The University of South Dakota

Community Counseling Services 357 Kansas SE Huron, SD 57350 605-352-8596 Website

Agency Description

Community Counseling Services (CCS) is a private, non-profit community mental health center that provides behavioral health and outpatient services for the counties of Beadle, Hand, Jerauld, Miner, Lake and Moody in South Dakota. Services include:

• Outpatient mental health services
• Outpatient alcohol and drug services
• Outpatient children's mental health services
• Services for adults with severe, persistent mental illness
• Intensive services for adults with severe, persistent mental illness

Staff Information

Position Information

• Contract Training site (contracted with USD)
  
• Stipend: $12,480 per 12 months
• Hours per week: 16 hours per week/4 weeks per month
• Number of placement positions: 1
• Estimated distance from Vermillion: 186 miles
• Prior training & experience required of trainees: two years post bachelor's degree with testing skills and some exposure to counseling
• Prior training and experience preferred of trainees: master's degree, testing and counseling experience
• Strengths of this practicum experience: Opportunity to work with a wide range of populations with special focus on adult psychiatric population in a non-institutional setting and opportunity to complete disability evaluations
• Additional comments: CCS provides an excellent opportunity for self-motivated clinicians to practice with difficult consumers in a multi-disciplinary setting and learn to work in a team treatment environment.

Training Opportunities

M = major emphasis (all trainees involved)        
O = options for trainees (based on trainee interest or skills)

Proportion of practicum time spent in a typical month:

• Therapy: 54%
• Assessment (including conducting/scoring/preparing reports): 30%
• Other (staff meetings): 9%
• Receiving supervision: 6%
• Consultation: 1%