Coaching Internship Doc Wayne Youth Services

ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BECOMING INVOLVED IN A GROWING ENTREPRENEURIAL ENVIRONMENT? DOC WAYNE YOUTH SERVICES IS LOOKING FOR A YOUTH COACH WHO IS INTERESTED IN GAINING EXPOSURE TO A SMALL NON-PROFIT THAT HAS SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.

Position Description: • Perform as Coaching Intern working along side a mental health clinician for Chalk Talk sports-based group therapy groups. Groups run throughout Boston and in Framingham. We are seeking interns for both locations. • Participate in circle ups, supporting clinician and supporting the curriculum implementation lead by clinician. • Teach basic sports skills to youth. • Provide instruction and guidance to players. • Attend coach training and instructed by supervisor. • Remind players of rules and expectations as necessary. • Help players strategize for sport and for life. • Serve as a role model on and off the field.

Requirements:
• Willingness to learn do the good curriculum • Basic knowledge of sports (ex. soccer, flag football, basketball) • Completed initial coach training (provided upon starting) • Ability to teach youth in supportive and clear manner • Age 18 or older (undergraduate or graduate students considered) • Peer mentoring skills • Ability to pass CORI check • Ability to respect client confidentiality • Reliable Transportation

Basic knowledge of sports, ability to coach and support youth, and peer mentoring skills

At Doc Wayne, our mission is to fuse sport and therapy to heal and strengthen youth. We offer at-risk youth a dynamic and innovative group therapy experience through sport to encourage positive youth development. Our creative youth-embraced curriculum is embedded with trauma-sensitive principles of care. Through this curriculum, we seek to widen the current range of mental health treatment and support options available to youth who have experienced violence and are victims of complex trauma with the goal of assisting them in becoming competent, self-sufficient adults. Our do the good (DtG) curriculum is based on The Attachment, Self-Regulation and Competency Framework and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and are designed to:

• Promote a youth’s personal development • Improve his/her capacity for pro-social relationships • Maximize his/her capacity for inclusion and participation in therapy and school • Become an experience that youth can apply to all other aspects of their lives on and off the field to help youth control their emotions and behavior as they face the tasks of life