Job Description

Nathaniel Clinic (Outpatient Mental Health Clinic)

Harlem Office

State licensed outpatient mental health clinic offering services including counseling/therapy, medication management, psychiatric evaluation, health assessment and monitoring, integrated treatment for substance use, complex care management, and crisis intervention. Largely services clients who are or have been involved in the criminal justice system but open to the public as well. More information about Nathaniel Clinic can be found here.

Forensic Assertive Community Treatment Team (FACT)

MHC STUDENT ONLY

Manhattan Office

FACT provides coordinated behavioral health and social support services to people with recent justice-involvement using an adapted version of the Assertive Community Treatment model—a multidisciplinary, community-based treatment model designed specifically for difficult-to-engage individuals who have a history of serious dysfunction and high usage of mental health emergency services. FACT staff include experts in psychiatry, mental health, nursing, social work, substance use treatment, peer support, housing, employment, family, and criminal justice. FACT is structured to provide the holistic, wraparound services central to the ACT model while also focusing on close coordination with criminal justice agencies to help clients adhere to ongoing system requirements (e.g., parole or probation supervision) and avoid further justice involvement. More information on FACT can be found here.

BROOKLYN ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT TEAM (ACT)

Brooklyn Office

Brooklyn ACT provides comprehensive, community-based psychiatric treatment, rehabilitation, and support to people with serious mental illness who reside in Brooklyn. ACT is an evidence-based model designed specifically for difficult-to-engage individuals who have a history of serious dysfunction and high usage of mental health emergency services. Consistent with ACT guidelines, Brooklyn ACT staff deliver services, including psychiatry, primarily in clients’ community settings. Services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and includes: Comprehensive case management, treatment planning, continuous risk assessment and management, clinical services including medication treatment and integrated mental health and substance use treatment, and support services in the areas of housing, education and job assistance and entitlements benefits.

Adolescent Portable Therapy (APT)

Based in Brooklyn & Queens

Adolescent Portable Therapy (APT) is a flexible in-home family therapy model designed to identify, reinforce, and leverage a family’s existing strengths and assets to create buy-in and willingness to learn new relational skills and begin to address challenges including the participating young person’s problem behaviors (e.g., substance abuse, truancy, etc.). This short-term intervention lasts up to four months and includes cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques. More information about APT can be found here.

NYC THRIVE INITIATIVE CONNECTIONS TO CARE

Harlem/Bronx/Manhattan

CEO, the Center for Employment Opportunities is located in downtown Manhattan and in the South Bronx. CEO serves people who have recently returned home from incarceration, the majority of whom are on probation or parole. Their comprehensive employment and training services help individuals connect to a job and career, creating greater opportunities for those facing multiple barriers to economic success. The Nathaniel Clinic is an outpatient mental health treatment provider that also serves justice involved clients, but also members of the community.

This is a unique joint-organizational internship providing an opportunity for students to work in both agencies throughout the school year. At Nathaniel Clinic, students learn traditional outpatient mental health treatment, including screenings/assessments, individual and group psychotherapy, crisis intervention, all while working on a multidisciplinary team. At CEO, students conduct brief screenings and assessments that identify participants needs in the areas of mental health and substance abuse with a specific focus on trauma and depression. The NYC Thrive Initiative Connections to Care partnership between CEO and CASES was developed so that those participants who screen positive for the above mentioned issues, can get connected to clinic treatment via a referral directly through CEO, a non-behavioral health agency, either to CASES Nathaniel Clinic or other appropriate provider.

The amount of days/time spent at each site will be determined by the student’s availability, amount of internship hours and the needs of both agencies. More information about NYC Thrive Connection to Care can be found here.

Qualifications null Additional Information

CASES is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment with CASES is based solely on qualifications and competence for a particular position, without regard to race, color, ethnic or national origin, age, religion, creed, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or marital, military, or citizenship status. We also actively recruit individuals with prior involvement in the criminal justice system.Your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.