Social Work Intern
Mobile Loaves & Fishes
- Austin, TX
- $15.00-20.00 per hour
- Training
- Part-time
- Conduct intensive case management and care coordination to increase neighbors' access to
- and engagement in mental and primary health care, substance use treatment, financial management, and overall self-sufficiency.
- Build and deepen meaningful relationships with our formerly homeless neighbors, while
- providing outreach to determine areas of need, increase neighbor's participation in
- their treatment and connect neighbors to appropriate resources.
- Work closely with on-site partner agencies such as Family Eldercare, Integral Care, Life Anew, and Communities for Recovery. Provide warm handoffs between neighbors and partners and help determine barriers to connection.
- Assist with programs such as the Central Texas Food Bank's FARMacy Truck, monthly food box delivery, MLF's Rent Success Team, and other resource connection events/programs.
- Attend regularly scheduled staff and Neighbor Care team meetings.
- Assist MLF and Neighbor Care team in achieving our goals, especially caring for neighbors.
- Other Duties & Responsibilities as needed.
- Commitment to serving those who have experienced homelessness and personal alignment with MLF's vision, mission, core values, and goals.
- Currently pursuing a degree in social work- Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) or Master of Social Work (MSW) students will be considered.
- Must have a valid driver's license.
- MLF is a faith-based organization whose ideals and philosophy come directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As an organization, we strive to reflect this precept in our communications, both internally and externally.
- Social Work Interns focus on the 9 Core Competencies of the Social Work profession and apply theories of human behavior and the social environment during their time here at the village.
- Social Work Interns learn to demonstrate ethical and professional behavior, engage in diversity and difference within their practice, advance human rights through social, economic, and environmental justice, engage in practice-informed research and research-informed practice, gain understanding of the historical and current structures of social policies and services that impact our neighbors.
- Social Work Interns will learn to consistently engage, assess, intervene, and evaluate their progress with neighbors.
- Estimated length of program: 8 to 12 weeks, beginning Summer 2024.
- Working in our office onsite.
- Must be comfortable completing home visits with neighbors, and potentially assisting/accompanying neighbors at off-site appointments.
- Transform the way people view the stereotype of those who find themselves homeless
- Reconnect the homeless to self, family and community
- Help the chronically homeless rediscover and utilize their God-given talents to do purposeful work
- Connect human to human, heart to heart through the fellowship of food and hospitality
- Inspire people into a lifestyle of abundance by giving their best first
- The vision is supported by belief statements centered on our belief that homelessness is the result of a profound, catastrophic loss of family:
- God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life
- By virtue of being created by God in His image, we are all called to live in community and relationship with Him through each other
- The family is the original cell of social life
- You shall love your neighbor as yourself
- All members of the human family are equal in dignity
- The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. Gen 2:15
- Faith: We define Faith as the foundational belief that our world and all our work belong to God. This allows us to engage our work with joy and lightheartedness, knowing that we are not ultimately in control.
- Humility: We define Humility as rightly viewing oneself as a single piece of a grander story. This humility leads to a view of oneself that is neither too high nor too low.
- Generous Spirit: We define a Generous Spirit as a readiness to give more grace, mercy, and hospitality than is necessary or expected. This posture allows us to see others for who they are, not what they do.
- Integrity: We define Integrity as a wholehearted commitment to doing right by God, ourselves, and others. This wholeheartedness shows itself in consistently choosing honesty, responsibility and ownership in all actions and decisions.