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Practicum and Internship Placements

This list of agencies serves as a reference. Additional placements besides those shown here may be acceptable. Programs are in the Cedar City area except as noted. Do not contact any agency directly regarding a placement without first talking with Marsha Bloom in the Southern Utah University Psychology Department.

Children
- CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) works with abused, neglected or abandoned children (birth through 17) and making recommendations to the juvenile court.
- Family Support Center of Southwestern Utah provides services to dysfunctional families and shelter for abused children.
- Head Start prepares pre-school children for school.
- Also see SCHOOLS and Utah Dept. of Human Services.
Youth Corrections
- Cross Creek Manor (LaVerkin, Utah) works with adolescent girls in a residential facility.
- Fifth District Juvenile Court (Cedar City and St. George offices) offers virtually all aspects of juvenile probation work.
- Iron County Youth Center is a program that serves truant, run-away, and other youth who need temporary shelter.
- Raindancer Youth Services provides residential services for Native American (usually Navajo) youth ages 14 to 17.
- Turnabout Ranch (Escalante) works with troubled teens in a working Western Ranch setting.
- Utah State Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Corrections, Southwest Utah Youth Center - Detention provides custodial care for youth awaiting court adjudication.
- Utah State Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Services, Southwest Utah Youth Center - Long Term Placement provides individual and group therapy with adjudicated youth who are serving sentences at the facility.
- Utah State Department of Human Services, Division of Youth Corrections, Youth Crisis Center (Washington County) provides custodial care for youth awaiting court adjudication.
- Youth and Families with Promise connects SUU students with youth who already have engaged in minor delinquent behavior or who are considered likely to enter the juvenile justice system - an early intervention program.
Developmental Disabilities
- Chrysalis serves developmentally or behaviorally disabled adult men in residential settings.
- Danville Services Corporation teaches job readiness skills to mentally handicapped adults.
- Deseret Industries (Cedar City and St. George) provides job training for people with disabilities.
- Turn Community Services offers residential and day treatment services to developmentally disabled persons.
- Also see Utah Dept. of Human Services, Division of Services for People with Disabilities.
Drug and Alcohol
- Horizon House serves adults with drug and alcohol addictions and their families.
Health and Medical Services
- Kolob Regional Care and Rehabilitation Center Supportive counseling with patients in the nursing home setting.
- Dixie Regional Medical Center (St. George)
  - A) Social Services Department; Placement offers wide range of social work/counseling type experiences as related to a medical setting.
  - B) Home Health; Assists patients and families who are coping with in home social needs that are related to a current illness.
  - C) Hospice; Involves working with terminally ill patients and their families in a home setting.
- Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation Department (Cedar City) Placement involves assisting the physical therapist with psychological factors among patients.
- St. George Care Center (St. George) Nursing home setting serving convalescing and chronically ill.
- Valley View Medical Center (Cedar City)
  - A) Social Services Department; Placement offers wide range of social work/counseling type experiences as related to a medical setting.
  - B) Physical Therapy Department; placement involves assisting the physical therapist with psychological factors among patients.
Industrial/Organizational
- Economic Development Department for Cedar City/Iron County Placement involves working on future Cedar City area development projects; (industrial psychology type work).
Mental Health
- Central Utah Mental Health/Alcohol and Drug Center (Delta, Utah) - Placement parallels Southwest Utah Mental Health/Alcohol and Drug Center; i.e. wide range of state provided mental health services.
- Intermountain Special Abuse Treatment Center (ISAT) - Involves serving as a co-therapist in group therapy for sex offenders at the adult prison, offenders living in the community, and victims of sex abuse.
- LDS Family Services - Placement offers a limited range of social service experience such as counseling, family intervention, and adoptions; summer placements especially difficult
- Southwest Center (Mental Health)
  - A) Clinical/Counseling Services: Adult counseling, case management and family support services.
  - B) Prevention Services Program: Placement involves preventative education work regarding alcohol and drug abuse in schools, community groups and agencies.
  - C) Oasis House Adult Specialty Services: Involves working with mental health patients in day programs.
  - D) Eagle Quest Youth Specialty Services Program: Wide range of counseling/therapy/skills development program for youth.
  - E) Horizon House: Well structured adult drug/alcohol addiction program.
  - F) Mountain View Group: Home for Mentally Ill: Involves working with clients in a community setting.
  - G) Early Family Intervention Program Work with abused, neglected or abandoned children.
- Southwest Center (Mental Health) (St. George)
  - A) Youth Specialty Services Program: Work with youth by providing skill training and counseling .
  - B) Independence House: Involves working with mental health patients in day programs.
  - C) Drug Rehabilitation and Prevention: Involves working with alcohol and drug prevention and rehabilitation program.
Native American
- Paiute Indian Tribe Social Services Department: Wide range of opportunities providing direct interventions, education and services to children, youth and adults.
- Raindancer Youth Services: Involves working with six to ten behavior problem, Native American (usually Navajo) youth ages 14 to 17.
Schools
- Iron County School District
  - East Elementary School: Iron County Schools Special Education & Early Childhood Intervention; Placement involves working with special needs children.
  - Fiddler's Canyon Elementary School: Usual range of opportunities to work with children of K-5 age range; special education program.
  - North Elementary
    - A) Usual range of opportunities to work with children of K-5 age range.
    - B) After School Program
  - South Elementary School: Usual range of opportunities to work with children of K-5 age range.
  - Cross Hollows Intermediate School Guidance Department
  - Cedar City High School Guidance Department: Placement involves working in the guidance office doing personal and/or academic counseling with Cedar High students.
  - Canyon View High School Guidance Department: Placement involves working with guidance counselor and students.
  - School Psychology: Placement involves participation in psychological testing, teacher consultation, student and family counseling, diagnostic testing, collection of observational data.
  - Special Education Programs:
    - A) Pre-School Program: Placement offers wide range of service opportunities with severely disabled children.
    - B) Speech and Language Program:
      Opportunity to participate in offering speech & language services.
    - C) Youth In Custody & At Risk Youth Program, Middle School: Program serves adjudicated youth in custody of the courts.
    - D) Youth In Custody & At Risk Youth Program, Cedar High School: Program serves adjudicated youth in custody of the courts.
Shelters and Crisis Care
- Canyon Creek Women's Shelter: Assisting women and children of domestic abuse/violence in a shelter setting.
- Dove Center Women's Shelter (St. George): Assisting women and children of domestic abuse/violence in a shelter setting.
- Family Support Center of Southwestern Utah: Placement involves working with dysfunctional children and families.
- Iron County Care and Share Shelter: Placement involves supervising the shelter and doing wide range of custodial services. Little clinical work, but opportunity to interact with transients.
- Iron County Youth Center: This program serves truant, run-away, and other youth who need temporary shelter.
- Victim Advocate Services: Wide range of opportunities to assist victims of crime.
Southern Utah University
- Athletic Department: Placement involves sports psychology applications.
- Psychology Department: Placement involves working as a research assistant, organizing projects for Psi Chi, peer assistance or wide range of other options.
- Student Support Services
- Student Development Center: Personal, academic and career counseling for SUU students.
- Turning Point Program: Program serves displaced homemakers/non-traditional students.
- Upward Bound Program: Placement involves program development, workshop presentations & direct counseling with economically or academically disadvantaged students; greatest need is in spring and summer.
- Wellness Center: Placement offers:
  - A) SUU student substance abuse offenders classes and groups
  - B) Peer counseling on an outreach basis for SUU students; wide range of opportunities
Utah State Department of Human Services
- Utah State Department of Human Services
  - Division of Adult and Aging Services
  - Division of Child and Family Services: Placement involves direct work with child abuse families, case management and counseling of foster children.
  - Children's Protective Services: Students accompany social worker on home investigations of suspected child abuse; counseling with families victims of abuse.
  - Youth Services:Crisis intervention, counseling, parent education & youth advocacy.
- Utah State Department of Human Services (Kanab, Utah): Placement involves aid to families work.
- Utah State Department of Human Services (Manti/Fillmore, Utah): Placement offers wide range of opportunities.
- Utah State Department of Human Services (St. George, Utah): Placement involves aid to families type work.
Youth Programs
- Academy at Cedar Mountain: Residential treatment program for male/female youth, ages 12-18.
- Cross Creek Manor: Involves working with adolescent girls in a residential facility as counselor, case manager and activity supervisor.
- Kolob Canyon Residential Treatment Center (New Harmony, Utah): Residential treatment program for adolescent girls, ages 14-17.
- Moonridge (Remote Location West of Cedar City): Residential treatment program for adolescent girls, ages 12-15.
- Raindancer Youth Services: Involves working with six to ten behavior problem, Native American (usually Navajo) youth ages 14 to 17.
- Red Cliff Ascent (Beryl, Utah): Wilderness Program
- Sorensen's Ranch (Koosharem, Utah): Placement involves working with troubled teens. Set in a real life, working Western Ranch. Concentration is on developing life skills.
- Triumph Youth Services (Toquerville, Utah): Residential program for male youth offenders.
- Turnabout Ranch (Escalante): Placement involves working with troubled teens. Set in a real life, working Western Ranch. Concentration is on developing life skills.
- Youth and Families with Promise: Program connects SUU students with youth who already have engaged in minor delinquent behavior or who are considered likely to enter the juvenile justice system - an early intervention program.
- * See Mental Health, Corrections, and Utah Dept. of Human Services
Other
- LDS Family Services: Placement offers limited range of social service experience such as counseling, family intervention, and adoptions; summer placements are not available.
- All placements are in the Cedar City, Iron County are unless otherwise indicated.

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