Internships

Use what you are learning on-the-job.

Cayuga Centers is a vibrant human services environment serving individuals, children, and families through a variety of programs in Central New York, Bronx/NYC metro area, Delaware, and Palm Beach County, Florida. Exciting interships match your field of study and interest to on-the-job experiences related to treatment programs for youth and families, services for people with developmental disabilities, community-based intervent...

Summary of Responsibilities:

Coordinates treatment planning and delivery for all program youth and family. Strives to build a partnership between the youth, foster family and biological family. Provides treatment in the forms of individual and family therapy to these assigned youth and families. Maintains professionalism in all areas including confidentiality.

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will support and initially treat any medical needs required by UC, traveling when necessary to each New York City location. The Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner will conduct an initial psychiatric evaluation of each youth and refer UC to medical services as needed.

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Assist in directing residential living units. Facilitating the approved program to assist residents in acquiring the skills and self-esteem needed to establish and achieve personal goals. The Overnight Assistant Manager will maintain professionalism in all areas including confidentiality. The Overnight Assistant Manager will supervise overnight staff to ensure that they are carrying out all of their ...

An extraordinary opportunity to work with individuals with developmental disabilities.

The Opportunity: Medicaid Service Coordination (MSC) is one of Cayuga Centers’ fastest growing programs, and we have new openings. MSC offers individuals with developmental disabilities the opportunity to build goals and access services that help consumers and families reach the ...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Recruits, trains and facilitates certification of foster parents; ensures a good working relationship with parents by providing a valuable resource to families. Maintains professionalism in all areas including confidentiality.

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• Works with branch managers and director to anticipate host parent recruitmen...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES: Compose, execute and maintain the policies and procedures of the agency.

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• Write, edit and update all agency policies and procedures
• Write new policy in partnership with program leadership
• Research trending policy to incorporate with agency policy
• Create written policy with...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES: To provide skills training within the Long Term Foster Care (LTFC) UC program. This includes working one-on one or in group settings with UC, supervising, transporting, and communicating with UC as assigned within all NYC locations

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• Assist Assistant Director of Skills Training in creating skill buildin...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:The Agency Trainer will work as part of a collaborative team to deliver agency training's to new hires, foster parents, recertification classes, and ongoing professional development cohorts.

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• Deliver stand up training in a professional and knowledgeable manner
• Provide training that is current ...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Assists in directing a residential living unit. Facilitating the approved program to assist residents in acquiring the skills and self-esteem needed to establish and achieve personal goals. The Assistant Manager will maintain professionalism in all areas including confidentiality, demonstrate the ability to perform all group care worker tasks and lead by example.

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES: The Assistant Campus Support Manager works in partnership with residential management to ensure cross-campus coordination and operation.

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1. Care of Youth
• Properly employs all agency protocols and procedures in order to maintain an environment consistent with agency principles th...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES: The Campus Support Manager is responsible for observing, assessing, intervening, accepting and engaging youth who cannot be maintained in their program environments. The Campus Support Manager applies experience and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention techniques for youth in need of more specialized support. The Campus Support Manager will be familiar with and support the treatment goals and objectives ...

Group Care Worker:
Troubled Youth/Tough Job.
Turnaround Youth/Terrific Job.

This job is not for everyone. For the right person, this job provides an extraordinary opportunity to change the lives of youth in our Residential Treatment Program.

The Opportunity: Provide direct care to youth in an individual cottage setting, serving as a mature mentor building a safe and secure environment; Work wi...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Shall be responsible for direct care, consumer-specific programming, and supervision of one or more assigned individuals.  Shall also ensure that all measures necessary for the safety and well-being of all assigned consumers are maintained at the highest level possible.  Shall administer medication, if necessary, upon completion of the OPWDD approved Medication Administration Course.  Shall be respon...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES: Under the direction of the Director of UC TFC Clinical Services, the X-Ray technician will be responsible for responding to requests from the medical center for all x-ray procedures. Responsibilities include x-ray consumer intake, explaining x-ray procedures to consumers, maintaining equipment, and producing x-ray images as requested.

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Under the supervision of the Program Director and in cooperation with all other agency personnel, executes the approved program to assist youths, host families and birth families in identifying and/or acquiring the skills and self-esteem needed to establish and achieve personal goals. Maintains professionalism in all areas, including confidentiality.

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SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Provide psychiatric evaluations and medication management of youth in the RTC and CNY TFFC Programs.

FUNCTIONS:

• Provide a psychiatric evaluation for all youth admitted to the RTC and CNY TFFC Programs.
• Conduct addition assessments if needed/requested during a youth’s placement.
• Pr...

Summary of Responsibilities:

To provide short-term academic support and education for all Unaccompanied Children (UC) elementary through high school age. Teachers will work in an on-site room with a mixed-age group of youth to provide year-round instruction by utilizing computer-aid...

SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES:Under the direction of the Vice President of the CBI Programs and direct supervision of the Director of Cayuga Family Resiliency, the social worker/therapist will provide intensive home, school and community based clinical, crisis intervention and case management services to families with children in Cayuga County.

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