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Fall 2025 Internship: William’s School

About us: 

Our team loves to work hard, have fun, and always have each other’s backs. You will work alongside teachers, assistant teachers, and a clinic team that provides the support and learning opportunities to make you want to come to work each day. William’s School is a private non-profit school for children ages 2-22 with autism, developmental disabilities, and/or emotional/behavioral disorders.

Here at William’s School, we strongly value an environment of trust, resilience, teamwork, and innovation.

Job Responsibilities:

· Assisting in academic groups.

· Assisting with managing student behaviors, when appropriate.

· Preparing materials.

· Leading small group lessons.

· Assist in maintaining a clean, orderly, engaging and welcoming classroom.

Qualifications:

· Must pass a background check.

· Energetic personality.

To apply, the volunteer candidate would need to send a resume to Deanna Oleen, Director of Operations, at deanna@williams-school.org. Please include what you are looking for in regards to classroom experience, age placement, volunteer hours needed, and your availability.  School begins on August 18th and goes through December 19th. We will have students from the ages of 2-18 but do take students up to the age of 22. We see a wide span of abilities among all of the age groups.

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Summer 2025 Internships with Whole Communities-Whole Health

Whole Communities-Whole Health (WCWH) is a grand challenge in research at UT Austin. Our challenge is to change the way science helps society thrive. To do this, we are conducting a 5-year community-engaged cohort study in SE Austin and surrounding areas with families who have children under 5 years old. The goals of this study are to:

  • Study how individual and environmental health determinants impact young children and their families. By studying factors of health across physical, mental, environmental health and more, we hope to learn more about how these sectors influence each other and the health of the child and family.
  • Create an effective implementation model for multi-disciplinary family research processes.
  • Include families who have historically been excluded from research.
  • Provide opportunities for participants and community members to engage in the research process, ultimately improving the usefulness of the data.
  • Test new technologies for data collection.
  • Return study results to study participants.

WCWH is looking for 2-4 interns for the summer of 2025 to support our study team, community engagement, and returning data to participants.
Study Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Prepare data collection materials for visits with participants
  • Conduct home visits with participants (you will always be accompanied by a staff member)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Be available to work 8-10 hours per week
  • Spanish speaking is a plus

Community Engagement/Data Return Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Assist with the creation and sending of reports to return study results to study participants
  • Develop content for a monthly community-facing newsletter
  • Maintain list of community resources for study participants
  • Conduct feedback interviews with study participants (training will be provided)
  • Other duties as assigned
  • Be available to work 8-10 hours per week
  • Spanish speaking is a plus

To apply, email your resume and a letter of interest, to Shirene Garcia, Community Engagement Manager for WCWH, at shirene.garcia@austin.utexas.edu. Deadline to apply is May 13th. [Update: Due to number of applications received, the application deadline has closed early, as of May 8th.] This is an unpaid position but can be used for a BDP Connecting Experience.

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Summer and Fall 2025 Internships: Children’s Advocacy Center

The Children’s Advocacy Center is currently interviewing for 4 internship spots with our family advocacy program. The Children’s Advocacy Center serving Bastrop, Lee, and Fayette counties works to provide the best opportunities for our interns. Our internship program caters to various undergraduate degrees such as criminal justice, psychology, social work, child/family development, sociology, and applied sociology and Masters degrees in social work and professional counseling. Family Advocate intern’s tasks entails a variety of learning opportunities such as working with caretakers and families during crisis during forensic interviews, case management, providing and helping families locate resources, groups (therapeutic, parenting, coping skills and more), and working closely with our multidisciplinary teams such as law enforcement and child protective services for better wrap around services.
Professional counseling and social work students have weekly supervision with our on staff LPC-S and LMSW. All family advocate interns are also engaged in weekly supervision with their task supervisor and also in mid and final semester reviews. We ask that interns spend a minimum of 16 hours a week at the CAC. Internships are completed per semester, are available spring, summer, and fall semesters and the amount of semesters and hours completed with the CAC are catered to each individual’s needs.
Applicants can fill out and return 2025 Intern application and reference form to Sarah Moreno at sarah.moreno@cacbastrop.org. Once she has them she will coordinate a time for an interview! If there are any questions or concerns you can reach Sarah Moreno directly via email or at 512-321-6161 ext 212.