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Spring 2025 INTERNSHIP Opportunity – Wye River Group

Wye River Group

Spring 2025 INTERNSHIP Opportunity

We are seeking interns to work with us on timely social and public policy issues, such as substance use (SU), mental health, (MH) public health (PH), life sciences and health technology. Ideally the student(s) would have some familiarity in one or more of these areas and a strong interest in learning how public policy works.

This is an excellent opportunity to meet health and health care influencers and gain insights about the challenges in SU, MH and PH application on individuals, families, and communities across Texas and how public policy is addressing those challenges.

This term we have a special focus on the legislative process ast the Texas Legislature will be in session. In addition to other responsibilities each intern will participate in crafting a bill analysis, tracking the legislation (formerly) HB 4687 (88th R) known as the Texas  Trust. 

The internship will start late January and continue through late May 2025. The candidate(s) selected will work directly with Anita D’Souza, Senior Fellow at WRG and Jon Comola, founder WRGH. 

The interns selected will learn how legislation is advanced, policy and legislative research tools, policy development, and writing a bill analysis/policy paper.

The interns will also have the opportunity to hear from insiders on the formal and informal processes that shape public policy, meet policy experts, and hear from thought leaders in these issue areas.

All work is remote and will require that you have a computer and telephone. Note there may be a field trip to the capitol. 

Thank you for your consideration. If interested, please contact us at the email below.

Jon Comola, Founder, Wye River Group

Email: jrcomola@wrgh.org

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Spring 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 2024 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. 

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APPLY NOW: Rapoport Center Internships for Spring 2025 – Dec. 2 Deadline

The Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice is now accepting applications for Spring 2025 internships, one of which is the Barbara Harlow Internship in Human Rights and Social Justice – an internship that is only open to BDP students. Please see below for more information, and be sure to apply by the December 2 deadline if you are interested.

Call for Applications: Undergraduate InternshipsLinks to an external site.

The Rapoport Center is now accepting applications for its standard internship (open to all UT undergrads), and Barbara Harlow internship (open to UT undergrad students pursuing any Bridging Disciplines Program (BDP) certificate). For Spring 2025, we are particularly interested in students with experience in the following areas: designing public-facing communications; community engagement and outreach at UT and/or in a comparable academic/nonprofit setting; developing websites (especially using WordPress platform); and human rights/social justice research and writing. Spring internships offer a scholarship of $1250, and selected interns should be available to work 10 hours per week, mostly in-person at the Rapoport Center. Apply by 11:59pm on Monday, December 2.