Internship Placements Available for 2026-27: 1

As the regional education service center (RESC) for Hartford Country, CREC’s mission is to promote equity, excellence, and success for all students from our 36 member districts through high-quality education services. As an intentionally diverse social justice organization, CREC is committed to affirming and honoring the lived experiences of others, to willingly challenge inherited beliefs and ideologies, and consequently learn, grow and serve. 

At CREC, interns will be an integral part of clinical day schools that provide intensive programming for students with significant behavioral needs. Students in our clinical day schools require specific, individualized supports to address these behavioral needs, which often stem from substantial histories of trauma, complex family systems, and difficulties with self-regulation that may present as aggression, non-compliance, withdrawal, avoidance, and/or a range of other behaviors. School settings that interns will be located in will therefore be small, specialized, and include students receiving special education services in grades K-12. 

Shortly upon arrival, interns will quickly learn that they will be expected to be part of the close communities of staff that share the same values related to compassion, integrity, commitment, and collaboration to promote positive outcomes for our youth. Between three locations (River Street Schools and Programs in Bloomfield and Windsor; Polaris Center in East Hartford), interns will be tasked and supervised in a variety of individual and group services. 

River Street Schools provide individualized services for neurodiverse students with high support needs utilizing approaches grounded in compassionate and trauma-informed Applied Behavior Analysis. Interns will support individualized behavioral and instructional programs as part of an instructional team consisting of teachers, paraeducators, behavior analysts, social workers, and school psychologists. Group interventions to support social-emotional development, depending on student need may be provided. 

At the Polaris Center, interns will provide direct counseling, assessment, and consultation services, as well as advance systems-level behavioral programming. Current systems-level programming includes implementation of universal Dialectical and Behavior Therapy (DBT) and trauma-specific group counseling interventions, CBITS and Bounce Back. Administration and completion of psychoeducational evaluations will consistently include complex child profiles that address a range of needs and extend beyond typical triennial evaluations for special education services. By working directly with both clinical psychologists and school psychologists as direct supervisors, interns will learn both educational and clinical perspectives within the school psychologist roles and competencies.

Note: This internship placement will meet the requirements for supervision towards licensure in Health Service Psychology. If interns are interested in completing hours towards certification in school psychology, options for meeting those hours post-internship can be discussed with their supervisors.

For more information, please visit: https://www.crec.org/ss/schools.php 

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