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Adler Community Health Services (ACHS), a center of Adler University, provides students the opportunity to learn trauma- and evidence-informed mental health and substance use services alongside interprofessional teams in local agencies serving vulnerable communities in the greater Chicago and Vancouver metro areas.
ACHS is composed of three divisions: Division of Community Health Chicago; Division of Teen Wellness and Opportunity; and Division of Community Health Vancouver.
The Division of Community Health Chicago and the Division of Teen Wellness and Opportunity offer APA-accredited doctoral internship programs for students in the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology program. Both divisions are members of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) and participate in the APPIC match process.
The Division of Community Health Chicago has six to nine APA-accredited internship positions for Adler Chicago and Vancouver Psy.D. students. The Division of Teen Wellness and Opportunity has three APA-accredited internship positions for Adler Chicago Psy.D. students. The Division of Community Health Vancouver has three to five internship positions annually and has designed its internship program to run the higher standard of Schedule H and Canadian Psychological Association internship requirements for students in the Doctor of Psychology in Clinical Psychology program at the Vancouver Campus. This Division is not accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association or the APA and does not participate in the APPIC match process. All three Divisions offer practica placements for students in multiple academic programs based on the number of available opportunities at its contracted clinical community partner sites.
ACHS forms partnerships with community-based service agencies that are unable to offer mental health services on their own or wish to increase their mental health services capacity. ACHS contracts with these community-based service agencies to deliver a wide range of mental health services provided through its student trainees and supervised by registered/licensed clinical supervisors. Clinical services students engage in individual and group psychotherapy; couple and family therapy; neuro-psychological, personality, and cognitive-ability assessment; support groups; parenting groups; consultation; program development and evaluation; and/or psychoeducational programs.
Interns and externs will be assigned to one or more community sites based on their interests, training and educational needs, availability of sites and opportunities, and the clinical skill level of the student trainees. In addition to providing direct clinical service, trainees receive individual, group, and peer supervision, may participate in case management and case disposition meetings, and attend didactic presentations and seminars.
For complete information on ACHS, please visit adler.edu/achs.
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