Various Health and Human Services Internships

Job Description

About Company and Job Description:

The Health and Human Services department offers a variety of internships, both paid and unpaid, across different divisions. Here’s a breakdown of the internship types available:

PUBLIC HEALTH

• Public Health Specialist Internship: Designed for a broad range of degrees, with a focus on health education and communications. Responsibilities include developing/improving health education curriculum, participating in community events and preparedness activities, and engaging in community health assessment and improvement planning. Job shadowing in all areas of public health is available.
• Environmental Health Internship: Typically a bachelor-level internship for students with a science interest. Exposure to environmental health areas such as water quality, childhood lead poisoning prevention, laboratory work, environmental sample collection, and vector monitoring. Opportunities for job shadowing in other areas of environmental health.
• Public Health Nursing Internship: Designed for nurses pursuing a BSN/MSN or enrolled in a BSN completion program. Internships are based on program needs and designed to meet the requirements of the community health clinical rotation.
• Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Dietetic Internship – Community Rotation: Supervised by a Registered Dietitian (RD). Provides clinical experience in a community WIC setting. Interns experience nutrition counseling, breastfeeding support, biometric assessment, and community education efforts. Designed to meet the clinical requirements of a bachelor’s or higher program.

ADRC (Aging and Disability Resource Center)

• Aging and Disability Resource Center Dietetic Internship – Community Rotation: Supervised by an RD. Provides opportunities for the delivery of nutrition/health education and services to older adults. Interns learn to screen individuals for nutrition risk, provide nutrition counseling, document consumer interactions, and gain exposure to the operations of a community-based senior nutrition program.
• Aging and Disability Resource Center Social Work Internship: Seeks a bachelor’s degree level social work student. Students work with older adults and adults with disabilities, learning how to provide information and assistance, options counseling, and connection to resources and benefits. Exposure to other service areas like elder abuse investigation, senior nutrition programs, health promotion and prevention programs, and Veteran Services.

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

• Child Welfare Bachelor Level Internship: Designed for Social Work degrees. Focus on learning and participating in child welfare services within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Chapter 48. Opportunities to work at community events, participate in treatment courts, and experience Access, Initial Assessment, Ongoing Services, and Foster Care Services. Job shadowing in all areas of Child Welfare is available.
• Child Welfare Master Level Internship: Designed for master of social work degrees. Focus on learning and participating in child welfare services within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Chapter 48. Practice first in Initial Assessment and then move to Ongoing Services. Experience Treatment Courts and Foster Care Services. During the second half of the internship, interns are responsible for a Child Welfare case and implementing services. Research of policies and best practice data may be assigned. Job shadowing in all areas of Child Welfare is available.
• Youth Justice Bachelor Level Internship: Designed for social work, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology degrees. Focus on learning and participating in youth justice services within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Wisconsin Chapter 938. Job shadowing in the area of Youth Justice is part of this internship.

VETERANS

• Veterans Service Office Internship: In collaboration with ADRC, Children & Families, and Behavioral Health Divisions, offers internships for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Social Work candidates. Interns learn about Federal and State Veterans Benefits navigation, counsel individuals on program eligibility, and interact with Veterans and their beneficiaries to determine individual needs and how available programs might address those needs.

BHU (Behavioral Health Unit)

• Behavioral Health Internship: Designed for a broad range of social service degrees. Focus on providing resources and support for individuals with a variety of mental health needs. Interns assist mental health professionals with teaching coping skills, symptom management, and risk assessments.
• Behavioral Health Case Management Internship: Designed for students pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Services (e.g., Social Work, Counseling). Licensed clinicians (LCSW and LPC) provide clinical supervision to meet educational program requirements for practicum and clinical hours. Interns provide mental health services in the community such as assessments, recovery planning, skill development, individual and/or group counseling, accessing community resources, and psychoeducation (Comprehensive Community Services and Community Support Program).
• Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic Internship: Designed for students pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Services (e.g., Social Work, Counseling). Licensed clinicians (LCSW and LPC) provide clinical supervision to meet educational program requirements for practicum and clinical hours. Interns provide mental health services in an outpatient setting such as assessments, recovery planning, skill development, individual and/or group counseling, and psychoeducation.
• Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Internship: Designed for students pursuing a bachelor’s degree with a minimum of 500 hours, or a Master’s degree in Social Services (e.g., Social Work, Counseling). Licensed clinicians (LCSW and LPC) provide clinical supervision to meet educational program requirements for practicum and clinical hours. Interns provide mental health services in the community such as crisis assessments, linkage and follow-up to community resources, and psychoeducation. Interns will work within WI Statute 51 and DHS 34.