Social Work Internships
Legal Services for Children offers internships for graduate level social work students.
Students have the opportunity to work in interdisciplinary teams with LSC social workers and attorneys on cases involving foster care, legal guardianship, school discipline, special education, and immigration.
Employing interdisciplinary teams of attorneys and social workers, LSC strives to meet the legal and non-legal needs of our clients. Social work interns at LSC provide clients with direct clinical case management services, including psychosocial assessments, treatment planning, crisis intervention, and general advocacy.
LSC provides interns with an intake orientation as well as the following trainings:
- Crisis Intervention
- Boundaries & Termination
- Cultural Competency
- Legal Guardianship
- Dependency (foster care)
- Education
- Immigration
LSC’s clinical social work team also provides interns with weekly individual supervisions and encourages interns to attend relevant offsite trainings.
Higher education institutions of past LSC social work interns include:
- San Francisco State University
- San Jose State University
- University of California Berkeley
- G.W. Brown School of Social Work Washington University
- McGill University School of Social Work
- Smith College School for Social Work
- University of Texas Austin
For more information about this internship, contact Clinical Director Ron Gutierrez.
Bilingual/bicultural candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. To promote social justice and best serve our clients, LSC is committed to maintaining a diverse staff and providing services with cultural humility. We are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of equity, diversity, and inclusion and ensuring a workplace where staff can flourish and grow professionally and well beyond. We strongly encourage candidates from traditionally underrepresented communities and historically oppressed groups including BIPOC and LGBTQ people to apply.