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CWHC Job Posting

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CWHC Staff Counselor Full-Time Job Description

Chicago Women’s Health Center (CWHC) is searching for a new full-time Staff Counselor to join our Counseling Committee! The Staff Counselor provides counseling services using a feminist relational framework, helps shape and support the Counseling program, and participates in a 45+ year old feminist collective. We are looking for candidates who align closely with the mission of Chicago Women’s Health Center and who can join us in strategic imagining and planning for the future.

Candidates for the position must have strong assessment, therapeutic, and crisis intervention skills and need to possess an Illinois license (LSW, LPC, LCSW, LCPC, LMFT, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, or Psy.D.) or complete licensure exam within 4-6 months of start date.

Applications are due June 18, 2021. To apply, email application materials to counselorhiring@chicagowomenshealthcenter.org, including “Staff Counselor Application” in the subject heading. Please address your cover letter to the Counseling Committee Hiring Team, and include your resume with three references (including your most recent clinical supervisor).

People of all backgrounds, particularly people of color and trans/gender expansive individuals, are encouraged to apply.

From the Office of the Dean: We Want Your Opinion!

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CSL Students –

Please take the time to have a voice in how the College of Education will plan for 2021-22!   Please use the following link to complete a SHORT survey that includes questions about the delivery/modality of classes and what services are important to you!  We will randomly award 10 – $25 Amazon gift cards (raffle) to those students who submit surveys.

You can access the survey at: https://rebrand.ly/COE_Student_Survey

Call to Action: Witness Slips Needed – Telehealth & Parity

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CALL TO ACTION

File witness slips in support for the 5/19 4:30 PM Committee Hearing!
How to File a Witness Slip:

  • Section I, please enter your contact information. If you are submitting the witness slip in your personal capacity and not on behalf of an organization, you may enter “citizen” or “self” in this field. If you are empowered to represent an organization, for firm/business, please list that organization. More weight is given to those with businesses listed.
  • Section II, list the organization you are empowered to represent. If you are submitting the witness slip in your personal capacity and not on behalf of an organization, you may enter “citizen” or “self” in this field.
  • Section III, click “Proponent”
  • Section IV, click “Record of Appearance Only”
Support HB 3498
HB 3498 – Telehealth Coverage

Fact Sheet

  • Bars insurers from requiring patients to prove a hardship or access barrier in order to receive healthcare services through telehealth.
  • Prohibits geographic or facility restrictions on telehealth services, allowing patients to be treated via telehealth in their home.
  • Protects patient preference by establishing that a patient cannot be required to use telehealth services.
  • Ensures patients will not be required to use a separate panel of providers or practitioners to receive telehealth services.
  • Aligns telehealth practice with privacy laws for in-person practice, while giving healthcare providers the professional latitude to determine the appropriateness of specific sites and technology platforms for telehealth services.
  • Aligns telehealth coverage and payment with in-person care, making appropriate patient access to care the priority and removing harmful barriers that shift costs to the patient and healthcare provider.
    • Equal coverage eliminates policy loopholes that allow insurers to create separate telehealth networks which ship tax dollars to out-of-state providers that work outside of a patient’s care team.
Support HB 2595
HB 2595 – Mental Health Parity

Amends the Illinois Insurance Code to ensure that all Medicaid MCOs and commercial insurer medical necessity determinations concerning mental health and substance use disorders are fully consistent with generally accepted standards of care.

  • Establishes a clear definition and standards for when services and treatment qualify as medically necessary.
  • Requires insurers to rely on the transparent, publicly available guidelines published by nonprofit clinical societies for mental health disorder medical necessity determinations, as Illinois already requires for substance use disorders.
  • Requires insurers to cover all medically necessary mental health and substance use disorder care and explicitly prohibits insurers from limiting benefits to short-term, acute care or from excluding certain levels of care (e.g., residential treatment).
  • Encourages compliance with Illinois’ parity law by making sure illegal practices are appropriately penalized.
Please consider contacting your Senator directly and requesting their support of these bills! The passage of each is integral for our profession!

Directions to Find your Senator

  • Click here which takes you to the Illinois State Board of Elections website
  • Scroll to just under the map of Illinois and enter your address in the box
  • Click to “find” your address
  • Click to “confirm” your address
  • Scroll past the first elected official listed as this is your congressman – the second elected official is your Senator–Senate District – and their contact information.

We recommend calling their Springfield office, but either is appreciated.

Counselor Job Opening

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LivingWell is a non-profit organization under the umbrella of Northwestern Medicine with a location in Geneva, IL and a new location opening in Warrenville, IL.  We provide free services to cancer patients and their families and those who have experienced a cancer related loss.  We are currently hiring for a full-time therapist.  We are currently providing services virtually but hope to be providing services in person again by the end of the summer.  We would prefer an LCPC for this position, but would consider LPC or LCSW.  Please let me know if you have any questions and pass this opening along to any graduates who  might be interested.  Below is a link to LivingWell as well as the job posting.

 

www.livingwellcrc.org

 

https://jobs.nm.org/job/-/-/27763/7077802848?trid=0a219b99-3909-48ff-8857-e22bca3965a6

 

Thank you,

Missy

 

Missy Petty, M.Ed, LCPC

she/her/hers
Lead Oncology Counselor

LivingWell Cancer Resource Center​

Northwestern Medicine

442 Williamsburg Avenue

Geneva, IL 60134

630-262-1111 office

630-262-1110 fax

mpetty@livingwellcrc.org

livingwellcrc.org

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Full-Time Family Therapist Job Opportunity

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Maine Township’s MaineStay Youth & Family Services in Park Ridge (mainetown.com/mainestay) is seeking to hire a full-time Family Therapist. Candidates may apply prior to completion of degree, but this position does require a master’s degree in marriage and family therapy, counseling, psychology, or a related field; experience working with youth and families; excellent communication, organizational, and computer skills; and the ability to work day and evening hours. Excellent benefits. To apply, please email cover letter and resume to MaineStay Director Richard Lyon at rlyon@mainetown.com. For more information about the job please visit https://www.indeed.com/job/family-therapist-f147ef147a1b2043.