Social Work Training Program
Announcing New Fellowship opportunity!
Pediatric Oncology Social Work Fellowship
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital Boston are offering a new full time fellowship in pediatric oncology social work. The fellowship will provide the opportunity to work with patients and their families in both the out-patient (Jimmy Fund Clinic at Dana-Farber) and in-patient (Childrens Hospital Boston) settings. The work includes psychosocial assessment, individual therapy with children, parents and siblings, therapeutic groups, participation in multidisciplinary rounds at Children’s Hospital Boston, and consultation/collaboration with medical staff and outside agencies. Fellow will participate in various social work and multidisciplinary training opportunities at both DFCI and CHB. Supervision will be provided by senior staff (2 hours per week).
Compensation is full time salary of $26,000 plus benefits. Please indicate this choice on your application form.
The Department of Psychiatry Fellowship
The Department of Psychiatry offers a full time fellowship providing a solid, broad-based training opportunity in child and adolescent mental health. The fellowship offers intensive supervision by senior staff as well as participation in numerous social work and multidisciplinary trainings and seminars. These include Psychotherapy Seminar, Group Therapy Didactic, Family Therapy Seminar, Evidence-Based Treatment Training Modules, Outpatient Psychiatry Trainee Case Conference, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, and Psychiatry Morbidity and Mortality Conference.
The Fellow’s clinical work will be in Outpatient and Emergency Psychiatry. In Outpatient Psychiatry, diagnostic evaluations and psychotherapy with children and adolescents, parents, families and groups form the core of the fellowship. One afternoon per week, the Fellow will work in the Emergency Psychiatry Service, learning to do emergency assessments and crisis intervention. The Fellow will spend one afternoon per week doing an elective. Usually this will involve working on a research project with senior staff.
Fellows receive four weeks vacation, to be taken at the mutual convenience of the Fellow and the supervisor. The fellowships run from September through August.
Compensation is full time salary of $26,000 plus benefits.
Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships (CHNP)
Children’s Hospital Neighborhood Partnerships (CHNP) is the community mental health program in the Department of Psychiatry. The CHNP team works on-site with children, adolescents, and families in 15 Boston area schools. The fellow will be placed at the John Marshall Elementary School in Dorchester, MA. The fellow will spend four days at the school and one day at Children’s Hospital. The fellow will facilitate a number of social and emotional prevention activities, including small group work and classroom-based activities. In addition, the fellow will have a caseload of individual clients. The fellow will participate in school teams and community events. Fellow will have the opportunity to participate in the development of new prevention interventions and outcome research. Given the mission and practice of the CHNP, applicants are sought with backgrounds in community and school-based work with diverse populations.
The fellow will have the opportunity to attend numerous social work and multidisciplinary seminars on Wednesdays. These include CHNP Training Seminar, Group Therapy Didactic, Family Therapy Seminar, CHNP Case Conference, Psychiatry Grand Rounds, and Psychiatry Morbidity and Mortality Conference.
Compensation is full time salary of $26,000 plus benefits.
The Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) Fellowship - Part-Time
This is an opportunity for a social work fellow to develop leadership skills and learn about developmental disabilities.
The Leadership Education in Neuro-Developmental Disabilities (LEND) program at Children's provides interdisciplinary leadership education (didactic and clinical). It prepares leaders in an emerging health care system to improve the health of infants, children and adolescents who have, or are at risk for, developing neurodevelopment and related disabilities. This program requires 1.5 days per week, with Friday as a mandatory day.
Highlights of the LEND program
- Participation in a three-day policy/advocacy conference in Washington DC that includes a legislative reception and an opportunity to advocate directly on Capitol Hill.
- Opportunity to work clinically with families (both in the hospital and in the community) who have children with special health care needs, LICSW supervision provided.
- Participation on Children's interdisciplinary comprehensive evaluation team.
- Direct in-home experience with a family whose child has a developmental disability through the Linking Hands Program at Children's.
- Didactic seminars on leadership, state-of-the-art, evidence-based practices across disciplines, interdisciplinary collaboration, cultural awareness, public health perspectives, conflict resolution, and policies and approaches from a systems perspective.
- Opportunity for ongoing work with community-based minority organization.
There is a $4,000 stipend with no benefits
Contact us
For more information on these fellowship programs, please email us at swtraininginfo@childrens.harvard.edu .
