This internship seeks to develop an appreciation for the provision of service to a diverse client population in regard to age, ethnicity, language of preference, socioeconomic status/history, education, and the mental disorder at hand, sexual orientation, and gender identity, among other areas of variation. Both Gateways CONREP's clients and staff come from diverse backgrounds and all walks of life, allowing for a broad range of multicultural training. Additionally, in this setting, staff provide services to a population which is traditionally underserved and stigmatized, not only secondary to their severe mental illness, but also due to their offender status. Gateways CONREP strives to reinforce the necessity of providing high quality services to such groups, to ensure that one's background and culture is always taken into consideration when treatment planning, that the individual is viewed from a bio-psychosocial perspective, and that the clinician recognizes and addresses known biases that can impede efforts to advance the welfare of our clients. Of note, Gateways CONREP contracts with translation services to provide clients with therapy in their preferred languages, and several staff members speak Spanish, allowing for Spanish-speaking individual therapy and group therapy. This internship seeks to achieve the aforementioned by offering both formal and informal training on multicultural issues throughout the training year.

Spanish, Mandarin, Russian