Concentration in Health & Wellness

Explore some of our field education locations with a focus on Health & Wellness

• Aurora Mental Health Center, Health and Wellness Clinic

  The purpose of the Health and Wellness Clinic is to improve the health of people with mental illness and addictions by increasing access to primary care services; improving prevention, early identification and intervention of physical diseases, including chronic illness; and integrating physical and behavioral health care services. Interns offer behavioral health provider services for adults with serious mental illness and chronic physical disease, such as diabetes and chronic pain.

• Berkley Palliative Care and Hospice

  Berkley Palliative Care and Hospice provides comfort and dignity to patients through their end-of-life journey. Berkley concentrates on patient- and family-centered goals with a focus on the medical, mental and spiritual needs of patients and families. Interns assess new patients, develop care goals and plans, make bereavement calls and assist with grief support group facilitation.

• Brent Eley Foundation, Brent’s Place

  Brent’s Place provides safe and clean housing and improves the quality of life for children and families living with cancer and other immunocompromising conditions. Interns work with a wide variety of client populations under the health care umbrella and learn program management and development, informal use of clinical skills to create a supportive environment for families, volunteer management and more.

• Centura Health, St. Anthony North Health Campus, Integrated Care Team

  The Integrated Care Team uses an integrated model of patient care that combines mental and physical health in a family medicine clinic. Behavioral health provider interns meet patients when they come in for their medical visits. They also provide clinical interventions to patients who are in mild to acute emotional distress and need complex social work interventions and case management.

• Salud Family Health Centers

  Salud is a comprehensive primary health care system that provides affordable, quality, integrated health care services to more than 70,000 patients each year, improving community health and lowering health care costs. Interns apply clinical skills through the implementation of evidence-based mental health screenings; consult with medical providers to determine the course of treatment; schedule therapy appointments for individuals, couples and families; and facilitate shared medical appointments for obstetrics and diabetes care.