Examples of Possible Internship Placements and Names of Agencies that have employed CHS Alumni

List by agency type with employment of alumni in parentheses.

Developmental and other Disabilities

• Resource Center for Accessible Living (with which the CHS obtained a New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD)/Taconic Developmental Disabilities Services Office (TDDSO) Specialized Respite Training grant).
• New Horizons Resources (employed alumni and was a major collaborator in the establishment of the CHS in 1992).
• Abilities First (employed alumni)
• Children’s Annex (employed alumni)
• Ulster-Greene ARC, mainly at Brookside and Joalyn House (employed alumni)
• Crustal Run Village (employed alumni)
• Northeast Center for Special Care (employed alumni)
• Taconic Developmental Disabilities Services 
• Taconic Resources for Independence 

Homelessness, Poverty, Mental Health and Domestic Violence Programs

• Dutchess County Mental Health Association: Living Room
• Ulster County Mental Health Association: Education and Advocacy Services
• Family of Woodstock and New Paltz (employed alumni)
• Grace Smith House (employed alumni)
• Battered Women Services (employed alumni)
• Safe Homes of Orange County
• Dutchess Outreach (employed alumni)
• Sullivan County Intensive Day Treatment Program
• Gateway Community Industries, Chestnut Center

Criminal Justice and Substance Abuse Treatment

• Dutchess, Ulster, and Orange County Departments of Probation
• Green Haven Correctional Facility
• Beacon Correctional Facility for Women
• Ulster and Dutchess County Drug Treatment Court
• Dynamite Youth Center Foundation (employed alumni)
• Dutchess County Intensive Treatment Alternative Program
• Save Them Now Program
• Step One

Child Welfare and Family Services

• St. John Bosco (employed alumni)
• Children’s Home of Kingston
• Children’s Home of Poughkeepsie (employed alumni)
• The Astor Home for Children, including at the Day Treatment Program and at several Head Start programs
• Green Chimneys Children’s Services
• Family Services, mainly in its Family Education Program (employed alumni)
• Dutchess County Department of Social Services
• Dutchess County Teen Parents Program
• Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse
• Columbia Opportunities (employed alumni)
• Child Find
• Hudson River Housing (employed alumni), including at Riverhaven Runaway Shelter
• Ulster County Department of Social Services (employed alumni)

Preventative and School Based Programs

• New Paltz Central School District (social work internships at Duzine and Lenape Elementary schools)
• Haviland Middle School, Hyde Park (school guidance counselor)
• Ulster County BOCES (educator with children with hearing impairment)
• Children’s Learning Center, SUMY New Paltz Campus
• New Paltz Youth Program
• Planned Parenthood
• Prevention Connections
• New Paltz Agricultural Child Care Center

Elderly

• Wingate at Ulster
• Mountain View Nursing Center/Home (employed alumni)
• Association for Senior Citizens (employed alumni)
• Dutchess County Office for the Aging
• Elant at Wappingers Falls

Medical

• Vassar Brothers Hospital (in the case management/social work department)
• Benedictine Hospital (in the Oncology Support Program)

Advocacy and Social Action Agencies

• Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse
• Dutchess County Mental Health Association: Living Room
• Ulster County Mental Health Association: Education and Advocacy Services
• Family of Woodstock and New Paltz (employed alumni)
• Grace Smith House (employed alumni)
• Battered Women Services (employed alumni)
• Safe Homes of Orange County
• Dutchess Outreach (employed alumni)
• Resource Center for Accessible Living (with which the CHS obtained a New York State Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (OMRDD)/Taconic Developmental Disabilities Services Office (TDDSO) Specialized Respite Training grant).
• New Horizons Resources (employed alumni and was a major collaborator in the establishment of the CHS in 1992).
• Taconic Resources for Independence 
• Planned Parenthood
• Prevention Connections

Alternative Approaches and Therapies

• Abilities First (employed alumni)
• Benedictine Oncology Program
• Children’s Media Project
• Green Chimneys Children’s Services
• New Horizons Resources: Briggs Farm