MSW 2nd Year [X] Title IV-E [X]
Parent Agency Name:
Alameda County, Behavioral Health Care Services
Agency Name:
Early Childhood Consultation and Treatment Program
Website: http://www.acbhcs.org/internships/
Agency/Program Address: (And Mailing Address if different)
7200 Bancroft Avenue, Oakland, CA 94605
Name of Internship Contact Person
Deb Yates MSW, Program Supervisor
Contact‘s E-mail:dyates@acbhcs.org
Contact’s Phone Number:510-481-4203
Mari Coleman, MSW
510-481-4202
County Agency is in: Alameda .
Program Descriptione Early Childhood Consultation and Treatment Program (ECCTP) provides early intervention and prevention services through on-site mental health consultation and direct services to child care staff who care for children ages 0-6. The goal of mental health consultation is to promote and enhance relationships between the child, child care staff, and the child’s family to create a positive child care experience for young children. Consultants address social-emotional, behavioral, developmental, classroom, and family issues within the context of this work.
ECCTP also provides home and clinic-based dyadic parent/child and family psychotherapy for children ages 0-6 and their families. Mental health services focus on behavioral, social-emotional, and/or developmental needs that parents have in their relationship with their young children. Common themes addressed in this treatment are separation and loss, trauma, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, poverty, and homelessness. An attachment model is utilized to address these themes.
Both services are provided in a relationship-based psychodynamic model that includes collateral work with parents, individual play therapy, developmental assessments, developmental guidance, some behavioral intervention, and case management. All services are provided with a commitment to socio-cultural sensitivity. Both mental health consultation to child care and parent/child therapy focus on the rapidly changing development of the young child and how development interfaces with mental health concerns. The focus of the intern training experience is on both types of service delivery (mental health consultation to child care and parent/child therapy).
Clientele Served: Children ages 0-6 and their families and caretakers, including early care and education staff . We predominently serve children and families of color with limited socio-economic means. Trauma, immigration, poverty, and loss and separation are common themes with the families we serve.
Issues Program Addresses:See above. In addition, ECCTP addresses attachment between young children and their primary caregivers. The focus of the work is on helping adults build empathy for the young child. ECCTP addresses behavioral and developmental concerns, parenting issues, traumatic events, intergenerational abuse, and societal challenges. Through consultation, ECCTP also addresses classroom management and staff and program development.
Intern Assignments:Interns are assigned 2-3 child/parent psychotherapy cases along with a classroom to provide mental health consultation.
Intern Training & Educational Opportunities:.Interns participate in weekly staff meetings and case consultation. They receive weekly individual clinical supervision for 1 1/2 hours and twice a month individual supervision around consultation. In addition, they also participate in weekly group supervision and dydactic trainings. There are often many other trainings opportunities available to interns throughout the year.
Intern Benefits: (Include stipend, conferences, car, food, etc.)Interns are able to receive reimbursement for their work travel. Alameda County, BHCS is an eligible agency for students who receive CalSWEC funding.
Other Special Placement Procedures or Requirements (Including Dates of Internship, Special Application Forms and Deadlines):Interns need to complete a County application process. This is timely so often begins in the summer prior to the internship starting. Typical start date is Sept.
Keywords:
2nd-Year MSW, mental health, play therapy, family therapy, children, trauma, Immigration