Wayside Youth & Family Support Network·Waltham, Massachusetts
Provide intensive, community-based individual, couples, and family therapy to protect and reunify families. Perform comprehensive assessments, case management, and advocacy for clients referred by state agencies and insurance companies.
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 - Graduate Community Services - Waltham Openings for Summer and Fall 2026 Contact: Tebogo Makhene, Assistant Site Director- 781-423-5214, tebogo_makhene@waysideyouth.org Location: Office located in Waltham.
Services can be provided either in the Waltham/Metro Boston/Middlesex region or in the Medford/Malden/Northeast region.
Description of Program: Wayside’s Waltham Community Based Services Site is accepting Graduate Level interns.
We provide a range of in-home, community-based services designed to protect, preserve, and reunify families within a wide geographical area.
Community-based clinicians provide individual, couples and family therapy.
Treatment is generally intensive in nature and delivered using a strengths-based, resiliency-focused philosophy.
Clinicians work with clients referred from the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Mental Health and a variety of insurance companies to address such issues as mental health symptom management, family systems dynamics, behavior management, substance abuse, budgeting, household management, parent education and more.
Clinicians provide comprehensive assessments and goal formulation, therapeutic intervention, case management, advocacy and concrete services such as transportation to appointments, assistance with accessing services, and referrals.
Interns are fully integrated into the team and will participate in agency-wide initiatives such as Motivational Interviewing, ARC, and Courageous Conversations.
This is an excellent internship for confident self-starters who will receive ample support from a strong clinical team and will also function autonomously in the community.
Clinical and/or academic exposure to family work is recommended.
Flexibility is required.
Final year graduate students preferred, though will consider strong first year students with relevant experience.
Final year interns may have the opportunity to carry one or two outpatient cases at the Waltham site.
Opportunities include co-facilitating Department of Mental Health activity-based groups for youth.
Field Instructors: 3 Number of Site Trainees: 3-4 CORI Check: Yes Car Needed: Yes.
Homes Visits: Yes Travel Reimbursement: Yes Language Skills: Not required, increased stipend for Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole and Mandarin speaking interns.
$5,000.00/year for final year MA students with an additional $1,000.00 for language differential.
Preferred
Mandatory
Schedule: Three days a week, one of which must be Tuesdays. Availability to see families during evening hours at least two nights a week, Minimum of 24 hours per week for final-year interns, Minimum of 20 hours per week for first-year interns. Attending 5 days of preservice.
Market context
In Massachusetts, clinical intern roles are often sought by students building supervised experience in health and human services settings, so openings can draw interest from candidates with similar academic backgrounds. This role is competitive because it requires a second- or final-year master’s student, a valid driver’s license, reliable vehicle access, and availability for at least 20 hours per week including two evenings. Before applying, confirm your schedule and transportation fit the role, and note that the job requirements and benefits here are AI-summarized from the original posting to save research time.
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