Organização das Mulheres de Cabo Verde (OMCV) – Anchor Point Internships (Praia, Cape Verde) November 19, 2008
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OMCV’s impact is felt at several levels as it providesmany services in addition to information about and training in women’s rights, including: literary programs and activities which reinforce literacy; offers skills training (e.g. sewing, typing, basic computer skills, commercial baking); promotes family planning (targeted particularly at 15 to 19-year-olds); undertakes health education, including education about HIV/AIDS; gives loans to women for income-generating activities; runs work day care centers for 4 to 6 years olds; and provides information about environmental issues. OMCV has planned exchange visits to Brazil and Portugal to study methods of transforming and training women about their rights.
Since March of 2000, OMCV has provided more than 400 loans totaling $214,458 to over 270 families, achieving a loan repayment rate of 99 percent. During the 12 months ending in October of 2001, OMCV collected $23,332 in interest and fees, against operating expenses of $22,555 — demonstrating steady progress toward operational sustainability. Its microcredit activities have also provided a credible platform to address its community development goals, such as literacy training, health promotion, and AIDS prevention counseling. The National Microcredit Steering Committee endorsed OMCV’s approach and the NGO has been actively engaged in legislative discussions about the role of civil society organizations in micro-credit
services.
Internship Description:
Cape Verde is an archipelago composed of ten islands. It is only slightly larger than Rhode Island, and located 385 mi (500 km) west of Senegal. The intern will work with the staff in the Praia office. Praia is a city of approximately 100,000 inhabitants.
The OMCV runs several HIV/AIDS programs, including prevention and education, psychological support for families, work with community leaders. One intern will work in the HIV/AIDS prevention and education area.
The second intern will work on the microfinance area of OMCV. In 1999, with support from the African Development Foundation, OMCV created a new microfinance department, and with ACDI/VOCA assistance OMCV began to unlearn bad lending practices and adopt new procedures that will lead to sustainability. Previously, OMCV had disbursed loans to urban and rural women microentrepreneurs at very low rates of interest and with an unsustainable level of loan recovery.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors All majors encouraged to apply—interest in women’s health, education, development, microfinance, sustainability, social issues, peace and justice, human rights, encouraged to apply.
Knowledge of Portuguese or Spanish preferred. |
Personality: Flexible Motivated Open minded Detail oriented Organized Self starter Patient Able to live simply |
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine – American Cities Internship Program (San Francisco) November 17, 2008
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Organization Description:
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (”The Institute” or “CIRM”) was established in early 2005 with the passage of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative. The statewide ballot measure, which provided $3 billion in funding for stem cell research at California universities and research institutions, was approved by California voters on November 2, 2004, and called for the establishment of a new state agency to make grants and provide loans for stem cell research, research facilities and other vital research opportunities.
The CIRM uses bond proceeds to fund basic and applied biomedical research focused on developing diagnostics and therapies and on other vital research opportunities that will lead to life-saving medical treatments. All proposals are peer-reviewed to support the most promising scientific research. Research grants are made only to California-based research institutions.
The Independent Citizens Oversight Committee (”ICOC”) is the 29-member governing board for the Institute. The ICOC members are public officials, appointed on the basis of their experience earned in California’s leading public universities, non-profit academic and research institutions, patient advocacy groups and the biotechnology industry.
Internship Description:
The CIRM intern will work with the staff managing the 29-member governing board of the agency, legislative affairs and bond sales among other ongoing programs. The work will include research projects concerning global, national and state policy and other policy issues related to stem cell research, participation in internal meetings at the agency, attending and providing support at agency driven meetings in the Bay area and other projects.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Strong Written and Oral Communication Skills |
Personality: Open Minded |
Children Now – American Cities Program (San Francisco) November 14, 2008
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Organizational Mission:
Children Now is a nonpartisan research and advocacy organization working to raise children’s well-being to the top of the national policy agenda. The organization focuses on ensuring quality health care, a solid education and a positive media environment for all children. Children Now’s strategic approach creates awareness of children’s needs, develops effective policy solutions and engages those who can make change happen.
Current Campaigns:
Children Now is currently engaged in a number of important on-going campaigns including:
Working as part of the 100% Campaign to develop a 2009-2010 legislative or ballot campaign to ensure that all California’s children have health coverage
Working with a coalition of educators on statewide school reform
Working with early care partners to expand preschool and programs for infants and toddlers
Leading national efforts to improve children’s educational programming and messaging on food and nutrition
Internship Description:
This summer, the intern’s projects will include working with one or more of our policy teams on current campaigns. This could include research and writing, attending meetings and outreach to constituencies. Additional projects may be added contingent upon time and the particular interest of the intern. The selected candidate will be supervised by either Wilma Chan, VP of Policy, or the policy director for education or healthcare.
Internship Qualification:
A person interested in children’s issues, particularly in the areas of healthcare, education or media. The intern must be able to do research, have strong analytical skills, be a quick learner and be a good writer.
Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, Emory Alzheimers Disease Research Center – American Cities Program (Atlanta) November 11, 2008
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Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease
At the Emory Center for Neurodegenerative Disease, research cuts across traditional academic departments and scientific disciplines to focus on mechanisms of neurodegeneration, neuroprotection and brain repair.
Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
The Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center (ADRC), is funded by the National Institute on Aging. Through this grant, Georgia and surrounding states are provided with outstanding clinical, research, and educational programs on normal age related memory loss, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.
Neurodegeneration is a common theme of many nervous system diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, ALS, head trauma, epilepsy and stroke. These disorders are devastating and expensive, with annual costs currently exceeding several hundred billion dollars in the United States alone, and current treatments are inadequate. Adding to the urgency of the problem is the fact that the incidence of these age-related disorders is increasing rapidly as population demographics change.
Quick Stats:
- Emory has a large and outstanding faculty who perform cutting edge neurodegenerative disease research
- Research spans from genetic and environmental factors that cause disease, to development of new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches, to clinical testing of new treatments
- Emory Healthcare has a large and outstanding clinical faculty who provide comprehensive care, education and support for affected individuals and their families
Internship Descriptions:
There are several possible internship opportunities including both basic science research as well as clinically relevant projects.
Laboratory based “bench” projects:
We are offering two basic science internship opportunities that will provide opportunities for hand’s on work on the practical aspects of basic science research using state-of-the-art techniques and technology.
1. Investigating the role of fibril assembly and neurotoxicity in Alzheimer’s Disease (offered by Drs. David Lynn and Zixu Mao)
2. Brain abnormalities in movement disorders (offered by Dr. Ellen Hess)
o This internship is focused on basic science research into the mechanisms underlying disease processes in movement disorders, particularly dystonia.
· Animal modeling. Genetically engineered mice are used to determine how mutations found in man cause dystonia. The intern will learn molecular biology (PCR, Southern analysis, etc)as it is applied to generating and characterizing mouse models of human neurological disorders.
· Drug discovery. Translating basic science into useable information for patients is the challenge facing all basic scientists. The applicant will learn how to develop and design drug studies in mouse models to identify lead compounds for drug development in humans.
Clinical related investigations and practices:
We are offering three more clinically relevant internship opportunities. The first two may involve some direct patient interaction and will involve data analysis of patient data. The third internship described below will focus on educating the public on Alzheimer’s disease and on recruitment of community members into research studies.
1. Cognitive Rehabilitation in patients with mild cognitive impairment (offered by Dr. Benjamin Hampstead)
We are investigating the use of cognitive rehabilitation in patients with mild cognitive impairment, which is generally believed to be the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease. Our research focuses specifically on the use of explicit memory training and assesses changes in memory functioning using both behavior and fMRI. Interns will have direct patient contact and will be responsible for teaching the memory rehabilitation techniques. Interns will also receive exposure to fMRI procedures including paradigm development and data collection, analysis, and interpretation. Interns will discuss their research progress during weekly laboratory meetings, which also provide a time for relevant research literature to be reviewed and discussed.
2. Analysis of sleep phenotypes in Alzheimer’s disease (offered by Dr. Donald Bliwise)
This project involves secondary data analyses of questionnaire data derived from Alzheimer’s patients and their family members regarding sleep habits and sleep disorders. Alzheimer’s patients often have profound difficulties with sleep, ranging from day/night sleep reversal with excessive sleeping during the day to vivid dreaming experiences at night. Our AD Center has been routinely collecting data on such events in the hope of eventually correlating such behavioral phenotypes to polymorphisms in neurotransmitter systems involving serotonin and norepinephrine in AD patients. The first phase of this project is to systematically collect such behavioral data and examine factors that may influence the expression of the phenotype (e.g., medication, stage of dementia)
3. Cognitive Rehabilitation in patients with mild cognitive impairment. (Offered by Dr. Melanie Greenaway)
We are investigating the use of a memory/notebook rehabilitation technique in individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (often thought to be the precursor to Alzheimer’s disease). Interns will participate in recruitment, database management, and assessment of subjects with MCI and their care partners. Interns will receive exposure to neuropsychological assessment, cognitive rehabilitation, clinical trial implementation, and database management. Interns would also have the opportunity to participate in additional neuropsychological based studies into cognitive changes in the geriatric population, including Alzheimer’s disease, Mild Cognitive Impairment, or Parkinson’s disease.
4. Opportunities to contribute toward community-based AD Education efforts and to facilitate recruitment of research participants for AD-related research projects and clinical trials (offered by the Emory Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center Education Core)
This internship will provide an opportunity to contribute towards efforts aimed at community education on AD and towards recruiting research subjects for ongoing studies. Responsibilities may include:
a. Development of brochures, newsletters & website material
b. Video creation/editing
c. Development of lecture material for an education program
d. Development of a research registry targeted at recruiting African American research participants
e. Organizing and advertising community educational events and assisting with data collection for audience evaluations
Ideal Internship Qualification:
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Logistical: Current Juniors and sophomores For laboratory projects
For clinical projects
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Personality: For laboratory projects
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Riverside Community Care – Lumpkin Summer Institute for Service Learning (Boston) November 4, 2008
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Riverside Community Care has been a vital resource in Massachusetts for more than four decades. We offer a broad range of health and human services, including mental healthcare, developmental disability and traumatic brain injury programs, substance abuse treatment and early childhood services. Each year fourteen thousand adults, children and adolescents seek Riverside’s help. Our reach also extends to municipalities, other care providers and corporations. Whatever the need, wherever it may be, we strive to deliver responsive, innovative care that helps to build healthy communities.
Providing internship opportunities is beneficial to both students and Riverside. We are proud of the comprehensive and innovative services that we provide and look forward to offering students a rich and valuable internship experience. Following completion of their education, many student interns have continued their affiliation with Riverside as permanent staff members.
Students may be placed in programs working with individuals with mental health, substance abuse issues, developmental disabilities or traumatic head injury. Internships are also available working with young children and families in our Early Intervention Programs. Internship placements are individualized to meet the needs of the student and the program setting. Student interns function as team members and participate in all aspects of programming including case conferences and other clinical meetings. Student interns may also attend trainings offered through Riverside’s outstanding Staff Training Series.
Quick Stats:
• Mental healthcare, developmental disability and traumatic brain injury programs, substance abuse treatment and early childhood services to children, individuals and families for over four decades
• Serve 14,000 people annually
• 70 programs throughout Massachusetts
INTERNSHIP DESCRIPTIONS
DAY TREATMENT INTERN
Psychiatric Day Treatment is a very structured therapeutic program for adults who are struggling with a Mental Illness. People receive day treatment by attending groups that use a wide variety of modalities and strength interpersonal skills within the milieu. Many coping skills are learned to help gain more insight, stabilize and decrease need for hospitalization in an effort to improve quality of life.
Intern Expectations:
* Initial orientation will support students becoming familiar with the culture and structure of the Day Treatment Program
* Observe the range of treatment groups, varying in type and functional level to help address the multiple needs of consumers in the program
* Assist group leader in planning and helping to organize group materials as appropriate as well as, assist in the running of group
* Develop a familiarity and comfort level with the population
* Attend community meetings and wrap-up meetings
* Gain an understanding of interdisciplinary team functions
* Attend Staff meetings and Staff rounds
* Research for specific groups, projects or other support duties as assigned
CLUBHOUSE INTERN
The Clubhouse model is a rehabilitative community, which emphasizes work, participation and choice. Members and staff work together as colleagues to accomplish the work and goals of the clubhouse and offers a variety of opportunities for social interactions.
Intern Expectations:
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY for the traditional psychology student in a not so traditional setting. The nature of clubhouse is ‘you never know where the day will take you’…organized chaos.
Interns are based in the Clubhouse Services Unit that is responsible for making lunch, running a snack bar, producing a daily video and other media projects, producing a newsletter and arts/literary magazine, maintaining a website, promoting health and wellness through education and our gym, organizing social activities and fundraising, as well as over-seeing basic financial record keeping activities. Interns assist in all aspects of the unit, working side by side with other members (and sometimes staff) to ensure that tasks are complete in helping run the Clubhouse. Each unit has four staff and an estimated 10-20 members participating each day, so you will immediately be part of a team.
Interns can also assist in job development (filling out applications, writing resumes, and conducting mock interviews) and job placement (work side-by-side members in their place of employment in the community.) As opportunity permits you can assist in advocacy/case management issues such as entitlements and benefits, housing, and team meetings.
As we believe in utilizing the strengths and talents of all members and staff, we will seek out yours and will tailor a ‘special project’ for you to work on. In addition to the work-ordered day Units that run until 3:00pm, we will tap into your hobbies and passions that you can share to help run a weekly activity from 3:00pm-3:45pm. Our past interns have run a weekly art class, games tournament, a nutrition class, softball game, etc.
Unlike most settings you can choose, we do not focus on the individuals’ mental illness. There are no medication clinics, therapy, or groups. There is no chart reviews, for the most part you will know an individuals illness by their disclosure. Our number one priority is changing one’s perception of people with mental illness as clients or consumer of services in need of help but rather as people with support that can be great contributors. Clubhouse is all about relationships, recovery, and empowerment: getting to know the real person by doing real work together.
Are you the right candidate? Here are some of the attributes we seek:
1. Out-going: able to reach-out and ask members to assist in projects or tasks.
2. Self motivated: limited supervision to complete tasks when given the objective.
3. Patient: can acknowledge that working side-by-side can take twice as long to do.
4. Flexible: can ‘go with the flow’, does not need to follow a strict planned day.
5. Team Player: can go that extra mile, put on a smile, and just help if you can.
6. Sense of Humor: You know what they say about all work and no play.
EARLY INTERVENTION INTERN
Riverside’s Early Intervention provides educational, therapeutic, and support services to children between the ages of birth and three. The children we see have, or are at–risk for, delays in their development. Our primary focus is to empower families to meet their children’s individual needs through education, training and support.
Riverside Early Intervention
Student Job Expectations
Riverside Early Intervention provides opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students to work within our program under the direction of an assigned staff member(s). Student expectations may vary based on individual student and school requirements and the needs of the program.
Selection of students is based on a number of factors. Students are expected to have an interest in working with infants and toddlers and an ability to present oneself in an energetic, enthusiastic manner with positive affect. Knowledge and experience in the field of early childhood education is desirable, but the candidate may also be selected based on their personal experience and educational goals. Selection is also based on the program’s needs, the availability of appropriate supervision, and the ability to accommodate student’s scheduling needs
Summary:
The student intern works in support of the multidisciplinary team within the Early Intervention program servicing children (0-3 years) and their families in the communities of Newton, Needham, Wellesley and Weston. The student intern is primarily responsible for supporting both center and community-based groups as well as supporting the overall administrative needs of the program.
Typical student expectations may include any or all of the following:
• Participate in child-focused or parent-child groups, as assigned. (More specific guidelines regarding expectations within group are provided as part of the student orientation)
• Prepare classroom space (i.e. arrange positional equipment, set up circle time, clear windowsills).
• Ensure classrooms are stocked with adequate supplies of wipes, paper towels, tissues, gloves, soap and cleaning solution.
• Assist in setting up and cleaning up for groups (i.e. gathers/returns materials, adaptive equipment, etc., cleans circle box items immediately following use, washes classroom surfaces, manages dishwasher).
• Assist in maintaining center’s supplies and materials (i.e. restock art supplies, fill cleaning bottles, maintain toy closet).
• Assist in planning for groups and developing curriculum ideas and therapeutic activities.
• Attend and participate in group meetings with clinicians as indicated.
• Assist with group documentation as assigned.
• Assist children on/off transportation vehicle, sign and file trip sheets.
• Assist with general clerical responsibilities during breaks from group responsibilities (i.e. filing, photocopying, other office projects).
* Observation of home visits and/or other clinical activities may occur based on individual student requirements and the availability/needs of the program. These opportunities are offered at the discretion of the program and will be discussed at the start of each student’s placement.
Group Expectations
– Before and after group
o Help set-up and clean-up group rooms
o Be ready to start when group begins
o Ask staff any and all questions
o Maintain confidentiality about children and families
– During group
o Greet children & caregivers in a welcoming manner
o Approach children with a positive attitude
o Interact with children individually and in small groups
o Encourage engagement, functional independence and social relationships
o Provide assistance to keep children safe
o Observe & imitate staff interactions with children
o Make eye contact and speak with children at the child’s eye level
o Encourage children to explore new activities
o Use simple language
o Learn the ways teachers use to communicate and encourage communication through pictures and gestures
o Provide support during structured activities and transitions
o Limit adult conversations
o Tell children what they should do, not what they shouldn’t do
o Use praise
o Re-direct any parent questions to appropriate staff
o Be aware that parents are frequently observing you with their child
St. Francis House: Lumpkin Summer Institute of Summer Learning January 29, 2008
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St. Francis House
Lumpkin Summer Institute of Summer Learning
Founded in 1984, St. Francis House is a not-for-profit, non-sectarian organization. It is now recognized as New England’s largest and most comprehensive daytime shelter.
Quick Stats:
- Provides basic and emergency services
- Rehabilitation programs
- Job skills training
- Provides transitional housing for poor and homeless men and women in Boston, MA
Internship Description:
An intern with St. Francis is most likely to work with the Moving Ahead Program (MAP). MAP is a training and life skills curriculum offered through St. Francis House for adults who face chronic barriers (including but not limited to substance abuse) to homelessness and rehabilitation into the community from the penal system. This internship provides opportunity for the intern to engage in direct contact with clients and residents through programming, case management, and facilitating computer classes. St. Francis House is open to a student’s creative implementation of program ideas; past ideas include designing a game and “Studio Shine,” a clothing and fashion program to assist participants in gaining skills transferable to employment. An intern may also contribute to supporting research and program development.
Ideal Internship Qualification:
| Logistical: Current Sophomores and Juniors All majors are encouraged to apply |
Personality: Open minded Motivated Flexible |
