The Family Strengthening Center (FSC) is a non-profit community mental health Center whose mission is to protect children and facilitate healthy development by strengthening their families.  Through its parent organization, FSC is accredited by the Council on Accreditation, a nonprofit accreditor of human services since 1977.  The Center provides services statewide with psychological evaluations offered on all of the Hawaiian Islands.   The FSC is also a training center and provides Clinical Psychology Practicum, Mental Health Practicum, Doctoral Psychology Internship and Post-Doctoral Psychology Fellowship training.  This Doctoral Internship provides 2,000 hours of supervised Doctoral Psychology Internship training with at least 500 hours of direct services.  This more than qualifies for the required Internship training for the Psy.D. and Ph.D. degree in clinical psychology for most universities, and for licensure in most States including Hawaii.  The Training Salary is $27,000 a year with Full Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance coverage and two weeks of Paid Time Off with 13 paid holidays.  The Center is staffed by five on-site Licensed Clinical Psychologists for supervision. Master-level licensed therapist are also part of the treatment services staff.  The FSC is a paperless Center with all forms, psycholgoical tests and all records stored on-line and are accessable remotely.  Each Doctoral Intern will be provide a laptop/Tablet computer for their use during their internship year.  There is also office and IT support services available.  Upon completion of training, the Interns can earn a Certificate of Completion as a trained Parent-Child Interaction Therapy Therapist, and a Certification in Child Maltreatment.

The Internship training includes opportunities in the following areas:

• Forensic Comprehensive Psychological Evaluations for Adults (Parents/Caretakers) and Children (Victims of Child Maltreatment)
• Opportunity to develop psychological evaluations skills to assess the needs of Hawaii’s diverse population including completing evaluations on Kauai, Maui, Molokai, Lanai and Hawaii Island in addition to Oahu (Interns are on staff at our Oahu Center and have some opportunity to take periodic day trips to the other islands)
• Evidence-based child and family treatment to include Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Child Parent Psychotherapy
• Evidence-based individual trauma focused psychological treatment and trauma informed care
• Children’s Group Therapy and Child Crisis Therapy and Mental Health Crisis Management
• Comprehensive training in the diagnosis and treatment of Child Maltreatment with an opportunity to obtain certification in child maltreatment at the end of internship year
• Training in clinical consultation and clinical supervision and opportunity to participate in the clinical supervision of Doctoral Psychology Practicum Students
• Opportunity to participate in the Annual Hawaii International Trauma Conference
• Opportunity to participate in Hawaii’s Specialty Courts:  Zero-To-Three; Family Drug Court, Juvenile Drug Court and Girls Court
• Opportunity to participate in the psychosocial support services programs at the Family Programs Hawaii that focuses on strengthening children in foster care, resource caregivers, and youths that have aged-out of foster care 
• Opportunity to develop program management and grant writing skills through the specialty programs at Family Programs Hawaii