Your Hope Center

Interns placed at Your Hope Center are engaged in a variety of services offered by our organization. Interns will receive a minimum of two hours of individual supervision each week from their primary supervisor (licensed psychologist). An additional 2 hours of supervision will be provided by appropriately licensed professionals and may include individual and/or group supervision. Interns also participate in weekly didactics with the CO-PIC intern cohort. Supplemental weekly individual supervision may be provided by other appropriately credentialed professionals and by supervisors of elective focus area experiences, as needed.

There are two distinct internship tracks available at Your Hope Center: Crisis Response and the School Based/Child Team. 

Crisis Response Track (1 FT funded position)

Your Hope Center offers 24/7 crisis support for Eagle County residents. Within the crisis track, the intern will spend four days of the week responding to crisis needs in the community, both in person and via phone. Your Hope Center offers a mobile crisis co-response model where interns will co-respond to mental health calls with law enforcement and paramedics to facilitate risk assessments, de-escalation, and resource connection. Additional intern responsibility includes providing coverage for our 24/7 crisis line on a rotating basis. The crisis response intern will also spend one full day dedicated to didactics, supervision, and training. The intern’s primary clinical responsibilities are within our crisis response team and include crisis evaluations, phone intakes, safety plan development, collaboration with other agencies, and follow-up care. Interns will work with individuals in crisis across the life-span. Additionally, interns will receive crisis related assessment experience to include, at minimum, the utilization of the Full Clinical Interview, Mental Status Exam, and Columbia Suicide Severity Rating Scale to assess suicide risk. Additionally, interns will participate in monthly team meetings with the crisis team as well as monthly meetings with partner agencies including Community Paramedics and local law enforcement agencies.

Interns placed in the Crisis Response Track will also have the opportunity to provide short-term intensive community based-stabilization as part of our Community Stabilization Program (CSP). This program provides brief youth, individual, and family therapeutic support to individuals needing intensive stabilization that do not require hospitalization. Clinical interventions in this program may include: safety planning; motivational interviewing; CBT; communication skills building; setting healthy boundaries. This program often provides intensive outpatient services for individuals being discharged back to our community from a higher level of crisis care. Evening and weekend hours may be necessary to facilitate CSP programming and crisis response.

School Based/Child Track (1 FT Funded Position)

Supporting the well-being of our youth is a top priority at Your Hope Center. Your Hope Center therapists are co-located in 14 schools throughout the Eagle River Valley. Within the school based/child track, interns will spend four days a week providing school based counseling to children and adolescents in elementary and high school. Interns will be offered school placements based on intern experience and interest. These services will include individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, formal psychological assessments, and professional consultation and systems collaboration. Interns will also spend one full day dedicated to didactics, supervision, and training. Interns will work closely with teachers, administrators, and school counselors to provide direct support to students with individual or group counseling sessions. Interns interested in providing services in the schools will have the opportunity to develop a case load within the school setting to include longer term individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, and collaboration with other professionals within the school and assessments. Additionally, interns will participate in monthly team meetings with the school team, as well as monthly meetings with partner agencies.

The intern will receive supervision and training on all assessments utilized at the Hope Center, which may include, but are not limited to: Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (WISC-V), Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS-IV), Weschler Individual Achievement Test (WIAT-III); Thematic Apperception Test (TAT), Projective Drawings, Sentence Completion (Johns), Gray Oral Reading Test (GORT-5); Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing (CTOPP-2); Beery Test of Visual Motor Integration; Conor’s Continuous Test of Auditory Attention; Trauma Symptom Checklist for Children (TSCC), Behavioral Assessment System for Children (BASC), Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children (MASC), Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI), Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), CAPS-5, PCL-5, PHQ-9, GAD-7, BAI, BDI, Full Clinical Interview, and Mental Status Exam.