Internships
About Family Living Programs
Internships in FLP: Many Choices
Where would you like to work?
Family Living Programs are happening in every Wisconsin
county so there are many offices in communities where an internship could be
arranged. Interns sometimes work in or near the same city in which they are
attending school. Others negotiate an internship in a distant community.
State or community level?
At the community level interns have more
of an opportunity to work directly with individuals, families, and community
partners.
At the state level interns can be involved in
research, materials development, and statewide coordination of various efforts.This
usually provides more of an opportunity to develop technical skills in areas
such as program planning, materials development, evaluation, or delivery of
information using the web.
What areas of work are you interested in?
Family Living initiatives cover a broad array
of subjects. Here is a list of examples of areas we do work in:
- Nutrition education for low resource audiences
- Parenting education and parenting support
- Family resource mangement
- Adolescent risk behavior education
- Child abuse prevention and home visitation
- Community family resource assessment and development
- Intergenerational programs
- 4H Youth Development (we refer).
- Family Impact Seminar (family policy education)
Pursuing an Internship With
Us
If you are ready to pursue an internship with us, here
are the steps:
Read the above information under Internships
in FLP: Many Choices
Send an email message to Nancy Brooks (FLP Internship Coordinator, nancy.brooks@ces.uwex.edu)
that includes your answers to the following questions:
- What is your full name?
- In what campus and department are you a student?
- Gradutate or undergraduate program?
- What year in the program? (for example, Junior, Senior, 3rd year, etc)
- Where would you like to work? (counties or cities in
Wisconsin)
- At the state or community level?
- What areas of work interest you?
- What time period are you hoping to intern within?
- Approximate number of hours per week during this time period.
- Who is the professor that will oversee the internship from the campus?
- What background or experiences will you bring to the internship that will
help you to be successful?
- How can you be reached (phone number(s) or email address).
Then What?
When Nancy receives your message, she will contact potential internship hosts.
Then she will contact you and provide you with information to reach those persons
that work in the appropriate geographical area(s), and which are expert in the
subject areas of your interest.
Prepare a resume and schedule an interview.
Once you have met with a host and have determined that
the match will work for both of you, an agreement or contract should be written
that clarifies the expectations of the student, the academic department, and
the coordinator. Usually the format of such is specified by the academic department
of your University. Please inform the host of any documentation or evaluation
your University requires.
For clarifications or more information contact:
nancy.brooks@ces.uwex.edu
Nancy Brooks
432 N. Lake St. Rm. 345
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-7886
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