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Mental Health Intern

United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 4 Feb 2025

About the role

Job Title: Mental Health Intern Department/Program: Outpatient (OP) Reports to: OP Clinical Supervisor Work location: Gresham (In- Person) FLSA status: (non-exempt/hourly) Pay Rate: $20,000 (dispersed through the duration of the internship) Overview: Morrison Child & Family Services: Morrison Child and Family Services is a non-profit organization that provides a comprehensive array of services to children, adolescents, and their families.   As an agency, Morrison, its team members, and clients commit to the following values of trauma-informed care:  

Nonviolence - being safe and doing the right thing 
Emotional Intelligence - managing our feelings so we don’t hurt ourselves or others  
Social Learning - respecting and sharing ideas of our teams 
Democracy - shared decision making whenever possible 
Open Communication - saying what we mean and not being mean when we say it 
Social Responsibility - everyone makes a contribution to the organizational culture 
Growth and Change - creating hope for our clients and ourselves 
Equity - Assuring all can survive and thrive

Visit our website to learn more about our mission and history and our strategy for accomplishing our goal of achieving significant, positive, and long-term clinical outcomes for the clients we serve.  At Morrison we celebrate diversity. Through our commitment to equity and inclusion, we support our communities to move beyond disparity and oppression and work with compassion, integrity, and dedication to social justice through the implementation of goals and policies. We strive to create an inclusive and anti-racist organization by ensuring that racial identity will not determine or predict the quality of trauma-informed care a child receives; to that effect, we’re looking for candidates who can provide culturally appropriate care or possess the ability to hold each other and yourself accountable to the diversity and uniqueness of all individuals within Morrison, our clients, and our community stakeholders.      We strive to create a diverse and inclusive work environment to better serve our clients, and we are an Equal Opportunity Employer.  Outpatient: Morrison Child and Family Services delivers outpatient mental health services to children, ages 2 through 18. At the core of our work is a belief in the importance of acknowledging strengths and creating resilience in each child.  Our skilled therapists collaborate with each child and their support system to identify a treatment approach that addresses the child’s mental health symptoms and leads to improved functioning in all areas of the child’s life.  We strive to provide culturally responsive services and respect the values and unique perspectives of all our clients. Position/Job Summary: Through our paid internship program, we hope to increase availability/access for, and meet the needs of, our culturally, racially, and/or linguistically marginalized clients and their families. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of and experience with culturally, racially, and/or linguistically marginalized communities. This would be demonstrated by understanding and s