Interns' Blog
It’s new, exciting and always an adventure here at LICADD.
Working with clients, learning from peers, it’s new, exciting and always an adventure here at LICADD. It’s hard to believe I’ve only been here a few months. The amount of life experience and alcohol and drug knowledge I’ve absorbed by helping clients and being taught by my field instructor and... Read more »
I found my own niche…
Well it’s almost time for the Holidays, and I must say, being at LICADD since September feels like just the right fit for me. I’m learning every day still. Every encounter and experience has been a unique learning experience on how I can better serve the clients and their families.... Read more »
“I’m already learning more than I ever could inside a classroom.”
The story of my journey to LICADD is a surprisingly short one: while discussing the first year internship with my advisor at Adelphi University I said that I'd like to work with drug dependent individuals, and despite telling me that "We try to give you the opposite of what you... Read more »
“Dedicated, professional, yet completely down-to-earth…”
I’ve chosen to intern at LICADD because I plan to eventually specialize in substance abuse. I also chose to intern at LICADD, because I’ve heard so many great things about the programs and services that they provide. As far as my experience so far with LICADD, I’m incredibly impressed with... Read more »
Six weeks in….
I cannot express what these last six weeks have meant to me. Let me start by saying, from the first day I started at LICADD, I really felt like part of a team. The clinical supervision I’ve received has not only given me the confidence to put into practice thought... Read more »
“Thank God for this Place”
I began interning at LICADD about four months ago. When I first started I didn’t know much about LICADD or what the organization did. After working here, I began to adapt and learned what this agency is all about. LICADD’s alcohol and drug prevention and education services for children and... Read more »
LICADD’s Family Education Series Starts
On October 29,2009 I was very fortunate to be able to sit in on the educational piece of an intervention. Over all it was a fabulous learning experience. Once again the interventionist showed how knowledgeable he is within his career. Throughout the whole session you could see that he is... Read more »
Pre-Intervention Family Education Series
I sat in on the initial family education intervention series facilitated by Jerry. The first family to arrive consisted of mother, daughter, and daughter’s friend. They were present because they were being affected by the alcohol dependence of their husband and father respectively. The second party to arrive consisted of... Read more »
Another Intervention Experience
I was very intrigued by the prospect of being involved in real time interventions with real people. I had heard about interventions through my time working in the field and on televison sitcoms in the eighties and nineties (i.e Different Strokes) and most recently on the television show on A... Read more »
First Exposure to Planned Interventions
From the start, one of those most appealing things to me about an internship at LICADD was the family interventions that were going to be taking place. I did not expect that on my first night there I would already be sitting in on the first step of an intervention. ... Read more »
