Intern­ship Information

Ken­neth Young Cen­ter is proud to offer a vari­ety of intern­ship oppor­tu­ni­ties. We treat our interns as staff and con­sid­er them an impor­tant part of our agency’s growth into the future. Many ther­a­pists, super­vi­sors, and lead­ers at KYC start­ed as an intern.

Please note that most of the infor­ma­tion on this page refers to the Clin­i­cal Mas­ters-lev­el pro­gram. Spe­cif­ic teams at KYC may offer addi­tion­al oppor­tu­ni­ties for stu­dents in Under­grad­u­ate, 1^st year Social Work, Occu­pa­tion­al Ther­a­py, and oth­er pro­grams. These posi­tions are list­ed indi­vid­u­al­ly along­side job post­ings on our Careers page.

For more infor­ma­tion, con­tact hr@​ken­nethy­oung.​org

Clin­i­cal Mas­ters Internship

Every year, KYC part­ners with accred­it­ed grad­u­ate pro­grams in social work, psy­chol­o­gy, men­tal health coun­sel­ing, and more through­out Chicagoland and beyond to host clin­i­cal interns across sev­er­al of our behav­ioral health teams. 

We treat our stu­dent interns as staff and con­sid­er them an impor­tant part of our teams’ and agency’s growth into the future. As an intern, you will work inde­pen­dent­ly and as part of a team to pro­vide a mul­ti­tude of men­tal health services: 

• Indi­vid­ual, group, and fam­i­ly therapy 

• Intake and assessment 

• Client-cen­tered goal setting 

• Col­lab­o­ra­tion with an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary team 

• Case man­age­ment and linkage 

Clin­i­cal Mas­ters’ interns are receiv­ing a $5000 stipend for the 2024 – 2025 year, with half paid at the end of each semes­ter. This year we were able to offer an addi­tion­al stipend to BIPOC interns through the IHPA Work­force Devel­op­ment pro­gram; we hope to offer this again and will noti­fy schools/​students as soon as we have con­fir­ma­tion for the 2025 – 2026 school year. 

Interns receive week­ly indi­vid­ual super­vi­sion with a licensed clin­i­cal supervisor. 

KYC interns not only have the ben­e­fit of learn­ing from their own super­vi­sor and team, they join a cohort of 10+ fel­low stu­dents with whom they share ori­en­ta­tion, group super­vi­sion, and oth­er activ­i­ties dur­ing the year. 

Stu­dents are required to work a min­i­mum of 20 hours a week and can expect about half (50%) of that time to be spent pro­vid­ing direct ser­vice. Addi­tion­al hours are avail­able if need­ed for your program. 

There is no guar­an­tee of remote work for this intern­ship. Some pro­grams are exclu­sive­ly on-site and/​or in the com­mu­ni­ty, while oth­ers may include some remote work. Stu­dents will receive train­ing in best prac­tices around telehealth. 

Clin­i­cal (CEU) train­ings are pro­vid­ed at least 4 times per year, and interns may attend at no cost. 

Intern­ship Time­line & Application

Our intern­ship pro­gram runs mid-August and goes through the end of May. 

Appli­ca­tions will be open start­ing in mid-Decem­ber 2024. We are cur­rent­ly plan­ning for inter­views in Jan­u­ary and Feb­ru­ary. Even if you are open to an intern­ship on one of sev­er­al teams, only one appli­ca­tion is needed. 

Need­ed mate­ri­als include:

1. Resume/​CV,
2. Cov­er Letter
3. Sup­ple­men­tal Application

To apply, please go to our job post­ing page and locate the ​“Behav­ioral Health Clin­i­cal Intern” position. 

If you have any oth­er ques­tions, please con­tact our intern­ship coor­di­na­tors at internshipprogram@​kennethyoung.​org.