CalAim InternAt — City Net- Sacramento County
As a social work student interning with CalAIM under Community Supports, your role would center around supporting the delivery of services that help Medi-Cal members meet their non-medical needs that affect their health and well-being, such as housing navigation, tenancy support, medically tailored meals, home adaptations, or respite care. As an intern, you will be involved in client engagement and outreach, helping contact and build rapport with community members, assisting with intake and assessments of their needs, and supporting care coordination by connecting clients to appropriate Community Supports services and resources. You could help with documentation and data entry, learning how to maintain case notes and track service plans under supervision, and observe or participate in multidisciplinary team interactions where care plans are discussed.
By the end of an internship working with CalAIM Community Supports as a social work student, you would have learned how to apply your classroom knowledge to real-world practice in a health and human services environment that focuses on whole-person care and addressing the social drivers of health. You would understand how non-medical supports, such as housing navigation, tenancy sustaining, medically tailored meals, home modifications, and other Community Supports services, fit into the Medi-Cal system and contribute to better health outcomes by reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and supporting members’ stability in the community. Throughout the internship you would gain experience engaging with individuals and families to assess their needs, learning how to communicate with clients from diverse backgrounds and build rapport while being attentive to cultural and individual differences. You would also develop skills in coordinating care by working with community providers, care managers, and multidisciplinary teams to help clients access appropriate supports and navigate complex systems, which reflects the integrated and person-centered approach embodied in CalAIM’s design.
Students will have the opportunity to shadow different staff members with client interactions and administration tasks. Students will train on HMIS and SPRITE system which are the systems City Net utilizes for documentation purposes and client engagement. City Net offers monthly trainings on case notes, goal setting, motivational interviewing, trauma informed care, encampment safety, working with SMI and SUD, etc. We offer ongoing training throughout the semester for students to succeed in their role as interns.
Students are not required to be vaccinated.