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Behavioral Health Care Services
Early Childhood Consultation and Treatment Program

Location Eastmont Mall, Oakland
However, most of the services are provided out in the community throughout the County.
 
Age Group Served Children ages 0-6 and their families
 
Program Description The Early Childhood Consultation and Treatment Program (ECCTP) provides early intervention and prevention services through on-site mental health consultation and direct services to child care staff who care for children ages 0-6. The goal of mental health consultation is to promote and enhance relationships between the child, child care staff, and the child’s family to create a positive child care experience for young children. Consultants address social-emotional, behavioral, developmental, classroom, and family issues within the context of this work.

ECCTP also provides home and clinic-based dyadic parent/child and family psychotherapy for children ages 0-6 and their families. Mental health services focus on behavioral, social-emotional, and/or developmental needs that parents have in their relationship with their young children. Common themes addressed in this treatment are separation and loss, trauma, domestic violence, abuse and neglect, poverty, and homelessness. An attachment model is utilized to address these themes.

Both services are provided in a relationship-based psychodynamic model that includes collateral work with parents, individual play therapy, developmental assessments, developmental guidance, some behavioral intervention, and case management. All services are provided with a commitment to socio-cultural sensitivity. Both mental health consultation to child care and parent/child therapy focus on the rapidly changing development of the young child and how development interfaces with mental health concerns. The focus of the intern training experience is on both types of service delivery (mental health consultation to child care and parent/child therapy).
 
Placement Period Academic school year; we do not take summer interns
 
Program/Placement Hours Flexible
 
Preferred Discipline / Experience MSW, open to recruitment of MFTI students
 
First or Second Year Students Second Year (First Year considered with excellent experience)
 
Supervision & Support: ECCTP practices reflective supervision which is a model that encourages self-reflection, insight, and use of self. We highly value supervision and provide consistent weekly clinical supervision for 1 ˝ hours. Interns also receive an additional 1˝ hours of supervision specifically around the mental health consultation work two times a month. In addition, interns participate in weekly group supervision for 2 hours. ECCTP provides an in-depth initial training and orientation and on-going support and guidance to all interns.
 
Send Resume to: Deb Yates, LCSW
dyates@acbhcs.org
Phone: 510-383-5129
Fax: 510-383-5145
 
Application Due Date: Flexible – No deadline but earlier is better