Date Program Tables are updated: September 2024

Does the program or institution require students, trainees, and/or staff (faculty) to comply with specific policies or practices related to the institution’s affiliation or purpose? Such policies or practices may include, but are not limited to, admissions, hiring retention policies, and/or requirements for completion that express mission and values? No

Jordan Valley Community Health Center believes a strong community is a healthy community. As Missouri’s largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC), we utilize a collaborative approach focused on serving over 65,000 members of our community a year. JVCHC has nine locations serving urban and rural populations. Training is a central theme to this vision. In coordination with our medical and dental residency programs, the APA Accredited Predoctoral Interns contribute to the future of the field and the future of our community. 

We are committed to providing a clinical training experience that is sequential, cumulative, and summative in complexity and outcome. Training is conducted in a facilitative and supportive environment that provides each psychology intern with the opportunities to experience the practice of psychological services within the context of a multidisciplinary integrative primary care model. As an FQHC, we primarily serve the underserved. Patients typically present with complex factors that impact their mental, physical, and oral health. As respected colleagues within JVCHC, psychology interns enhance the treatment of patients and contribute to the overall learning environment. We also recognize the individual training interests and needs of each intern. The internship structure is designed for flexibility to allow for each intern to incorporate elective clinical experiences to increase the breadth, depth, and diversity of their training. We will work with each intern to develop an Individual Learning Plan (ILP) to accommodate unique clinical interests within the core framework of our internship. The objectives of our training experience is to expose interns to assessment, treatment, and consultation within an outpatient community health setting which includes primary care, a women’s and children’s dedicated clinic, pain management, a substance use disorder clinic, a Program for All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE), psychiatry, and dental. 

Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application: If Yes, indicate how many.

Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours: Yes

Amount: 400 hours of direct therapeutic experience

Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours: Yes

Amount: 100 hours of direct assessment experience

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:

• Completed at least three years of practicum/field placement or work experience, which includes a minimum of 400 hours of direct therapeutic experience and 100 hours of direct assessment experience
• Have written at least five integrated psychological testing reports
• Successfully passed their doctoral comprehensive or qualifying examination
• Dissertation proposal approved by the time of application

Jordan Valley conducts background checks on incoming interns and applicants need to be prepared to pass background checks in compliance with state laws. Not successfully passing this background check may cause Jordan Valley to break a match with an incoming intern.

Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns:

 Annual salary of $38,000.

Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-Time Interns:

NA

Program provides access to medical insurance for intern?

Yes

If access to medical insurance is provided:

Trainee contribution to cost required?

Yes

Coverage of family member(s) available?

Yes

Coverage of legally married partner available?

Yes

Coverage of domestic partner available?

Yes

Hours of Annual paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation)

160 hours (16 days) of PTO for use as vacation and sick.

Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave

Sick leave is included in the 160 hours of PTO provided

In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave?

Yes**

Other Benefits 

• 3 days of professional development leave
• At least nine (9) holidays
• Professional liability insurance for anyone not already covered by their school
• Long-Term Disability
• Access to Group Retirement with employer match per plan document.
• Employee Assistance Program (free short-term counseling for intern/family)
• Optional enrollment in dependent care or medical flexible spending.

* Note: Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed. 

** Every day of unpaid leave taken, will be an automatic extension of internship by the same amount of time. 

Note: “PD” = Post-Doctoral residency position, “EP” = Employed Position