The Chicago Park District Special Recreation Team is hiring! Do you know someone who loves to have fun AND get paid?! Send them our way! The Special Recreation Department serves children and adults with intellectual abilities in over 20 parks across the city of Chicago. As a Special Recreation Instructor or Rec Leader, employees lead people with disabilities through a variety of activities including Special Olympics training (in over 15 sports at the skills and team levels), arts, fun and games, fitness, daily living skills, social activities, and more!

Please help spread the word so we can strengthen our team and serve more citizens of Chicago. Postings can be found at the links below and will be available for applicants to apply until December 6. Thanks, in advance, for your help!

Special Recreation Leader

Special Recreation Instructor

MaineStay Youth & Family Services in Park Ridge is now accepting applications from master’s students interested in a counseling internship at MaineStay Youth & Family Services for 2025-2026. They will be starting interviews in January. See attached flyer that provides an overview of their extensive internship training program. More detailed information can be found online at mainetown.com/internship. They are looking for highly motivated students interested in the field of family therapy or counseling who would like to have a lot of training and supervision at their internship site.

Please reach out to Richard Lyon at rlyon@mainetown.com with any questions.

MaineStay Internship Program Flyer

Maine Township

MaineStay Youth & Family Services

1700 Ballard Road

Park Ridge, Illinois 60068

mainetown.com

Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital in Hoffman Estates is opening their 25-26 internship application process on December 1^st. Their application/interview process is conducted on a rolling admissions approach which means that as soon as applications are received, they are reviewed and, if chosen, interviews are scheduled. The majority of the interviewing takes place from January through March. They will continue to accept applications until all 20 of their internship positions are full.

Counseling Master’s Student Brochure 2025

In order to apply, students need to complete the one page application and email it along with two letters of recommendation, a resume, a cover letter and unofficial graduate school transcripts to Marie Duetsch, Director of Student Training, at Marie.duetsch@ascension.org. Students can also reach out to this contact with any questions.

Masters Student Application Form_2025

Ascension Alexian Brothers Behavioral Health Hospital

1650 Moon Lake Blvd | Hoffman Estates, IL 60169

Hanover Township Youth and Family Services in Bartlett, IL area is currently accepting internship applications for the 25-26 year. Interested students can reach out to Alexis Trocki at atrocki@hanover-township.org with a resume and cover letter. Please see the attached description for more details.

https://www.hanover-township.org/

Chicago Counseling Services has opened its internship application process for the 2025-26 training year at Chicago Counseling Services. Applicants can reach out to Josh Singh with their resume and a letter of interest.

Josh Singh, PhD

jsingh@chicagocounselingservices.com

www.chicagocounselingservices.com/training

773.345.8330

Maine East High School is currently searching for school counseling interns. With over 1,900 students and a diverse student body, roughly 30% white, 30% Asian, 30% Latinx, 6% Black, 4% two or more races and 50+ languages spoken, Maine East High School is a community that embraces and celebrates our diverse student population.  

We are a RAMP certified counseling department with 7 general counselors and 1 post-secondary counselor.  In accordance with the ASCA national model, our counselors have approximately 270 students on their caseload and they meet the academic, social-emotional and post high school needs of all of our students.  In addition, our counselors facilitate lessons, run groups, conduct risk assessments, run the course selection process, and operate within an MTSS model to review data and identify students for appropriate interventions. We are confident our comprehensive school counseling program can provide a well-rounded experience in a diverse and academically challenging environment with an extensive list of opportunities to conduct a closing the gap project. 

You are welcome to check out our school profile and link to our Student and Family Services website. We are looking to hire one intern for the 25-26 academic year and will begin our intern interview process in early December. Please note that our counselors do not work over the summer so we can only offer the practicum and internship supervision between August – May. If anyone is interested in applying, please send a resume and letter of interest to cfuerte@maine207.org. 

Evanston Township High School is looking to build their School Counseling Internship Program and encourage all interested students to apply for an intern position for the 2025-2026 school year. Attached is a hard copy of the intern job description and ETHS School Profile. All interested students should send their resume and cover letter to Marti Cuevas-Cintron at cuevasm@eths202.org no later than December 11, 2024.

ETHS Website

https://www.eths.k12.il.us/eths

ETHS School Profile

https://www.eths.k12.il.us/domain/220

CPS has shared the recording and the PowerPoint from their CPS Orientation Meeting for prospective School Counseling interns that took place last week (see below).

CPS Orientation Meeting Nov 2024 – Recording

CPS Orientation Meeting Nov 2024 – PowerPoint Presentation

Please note that while the deadline for all CPS paperwork is February 1^st (as we mentioned during the SC Professional Practice Orientation), the deadline for starting Step 1 of the CPS Application Process (completing the CPS Application Google form) is December 20^th. That means you have between December 1^st and December 20^th to complete Step 1. Since this is a hard deadline, if you do not complete Step 1 of the process before December 20^th, you will not be able to intern at a CPS school. Any specific questions about the CPS application process should be emailed to counselorintern@cps.edu.

Hinsdale South High School is seeking applicants for a school counseling internship at Hinsdale South High School for the 25-26 school year. Interviews with potential intern candidates typically occur in November or December. Interested candidates should send an email expressing interest with their resume to set up an interview to Michael Holland at mholland@hinsdale86.org.

Hinsdale South is a fantastic venue for interning. We are economically diverse (about 29% low income), ethnically diverse (16% Black, 18% Hispanic, 10% Asian), and high achieving. I think we offer interns the ideal platform to hone a skill set that can serve any student population.

Hinsdale South Viewbook

• Helping support post-secondary exposure planning
  • i.e., submitting trip slips to main office for approval, getting quotes for buses, securing lunch, and creating/distributing permission slips.
• Supporting enrollment process
  • gathering transcripts for counselors, ensuring all pertinent paperwork is uploaded to counselor files, drafting event flyers and sending outreach to families, partners and staff.
• Support counseling staff with organizing and executing push-in and pull-out lessons/sessions including communications to staff.
• Supporting planning and execution of all year long student events (field trips, senior events, post-secondary events).
• Outreach to families/guardian of students in jeopardy of failing classes and scheduling meetings with student, family, counselor(s)/teacher(s) to create remediation plans.
• They will also be responsible for overseeing the counseling suite to ensure that students have appointments and supporting students & counselors with completing tasks
  • i.e., supporting counselors, partners and staff with ensuring that students have appropriate guided supports such as how to properly complete and submit a Common App., how to request letters of recommendation, how to register to retake the SAT on College Board, etc.