Egyptian Public & Mental Health Department (EHD) and Wabash Ohio Valley Special Education District (WOVSED) co-lead one of the Southeastern Illinois System of Care sites. The Southeastern Illinois System of Care is made up of organizations that collaborate and partner together to meet the needs of children, adolescents, and families that have a variety of needs. Training within this site will provide contact to and coordination with many other service organizations within the network in order to serve children and families. Interns will spend time within both school and clinical settings that engage in a collaborative, multi-tiered system of service provision.
Egyptian Public & Mental Health Department (EHD) is a community-based behavioral health agency located in southern Illinois that serves clients of all ages with a variety of needs related to mental health and substance use. With over 160 staff members, 40 staff working within the Child & Adolescent Division, and 70 years serving the community, EHD currently serves as the lead agency for the Project Connect and Integrated Care for Kids (InCK) and Adults (InCA) systems of care for mental health for the southeastern region.
Wabash Ohio Valley Special Education District (WOVSED) is a special education joint agreement between 21 school districts located across southeastern Illinois. WOVSED provides special education services and resources to the students, parents, teachers, and administrators within the area.
Interns spend at least two days per week within a school setting conducting an array of school psychological services. This experience affords expertise in the delivery of psychological services within schools including prevention, consultation, assessment, and intervention activities to address student academic, behavioral, social, emotional, or mental health needs. Interns will collaborate with a wide array of school professionals, including speech-language pathologist, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and school social workers. Opportunities will be available to work in various special education settings, such as classrooms geared towards students with autism and classrooms serving students with emotional and behavioral disabilities. School-based services are supervised by site-specific school psychology supervisors with additional supervision from the Director of WOVSED or the Licensed Clinical Psychologist as needed.
Interns train two to three days per week at the Egyptian Public & Mental Health Department serving children and families within clinic, school, and community-based settings. Interns provide brief therapeutic interventions using evidence-based individual, family, and group treatments based on the needs of the community and interests of the intern. EHD’s Child & Adolescent Division provides several evidence-based practices, including High Fidelity Wraparound, Managing Adaptive Practices (MAP), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in the Schools, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Triple P Parenting, The Incredible Years, and Botvin Life Skills. Interns will be exposed to any and all of these interventions as well as be trained and certified in Managing and Adapting Practices (MAP) or Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE). Depending on funding, the region often hosts certification trainings in one or more of the following evidence-based treatments:
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in the Schools (CBITS)
- Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA)
The intern can expect to develop competence and skills in some or all of the following: individual, family, and group therapy; educational, mental health, and functional screening and assessment; IEP and treatment plan development; psychological consultation; team-based treatment services; prevention programming; and evaluation/research. Depending on individual interest, interns may also pursue additional training and experiential opportunities, including (but not limited too):
- substance use screening, assessment, and treatment
- crisis assessment and intervention
- juvenile justice population
- early childhood mental health
- community-based mental health with school partnership
- psychological evaluation
- systems consultation
- integrated behavioral and primary healthcare
- resource development
- grant writing
During the summer months, when school is not in session, interns will spend five days a week under the supervision of a Licensed Clinical Psychologist at the EHD with exception of any activities WOVSED has occurring, such as professional development delivery, consultation, evaluations, etc. Activities at EHD will include facilitation of groups for youth and caregivers, individual and family sessions, conducting trainings and presentations for community outreach, conducting psychological evaluations, and/or participation in a summer treatment program.
Interns train under the direct supervision of a Licensed Clinical Psychologist dually credentialed as a school psychologist. Secondary supervision is provided by other psychologists, licensed mental health providers, and postdoctoral trainees.
On Fridays, interns participate in didactic trainings with their cohort, specific training within the internship site, clinical supervision, and other training activities. Mileage reimbursement between offices and to required trainings is provided. Stipend: $23,000 with 15 holidays as well as vacation, sick, and personal time.
| Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year* Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns – $23,000 | |
| Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns – N/A | |
| Program provides access to medical insurance for intern? | No |
| If access to medical insurance is provided | |
| Trainee contribution to cost required? | N/A |
| Coverage of family member(s) available? | N/A |
| Coverage of legally married partner available? | N/A |
| Coverage of domestic partner available? | N/A |
| Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation) – 40 Hours | |
| Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave – 40 hours | |
| In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave? | Yes |
| Other Benefits (please describe): lodging for ISPIC trainings; possible training available for certification in evidence-based practices |
Interns train three days per week at the Egyptian Public & Mental Health Department serving children and families within clinic, school, and community-based settings. Interns provide brief therapeutic interventions using evidence-based individual, family, and group treatments based on the needs of the community and interests of the intern. EHD’s Child & Adolescent Division provides several evidence-based practices, including High Fidelity Wraparound, Managing Adaptive Practices (MAP), Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in the Schools, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), Triple P Parenting, The Incredible Years, and Botvin Life Skills. Interns will be exposed to any and all of these interventions as well as be trained and certified in Managing and Adapting Practices (MAP) or Child Adult Relationship Enhancement (CARE). Depending on funding, the region often hosts certification trainings in one or more of the following evidence-based treatments:
- Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)
- Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT)
- Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in the Schools (CBITS)
- Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Youth Mental Health First Aid (YMHFA)
The intern can expect to develop competence and skills in some or all of the following: individual, family, and group therapy; educational, mental health, and functional screening and assessment; IEP and treatment plan development; psychological consultation; team-based treatment services; prevention programming; and evaluation/research. Depending on individual interest, interns may also pursue additional training and experiential opportunities, including (but not limited too):
- substance use screening, assessment, and treatment
- crisis assessment and intervention
- juvenile justice population
- early childhood mental health
- community-based mental health with school partnership
- psychological evaluation
- systems consultation
- integrated behavioral and primary healthcare
- resource development
- grant writing