Clinical Service Coordinator Practicum
Position Overview
As a Clinical Service Coordinator, you will play a critical role in delivering trauma-informed service coordination services. This is not traditional case management; the complexity of working with survivors of human trafficking requires advanced clinical skills. You will provide therapeutic interventions and crisis management, assisting clients with navigating resources and creating individualized plans for recovery.
What You Will Do
- Crisis Intervention: Respond to immediate client needs by providing trauma-informed crisis support. You will assess urgent situations, de-escalate crises, and coordinate emergency resources, ensuring the safety and stabilization of clients in moments of acute distress.
- Therapeutic Support: Establish therapeutic relationships with clients, assess complex challenges, and collaborate to develop solutions that foster recovery and independence.
- Safety Planning: Assist clients in creating comprehensive safety plans that reflect their unique needs and circumstances.
- Resource Navigation: Help clients access essential community resources such as housing, healthcare, legal services, and education.
- Psychoeducation: Provide psycho-educational support to enhance client understanding of trauma and develop coping mechanisms for healing.
- Team Collaboration: Participate in regular supervision, team meetings, and all-agency gatherings, ensuring a collaborative approach to client care.
AmeriCorps Service Commitment
As part of this practicum opportunity, students will need to enroll as an AmeriCorps member. AmeriCorps is a national service program that allows individuals to make a difference in their communities while receiving benefits such as a monthly stipend, ongoing professional trainings and support, and an education award upon completion of required service hours.
Program Benefits
- Monthly stipend
- Mileage reimbursement
- Ongoing trauma-informed training and professional development
- AmeriCorps Education Award upon successful completion of service
If you are interested, contact Jill Taylor, MSW, PhD, Clinical Director at [email protected]. Please include Clinical Service Coordinator in the subject line of your email.
