Clinical Intern

Show your passion by empowering youth and families when joining the Wayside team!

Wayside is one of Massachusetts' most respected youth and family-serving agencies, supporting more than 6,000 youth and families annually across Central, Eastern, and Northeastern regions.

Wayside offers a learning environment - free trainings, CEUs, and individual/group supervision. We provide a teamwork atmosphere and career development support - a great place to grow your career!!!

Final year grad students are eligible for a stipend!

Clinical Intern - Fall of 2026

Lowell Community Based Services - In-Home Therapy

Program Address: 77 East Merrimack Street Lowell, Massachusetts 01852

P: 978-221-6923 F: 978-221-6924

Contact: Graciela Lugo, Home Base Clinician and Supervisor

978-349-4166, graciela_lugo@waysideyouth.org

Field Instructors: 1 LICSW

Number of site trainees:

CORI check: Yes
Car needed: Yes. Driving in the community is a requirement of this position; please ensure you have a valid driver's license and access to a reliable vehicle.

Home visits: Yes.
Travel reimbursement: Yes.
Language skills: Spanish, Portuguese and Khmer strongly encouraged to apply.

Stipends: $5,000.00/year for final year MA students with an additional $1,000.00 for language differential.

Mandatory schedule: Weekly staff meetings held every Wednesday from 9:00 am to 11:00 am is a mandatory part of the internship as well as an agency wide onboarding preserve training.

Program description and training opportunities:

Wayside Lowell provides a variety of in-home, community-based services designed to protect, preserve and reunify families. Services are delivered by a team of Master's level clinicians, Bachelor's level Youth & Family Support Workers, and Family Partners. The services offered range from In-Home Therapy, Intensive Care Coordination, Family Support & Training and Therapeutic Mentoring. Treatment is generally intensive in nature and delivered using a strength-based, resilience-focused, wraparound philosophy.

Wayside Lowell seeks Master's level interns who are in their second/final year of graduate program and available for a minimum of 20 hours per week who can commit to a full academic year (August - May). Scheduling must be flexible to meet the needs of the families assigned. Interns generally carry about 3-4 IHT cases. Clients are referred from the local school system, Department of Children and Families, Department of Mental Health, and a variety of community and mental health providers. Referrals to services are designed to address such issues as behavior management, mental health symptom management, crisis stabilization, family conflict, substance abuse, household management, parent education, access to resources and more. Using the IHT Practice Profile model, clinicians collaborate with families and system partners to provide comprehensive assessments, goal formulation, therapeutic, evidence-based intervention, care coordination, and advocacy. This is an excellent placement for confident students who will receive ample support from a strong clinical team and will also function autonomously in the community. Individual supervision is provided weekly by an independently licensed supervisor. Group supervision is also provided on a monthly basis by an independently licensed clinician. Clinical and/or academic exposure to family work is recommended.

Other roles may be considered pending students' needs and interests.

Internship Requirements:

• Second/final year placement.
• Minimum of 20 hours per week, with flexible schedule including late afternoons and early evenings.
• Must attend weekly staff meeting held every Wednesday 9:30 am - 11:00 am.
• Driving in the community is a requirement of this position; please ensure you have a valid driver's license and access to a reliable vehicle.

About Wayside: Founded in 1977, Wayside Youth & Family Support Network is a non-profit, nationally accredited human service agency headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts dedicated to building strength, hope and resiliency in youth, families and our local communities. Wayside is one of Massachusetts' most respected child and family serving agencies with 19 program locations across Central, Eastern and Northeastern Massachusetts serving more than 6,000 children, young adults and families each year.

Wayside staff and clinicians provide community trainings in schools to mental health providers and in collaboration with community partners. Wayside is a teaching and training facility that provides graduate and undergraduate students with internships and clinical placement.