Intern - Beacon Drop-In Center - Trilogy Inc

For more than 50 years, Trilogy has provided people across Chicago and beyond with support to recover from mental illness and move toward stability. We provide our clients with an array of essential services and ongoing support so that they can live independently and thrive in our community. Trilogy’s mission is to enable people in mental health recovery to build meaningful and independent lives through comprehensive and integrated care. We envision a society where everyone impacted by mental illness is valued, embraced, and supported holistically, systematically, and culturally; where the stigma of mental illness is eliminated; and where quality of care is not determined by socioeconomic status.

The Beacon Master’s Intern engages clients in the activities of the Beacon Drop-In Center including individual and group activities with the goals of increasing active community involvement and building skills and abilities. Provides individual skill building services around social communication, coping and problem solving, self-care, symptom self-management, and community integration. Facilitates planned or unplanned milieu-based interventions intended to result in improving or maintaining the client’s ability to function in a variety of interpersonal situations. Helps to educate staff and clients about the recovery model. Correctly documents services provided using agency documentation system.

The Beacon Master’s Intern will offer and exemplify hope, support, and recovery-based services. They will provide client-centered, strengths-based, and trauma-informed services to clients with severe mental illness and co-occurring substance abuse/addiction disorders utilizing a harm reduction approach.

Weekly supervision with a LCSW will be provided, as well as project supervision from the Beacon Team Leader. The Beacon Master’s Intern will receive two weeks of New Staff Orientation training, as well as on the job shadowing training before providing services directly.

Responsibilities:

• Continue education and trainings to strengthen services provided.
• Assist Team Leader with Beacon operations; i.e. inventory and management of supplies.
• Regularly restock office, laundry/shower area, and café.
• Coordinate assistance from other departments to address Beacon specific issues; i.e. Maintenance, Information Technology, etc.
• Ensure the completion of routine safety drills in accordance with organization policies,
  procedures, and COVID-19 guidelines
• Coordinate with School Field Supervisors as needed for student/Intern placement.
• Facilitate milieu-based interventions intended to result in improving or maintaining the client’s ability to function in a variety of interpersonal situations.
• Consult and partner with other departments for coordination of care for clients.
• Perform other related duties and/or projects as assigned.
• Shift Requirements will vary depending on needs and hour of the Beacon.
• Learn and utilize Carelogic electronic medical record to document and bill for services
  provided under direction of supervisor

Qualifications:

• Master’s student with approval from Field Department
• Ability to be flexible and adaptable in a variety of situations
• Interest in working with people with mental health and/or substance abuse diagnoses

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