I listened to the MSF webinar today. It’s a useful beginner’s recruitment seminar, I recommend it to anyone interested in working with MSF. I learned that mental health professionals working with MSF have more of a supervisory than a hands on role. That’s kind of disappointing, I wanted to do more hands on work but I do understand the benefit of having local people do the one on one work (if they do employ local people.)
If I wanted to work with them, I’m on the right track, getting my clinical license and having experience with DV and sexual assault victims. I need more clinical experience and experience working in under-developed areas. As ghetto as the West side of Chicago is, I don’t think it counts toward the type of experience they’re looking for. So I would probably have to do some domestic work first.
They also want bilingual workers, French preferred. I took French in undergrad and don’t remember any of it. Relearning French might have a dual purpose, I can use it to score points on Canadian immigration tests if Obama doesn’t win.
It seems like a lot of work but it’s not like I would be applying anytime soon. I need 2 years clinical experience post LCSW. By checking it out now, I can slowly work toward these things and when I am clinically qualified I won’t have to rush to find experiences or skills to be a good candidate. If only I was so prepared about everything in my life!