Clinician

The Trauma Section of the Child Study Center at the Yale School of Medicine seeks applications for a Clinician to join the leadership of an innovative clinical service at the Childhood Violent Trauma Clinic (CVTC). The successful candidate will take a senior position on the clinical team, providing leadership to the Child Development-Community Policing Program (CD-CP) and oversight of clinical services, including direct supervision of psychologists, social workers and child psychiatry fellows and junior faculty.  The CVTC provides a number of services for children, adolescents and families exposed to violence and offers a range of treatments and interventions for those struggling with traumatic reactions and disorders. A unique aspect of the clinical program is the focus on providing intervention early after a potentially traumatic event (PTE) in an effort to prevent negative long-term psychological reactions. Two centerpieces of these Trauma Section efforts are:  (1) The Child Development-Community Policing Program (CD-CP), a law enforcement-mental health collaboration that has been in place in New Haven for more than two decades.  The first of its kind to have broad reach, the CD-CP program has been used as a model for law enforcement-mental health partnerships across the country; and (2) The Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention (CFTSI), a brief, evidence-based early intervention for children 7 to 18 years old which reduces traumatic stress reactions and PTSD. CFTSI was developed at Yale to enhance communication about the impact of the PTE, enhance parental support of the affected child and to form the basis of a comprehensive evaluation and treatment recommendations for children impacted by traumatic and catastrophic events. The Childhood Violent Trauma Clinic also provides treatment for children with posttraumatic stress disorder following circumscribed traumatic events, and for children with other disorders and functional difficulties that result from chronic traumatization.

Baystate Family Advocacy Center, a program of the Baystate Children's Hospital and a nationally accredited Child Advocacy Center, has an immediate opportunity for a full-time licensed clinician to join our mental health team of therapists who provide individual, family and group treatment to children and adolescents who have experienced trauma related to abuse, community violence or domestic violence. 

This position is part of our newly funded Homicide Bereavement Program providing support and therapeutic services to co-victims of homicide, which may include family, friends and/or community members.

The Clinician is involved in the start-up and implementation of the program as well as providing the direct therapeutic and support/advocacy services, and is a member of a multidisciplinary team of clinicians and will provide trauma-informed assessments as well as individual and group therapy to individuals impacted by homicide.

The Behavioral Health Clinician will be facilitating time-limited trauma and grief-focused therapy groups for children/adults (depending on community need), long-term support groups for adults, individual trauma and grief-focused therapy for children/adolescents/families, assistance and advocacy with court, medical and criminal justice procedures, including support with delivering victim impact statements, filing for Victim Compensation for crime related expenses, support for dealing with the media, and referrals to appropriate community services. The Clinician will also collaborate with key community partners including the Hampden County District Attorney’s Victim Witness Program to provide coordinated services.