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MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS. Date: Monday, May 10, 2021 Time: 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. CST Location: Online Event Pricing: Free. May is Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to raise awareness of those living with mental or behavioral health issues and to help reduce the stigma so many experience. |
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Participate in Interview to Hire Counseling Faculty Today!
Greetings Counseling Students,
As you know, DePaul will be hiring two non-tenure track counseling faculty members next year. We will be inviting candidates for final round interviews this month. As graduate counseling students, you have the opportunity to virtually meet each candidate in a small group setting and are invited to attend their virtual teaching presentations. This is a very important decision and we welcome and value your input.
Date: Wednesday, April 21st
Candidate: Okenna Egwu
Presentation: Clinical Assessment from 2:45-3:45pm via zoom: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/99757104782
Evaluation Form: https://forms.gle/k2nS9vNSFrsTGgPy9
Student meeting from 3:45-4:15pm via zoom: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/99654484925
Evaluation Form: https://forms.gle/pFeVLpG8bthEMPJk7
We hope you have a chance to meet this candidate and provide important feedback for the search committee. If you participate, please complete the feedback forms on the day of the interview.
Feel free to be in touch with any questions!
Minds Matter Program Coordinator Opportunity
Program Coordinator Job Description – Minds Matter Chicago
Hello everyone!
I am a current third-year school counseling student at DePaul, and I wanted to pass along an excellent job opportunity. Minds Matter Chicago is a college access and mentorship program serving high school students across Chicago. I currently work there as their Program Coordinator. They would specifically like to hire another DePaul counseling student next school year. I have found the job to work well alongside my internship and class schedule. It’s also a great resume-builder! This would be a great opportunity for current first or second year counseling students. If you would like to talk more about the position before applying, I am happy to do so. You can email me at aliza.rosenfeld@gmail.com.
Thank you!
Aliza Rosenfeld
DePaul’s Career Center Success Stories
Check out the DePaul’s Career Center Success Stories, featuring several of our phenomenal alumni including Megan Buoniconti, Kirsten Perry, Brian Coleman, and Kathryn Jackson!
https://blogs.depaul.edu/stories/?utm_campaign=Daily_042021&utm_medium=email&utm_source=EOACLK
Thresholds Chicago South Job Opportunity
IPS Employment Specialist
Job Category: Staff
Requisition Number: IPSEM04980
Posting Details
Posted: April 5, 2021
- Full-Time
Bridge Southeast
Chicago, IL, USA
Job Details
Description
Is social justice important to you? Consider joining our innovative team by becoming an Individual Placement Support Employment Specialist! Working at Thresholds means making a difference in someone’s life every day. For decades, Thresholds has provided direct mental health and substance use treatments in Chicago’s communities.
Employment Specialist
The Employment Specialist works with all members on their team who would like to or are thinking about obtaining a job by following the components of the Supported Employment Evidence‐Based Practice (SE EBP). Assisting members in obtaining and maintaining employment that is consistent with their vocational and recovery goals is at the core of SE. The specialist will be required to spend at least 60% of direct service time in the community to engage and support consumers, family members, and employers
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- Learns about and embrace the core values of Supported Employment Evidence-Based Practice (SE EBP): Eligibility is based on member choice, SE is integrated with mental health treatment, competitive employment is the goal, the search for a job begins rapidly, job finding is individualized, and follow‐along supports are continuous.
- Discusses and encourage the realization of work as central to the recovery process when talking with members, staff, employers, funders, and advocates.
- Assesses members’ vocational functioning on an ongoing basis utilizing background information, personal preferences, and work experiences.
- Assists members in job development and job search activities directed toward positions that are consistent with the needs and interests of members on his/her caseload and/or team, following the principles and procedures of SE EBP.
- Provides individualized, time-unlimited follow along services to assist consumers in sustaining employment.
- Provides education and support to the employer, as agreed upon by the member, which may include negotiating job accommodations and follow along contact with the employer.
- Provides outreach services as necessary to consumers when they appear to disengage from the service. Maintains some contact with consumers even without a vocational focus if necessary to sustain engagement.
- Meets regularly with treatment team members to coordinate and integrate employment services into Thresholds’ service plan. This requires direct supervision of a QMHP or LPHA in cooperation with the member, their families, the psychiatrist, collaborating agencies and others as necessary.
- Draws up the individual employment service plan with the consumer, case manager, and other treatment team providers and updates it quarterly. Completes all assigned paperwork accurately, thoroughly and in a timely fashion, this may include DRS, DMH, and Thresholds research.
- Meets required billing targets and completes all documentation within assigned time frames.
- Other duties as assigned.
MARGINAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
- May be required to work a flexible schedule including evenings and weekends.
Requirements
- Access to a personal vehicle for daily business use.
EDUCATION
- Bachelor’s degree in mental health, social services, or business (e.g., marketing, human resources, communications, public relations) with the aptitude to engage both consumers and employers in obtaining and maintaining rewarding employment.
- Experience may be substituted at the supervisor’s discretion.
EXPERIENCE
- Knowledge and experience in job development, job marketing and job securing.
- Working knowledge of a brand range of occupations and jobs.
- Knowledge of long-term mental illness, including treatment and medication, and the impact of illness on vocational functioning preferred.
- Computer efficiency, including the ability to use email, navigate and enter notes into electronic medical records is required.
- Daily access to a personal vehicle is required. Must obtain and maintain $100,000/$300,000/$100,000 liability insurance coverage. Subject to validation every 6 months.
- May be required to provide transportation for members of the program using a Thresholds provided vehicle or personal vehicle. Must be 23 years of age and must meet all insurance carrier’s requirements. Subject to the annual Department of Motor Vehicles license verification.
- Service men and women are preferred
SKILLS/CERTIFICATIONS
- Current and valid Driver’s license.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Ability to travel and maneuver between Program locations.
- Light work: Exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negotiable amount of force constantly to move objects.
- The worker is subject to both environmental conditions: Activities occur inside and outside.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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Research Study Participant Opportunity
Dear Potential Participate,
Our names are Dr. Ann Melvin and Dr. Rosanne Nunnery. We are core faculty at Capella University in the School of Social and Behavioral Sciences. We are completing a research student titled: Counselors-in-training attitudes of clients diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) has approved this study.
I am recruiting potential participates who are currently enrolled in a CACREP accredited master’s in Clinical Mental Health Counseling program (CMHC). Counselors will need to be currently enrolled in a CMHC degree program. Your participation in this study is strictly voluntary. There are no perceived benefits or risks for participating in the study. However, your responses will help me understand the perceptions of working with clients diagnosed with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
If you choose to participate in the study, you will be asked to complete an online questionnaire. The questionnaire will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. You will be asked to provide selected information about yourself; however, you will not be asked to provide your name. All data are anonymous and will be located on a secure server.
Attached is the Informed Consent Form, which must be reviewed and signed prior to participation.
By participating in the study, you are giving this researcher permission to use your responses for the research study only. You can access the questionnaire at the following secure web address:
Link: https://capelladoctoral.iad1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7VUgRIXb4lsN7A9
If you have any questions pertaining to this study or if you would like a summary of the results when the study is complete, please feel free to contact me at ann.melvin@capella.edu and rosanne.nunnery@capella.edu.
Thank you for your participation.
Ann Melvin Ph.D., CRC, CADC, LCPC
Rosanne Nunnery Ph.D., LPC-S, NCC, BC-TMH
Graduate Student Collective
We’d like to invite you all to the Kick-Off for our Graduate Student Collective happening next week, Thursday, April 21st from 12PM-1:30PM. Here is the meeting link https://tinyurl.com/56ccchs5.
The graduate student collective is a coalition of DePaul graduate students with the goal of participating in thought-provoking conversations that highlight various dimensions of life. The topics range from health and wellness, social justice, growth, and development. We are dedicated to connecting graduate students with the DePaul community, such as faculty and staff, to increase the growth and success of all graduate students within the DePaul Community.
Career Advisor Opening
Actualize Coding Bootcamp FT Career Advisor Job Description
This opening would be a good fit for graduating 3rd years or recent grads with a couple years of experience.
The hiring manager is a DePaul alumna Lisa Tucker lisa@actualize.co