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Working at HCN

In alignment with our diverse and devoted staff, HCN seeks candidates who are genuine, caring, enthusiastic, team-orientated individuals. Successful candidates have a positive attitude and proven ability to work successfully with people of different ethnic, socioeconomic, educational, religious, and sexual orientations.

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We also emphasize the heartfelt quality of compassion, with exquisite cultural responsiveness as a primary guiding quality. Please bring a strong analysis of how race, ethnicity, culture, language, region, poverty, sexual and gender identity, age, education, opportunities, and resources generationally made available or not, and systemic oppressions impact a person’s mental health. ​

Benefits:

 

HCN provides a robust and comprehensive compensation package which values our employees. This includes:
 

  • Full Dental insurance

  • Full Health insurance

  • Full Vision Insurance

  • Paid Time Off

  • Monthly Commuter

  • Stipend Monthly Rental/Mortgage Housing Assistance Stipend

  • Life Insurance

  • 401k Retirement Plan

  • Professional Development Support

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“It’s just really nice to have people understand who you are and your culture, in a way where you don’t have to explain yourself or be like code switching. ‘Am I allowed to say this? How will this be received?’ At HCN, there’s a space for us to be ourselves”

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 - HCN Director

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Clinical Internships

1) What You’ll Do As An Intern Trainee:

Trainees are significant members of our team of mental health professionals. Interns provide children and families with individual, family, and dyadic therapy through our MediCal-funded programming. Interns are assigned one elementary school in San Francisco to provide these services and collaborate closely with school staff. Intern caseloads vary dependent on their master’s program requirements. First year students carry a caseload of approximately 4-5 clients and second year students carry a caseload of approximately 7-8 clients. Trainees are present approximately two to three days a week. Schedules are dependent on school requirements, scheduling, and client needs. The intern year begins with a two week orientation and training process which includes learning CANS assessment, documentation, child abuse reporting, and various clinical trainings. Throughout the remainder of the year, bi-weekly trainings are held on Tuesday mornings from 9:30am-11am with staff members. Once a month interns will have a clinical training concentrated on their skill development. This training will include theoretical perspectives including attachment-based psychotherapy, understanding group work, behavioral interventions in school settings, common topics present in session such as trauma and grief, play therapy and drama therapy experiential trainings, and how to maintain the client relationship at each stage of therapy.

2) MA’AT EPSDT Interns:

If you identify as Black or part of the African -Descended community you will be joining our MA’AT EPSDT program. Our Ma'at EPSDT program provides mental health services to children 0-18 who live or go to school in San Francisco and identify as members of the Black/African-Descended community. Clinicians in this program also identify as members of the
Black/African-descended community and work specifically in Ma'at to provide culturally-appropriate care to individuals who often cannot get such services in other systems. Afro-centric, community-based values and perspectives are central to the way clinicians in the Ma'at program view and address a client's barriers and difficulties.

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3) How This Internship Can
Benefit Your Career?

This internship will prepare you for a position in the field of mental health and supportive services. You’ll learn hands-on skills that will make you marketable for potential jobs, including how to navigate MediCal documentation, how to complete an assessment based on the needs and strengths of a client (or CANS), and how to work in a multi-disciplinary model collaborating with other service professionals and important figures in the clients’ lives. You’ll develop a more thorough understanding of theory within the therapeutic relationship and how it can benefit your clients, and feel more confident as a clinician.

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Important Dates and Information:

The internship year begins and ends with the SFUSD school year (August-June). Administrative documentation will be requested to be completed at the end of the summer, before orientation begins. Your intern year will be based on school requirements, scheduling, and intern needs. First year students carry a caseload of approximately 4-5 clients and second year students carry a caseload of approximately 7-8 clients. Mandatory trainings are held on

Tuesday mornings from 9:30am-11am. Group Supervision is provided every week for two hours. Individual supervision is scheduled based on your availability.

To apply, please send a resume, cover letter, and reference to be considered for internship placement to: trainings@hcnkids.org  

Candace Kavanagh LMFT 131131 Clinical Training Program Manager Homeless Children’s Network candace.kavanagh@hcnkids.org

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