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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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Spring and Summer 2025: Internships with Whole Communities – Whole Health

 

General Description

Whole Communities-Whole Health (WCWH) is a grand challenges 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 two interns for the spring of 2025; one to support our study team and one to support 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 Intern responsibilities include the following:

  • Assist with the creation and sending of reports to return study results to study participants
  • Support social media and newsletter by developing content
  • Help plan and execute our biggest annual event, the Community Resource Day
  • Assist with coordination of the Community Strategy Team, working with community members who give guidance on the study
  • 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, Sr. Outreach Program Coordinator for WCWH, at shirene.garcia@austin.utexas.edu. Community Engagement Intern Applicants only: If you have experience creating digital media, please also send 1-2 examples of media you created (flyer, social media post, infographic etc…).

NOTE: This is an unpaid position but can be used for a BDP Connecting Experience.

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Fall 2024 Internship with Wye River Group

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. In addition to other responsibilities each intern will participate in crafting a bill analysis for HB 4687 (88th R) known as the Texas Trust.

The internship will start September 1, 2024  and continue through December 1, 2024 . The candidate(s) selected will work directly with Anita DSouza, Senior Fellow at WRG and Jon Comola, founder WRH.

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.

Anita D’Souza, Senior Fellow Wye River Group

Contact:

Anita D’Souza

Email: WRGHFall2024@gmail.com