Things to Know When Applying to the NICPP

• The Nebraska Internship Consortium in Professional Psychology accepts applicants from school, counseling, and clinical psychology doctoral programs, and preference is given to students from accredited programs.
• There are eight different sites in the Nebraska Consortium, each with its own match number.
• One of the eight Consortium sites, Munroe-Meyer Institute, has two different match numbers because it has two distinct programs at that site.
• Interns are admitted to the Consortium, not to an individual site, but applicants are interviewed by and matched to the member sites.
• Interns do not rotate across Consortium sites. An individual intern's training takes place within the single Consortium site to which that intern is matched. Individual Consortium sites may have internal rotations.
• You may request interviews with up to four Consortium sites. No preference rankings are requested or used for interview purposes.
• Requesting interviews with both Munroe-Meyer Institute programs counts as only one Consortium site, so you may request interviews with three additional Consortium sites.
• Applicants submit a single AAPI Application for Psychology Internship to the Nebraska Internship Consortium (Site Number 1416), and designate the agencies (and programs, in the case of the Munroe-Meyer Institute) with which they wish to interview by checking the boxes in the Programs section of the internship program designation and marking their selections on the NICPP Supplemental Form to be uploaded with the online application.
• If you are invited for an interview, you will be assigned to specific interview time slots on either the first or second Friday in January in Omaha, Nebraska. The sites have very little flexibility to change your assigned interview day or time or to allow phone/Skype interviews instead.
• Opportunities to change interview date or schedule a phone/Skype interview are not guaranteed and are made available solely at the discretion of each Consortium site Training Director.
• Each Consortium site holds an open house on the Thursdays before interview days so you can meet faculty, talk with current interns, and learn about how training is conducted at that site.
• All interviews are conducted at a single, central location in Omaha, Nebraska, so if you attend only the interviews, you will not have the opportunity to see the individual Consortium training sites.

Requirements

Applicants are required to have passed their doctoral program's comprehensive exam before being interviewed by the NICPP.

Applicants to Boys Town and Catholic Social Services are required to have their master's degree and to be PLMHP-eligible. Beatrice State Developmental Center and Munroe-Meyer Institute give preference to applicants who have their master's degree and are PLMHP-eligible. Counseling and Psychological Services – UNL and QLI prefer PLMHP-eligible applicants.

Applicants to Omaha Public Schools have to be eligible for Provisional Certification as a School Psychologist in the State of Nebraska. Requirements can be found on the Nebraska Department of Education website http://www.education.ne.gov/. Students are required to pay for a background check as part of the application for provisional certification.

All consortium sites require background checks as a condition of employment.

One site, Catholic Social Services, requires that interns who match with them affirm a credal oath as a condition of employment.

Application Procedures

See the Apply page for specific instructions.