Social Work Practicum

Job Description

Job Description

Reports To : Social Worker

Location : 42 W. 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 and 500 Pearl St, New York, NY 10007

Length of Practicum / Internship : Fall 2024 Spring 2025 (or as otherwise determined by the requirements of your college / university)

Hours : 15-21 hours / week

About Us

The City Bar Justice Center (CBJC), an affiliate of the NYC Bar Association and provider of free civil legal aid services (https : / / www.

citybarjusticecenter.org / our -projects / ), seeks a social work student for a practicum with the interdisciplinary, trauma informed client support structure that CBJC provides to support litigants representing themselves in federal court in a range of matters including employment discrimination, civil rights, and other matters.

CBJC expands access to justice by providing high quality, free civil legal services that benefit more than 25,000 New Yorkers each year who lack resources to hire private counsel.

Pro bono partnerships with law firms and corporate legal departments, as well as strategic partnerships with courts, community organizations, and other stakeholders offer key support to CBJC’s three dozen member team.

Social Work Practicum Description : The role of the social work practicum student will be to participate in supervised assistance to CBJC clients needing to access human and social services through appropriate referrals, and advocacy for public entitlements and other resources with systems and agencies where applicable.

The social work student will work with a diverse population including immigrants, unhoused, LGBTQ+, veterans, elderly, pro se litigants pursuing civil rights and other federal claims, and individuals with a medical health diagnosis.

Learning Objectives :

• Obtain hands on professional experiences while making meaningful and impactful contributions to the community by advancing human rights and social and economic justice.
• Apply coursework and learned theories to human behavior while engaging diversity and difference in practice.
• Develop critical thinking, advocacy skills, and utilize professional judgement.
• Engage in research-based practices.
• Build your professional experiences and accomplishments.

Our superstar candidate is :

• Passionate about providing high quality services to individuals involved in the justice system.
• A lifetime learner, continuously developing their skills within general social work practice.
• Dedicated to modeling strength-based, trauma-informed practice with individuals and colleagues.
• Culturally humble with a commitment to the City Bar Justice Center’s mission, vision, and values.

Major Learning Opportunities :

Learn by working under supervision to :

• Help clients access human and social services through appropriate referrals (e.g. shelter, medical, and mental health care, public assistance).
• Develop client service plans as needed.
• Advocate on behalf of clients for public entitlements and other resources with systems and agencies where applicable.
• Provide clients with short-term counseling, crisis intervention, and safety and risk management assessments.
• Facilitate psychosocial education for clients to assess / attend to their needs.
• Help provide client support by attending Court hearings as needed.
• Provide other client support duties and projects to be determined in collaboration with supervisor.
• Complete case notes in internal database in a timely fashion.
• Participate in all training, supervision, consultation activities, as well as program and agency staff meetings and trainings.
• Collaborate closely with colleagues and interdisciplinary teams.

Qualifications / Requirements :

• Must be enrolled in an accredited social work program
• First year or second year social work student
• Bilingual in Spanish is a plus
• Must have strong organizational and interpersonal skills
• Must be willing and able to travel to midtown and lower Manhattan office locations
• Must have a commitment to work from a strength based and trauma-informed perspective

This is an unpaid practicum opportunity. Consideration will be given to candidates who will secure academic credit or funding for this internship through their college or university.

There should be no expectation or guarantee of employment with the City Bar at the end of the internship.

The City Bar Justice Center is a proud equal opportunity employer, and we particularly encourage applications from candidates belonging to communities historically under-represented in the legal profession.

We actively seek a diverse applicant pool and encourage candidates of all backgrounds and unique experiences to apply. We welcome diversity of all kinds.

It is our policy to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, creed, age, national origin, alienage or citizenship status, gender (including gender identity), sexual orientation, disability, arrest or conviction record, pregnancy, credit history, salary history, caregiver status, marital status, partnership status, or status as a victim of domestic violence, stalking and sex offenses, religion, sex, genetic information, military status, unemployment status or any other characteristic as protected by law.

With regard to the Americans with Disabilities Act and other related laws, the organization will endeavor to make reasonable accommodations for persons due to their religious beliefs, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical condition or because the individual was a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence or stalking.

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