IRC - International Rescue Committee
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Department: Health and Wellness
Reports to: Clinical Supervisor and Family
Stabilization Specialist
Time Commitment: 10 – 15 hours per week .August 23, 2024 – May 16, 2025. Weekly schedule to be determined by supervisor and intern.
Compensation: This is an unpaid internship. Interns receive mileage reimbursement when driving is required.
Duties:
• Work alongside Family Stabilization Specialists to support
high-need refugees facing concerns related to severe mental health, domestic
violence, child abuse, substance abuse, elder abuse, sexual assault, and
suicide ideation
• Utilize interpretation to provide psycho-education and
social-emotional support to clients
• Practice a trauma-informed approach, recognizing and
drawing on client’s individual strengths to reach client goals
• Assist and educate refugees in accessing community
resources and support programs, support with referrals
• Provide case coordination helping clients overcome
barriers in accessing services, including providing transportation to and from
appointments when necessary
• Maintain positive partnerships with services providers to
ensure clients have access to culturally and linguistically appropriate service
• Provide accurate and timely case notes
• May also provide educational resources and trainings to
community partners including schools and health facilities
Learning Objectives:
The FSS intern will have the opportunity to work with
refugees from diverse backgrounds and will learn to use trauma-informed and strengths-based
approaches to ensure clients in crisis receive necessary support and care. The
FSS intern will gain a working knowledge of how resettlement programs at the
IRC support refugees in reaching self-sufficiency, and common challenges that
refugees face during resettlement.
Minimum Qualifications:Preferred Skills:
• Patient, organized, independent
• Able to respond compassionately and appropriately while working with people facing severe mental health needs or safety concerns, with supervision support
• Experience working with diverse populations and building trusting relationship across cultures
Required Skills:
•Must be enrolled in a graduate program in Social Work or Counseling
• Second year student or advanced standing
• Comfortable with a high level of client interaction
• Must be able to transport clients in a reliable vehicle
Commitment to Gender, Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion: The IRC is committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and safe work environment where all persons are treated fairly, with dignity and respect. The IRC expressly prohibits and will not tolerate discrimination, harassment, retaliation, or bullying of the IRC persons in any work setting. We aim to increase the representation of women, people that are from country and communities we serve, and people who identify as races and ethnicities that are under-represented in global power structures.
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