Various Internships

Job Description

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The Health and Human Services Department offers various internships, both paid and unpaid, across a range of disciplines.

PUBLIC HEALTH

• Public Health Specialist Internship: Designed for students with a broad range of degrees, focusing on health education and communications. Interns develop/improve health education curriculum, participate in community events, preparedness activities, and community health assessment/improvement planning. Job shadowing available in all areas of public health.

• Environmental Health Internship: Typically for bachelor-level students with a science interest. Focuses on exposing students to environmental health aspects like water quality, childhood lead poisoning prevention, laboratory work, environmental sample collection, and vector monitoring. Job shadowing available in other environmental health areas.

• Public Health Nursing Internship: Designed for nurses pursuing a BSN/MSN or in a BSN completion program. Based on program need, internships meet community health clinical rotation requirements.

• Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Dietetic Internship – Community Rotation: Supervised by a Registered Dietitian (RD), providing clinical experience in a community WIC setting. Interns gain experience in nutrition counseling, breastfeeding support, biometric assessment, and community education. Designed to meet 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, providing the opportunity for the delivery of nutrition/health education and nutrition/health services for older adults. Interns learn to screen for nutrition risk, provide nutrition counseling, document consumer interactions, and have exposure to community-based senior nutrition program operations.

• Aging and Disability Resource Center Social Work Internship: Seeking a bachelor’s degree-level social work student. Opportunity to 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 elder abuse investigation, senior nutrition programs, health promotion, and Veteran Services.

CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

• Child Welfare Bachelor-level Internships: Designed for Social Work degrees. Focuses on learning and participating in child welfare services to children and families within established standards, ordinances, and policies. Interns may work at community events, participate in treatment courts, and experience Access, Initial Assessment, Ongoing Services, and Foster Care Services. Job shadowing is available in all areas of Child Welfare.

• Child Welfare Master-level Internships: Designed for master of social work degrees. Focuses on learning and participating in child welfare services to children and families within established standards, ordinances, and policies. Interns will practice first in Initial Assessment and then move to Ongoing Services. They also will be able to experience Treatment Courts and Foster Care Services. During the second half of their internship, they will be responsible for a Child Welfare case and implementing services. Research of policies and best practice data may be assigned. Job shadowing is available in all areas of Child Welfare.

• Youth Justice Bachelor-level Internships: Designed for social work, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology degrees. Focuses on learning and participating in youth justice services to adolescents and families within established standards, ordinances, and policies. Job shadowing is available in the area of Youth Justice.

VETERANS

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

BHU (Behavioral Health Unit)

• Behavioral Health Internships: Designed for a broad range of social service degrees. Focuses on providing resources and support for individuals with various mental health needs. Interns typically work with consumers, assisting mental health professionals with teaching coping skills, symptom management, and risk assessments.

• Behavioral Health Case Management Internships: 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 of 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 (for both Comprehensive Community Services and Community Support Program).

• Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic Internships: 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 of 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 Internships: 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 of 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.