L9-Find an Internship

 

L9-Find an Internship

Alpha Home Health & Hospice- www.alpha-hh-hospice.com (found in UVU BESC major Internship email)-

I chose this as I have a personal testimony of the benefits of hospice for both family and patient. I have had very positive experiences (well as positive as they could be as my Dad, Grandfather and Mother-In-Law were the hospice patients. The kindness, love, support and personal care given to terminal patients is a huge blessing to the emotional, psychological and physical well being of the family members as well as the patients. This internship would provide me with experiences that often are not received until you are in the career actually working with patients and their families. It would also give me an opportunity to give back to other families suffering loss, sadness and stress of having a terminal family member to care for.

Friends of Animals of Utah-Purple Paw Domestic Violence Outreach Program- www.foautah.org (found in UVU BESC major Internship email)-

I selected this internship as I feel that comfort and assistance can be provided to those in need in a varity of ways. More often than not, a persons pets hold a much dearer place in a family than that of a pet. Often they are just like children to an individual and to have a place for them to go while they get help and back on their feet is an amazing service to provide. Having a place for a pet to go may be the one thing needed to have a person start on the path to helping themselves out of a domestic violence situation.

The Academy for Child Advocacy & Family Support (ACAFS) http://www.utahfamilyacademy.org/ (found on UVU job board)

The family is such an important part of who we are and what we stand for, so I feel this internship would be a good place to gain experience in helping families that are struggling to keep things together and those who have already split try to keep the kids from being pawns in their struggle to injure the opposite party as much as possible. Protecting the kids is of utmost importance as they are not in a position to help themselves.

WINs Internship (Womens Information Network)- Marsha Haynes UVU Internship Dept (found on UVU job board)-

I feel this would be a great internship, depending on which one you choose, as it is a different route to protecting the family. When women are supported, educated, empowered and loved by someone who sees their potential, it impacts generations. I think this would be a good place to gain a global perspective on the family and relationships women around the world engage in and what can be done to protect the family thru motherhood, sisterhood and love.

Hoofbeats to Healing-Equine-Assisted therapy- http://www.hoofbeatstohealing.org

I chose this as there was a similar therapy place in the early 80's when I was growing up that provide a similar type of service to families with handicapped children. Again, animals are amazing and innocent and they touch a place in humans that is not reachable by any other means. Helping an individual who has limited mobility, abilities and cognitive restrictions move on their own is a wonderful thing. A child who is bound to a chair and unable to have much control over their life, choices or future can be liberated a top a horse. the movements, feeling of empowerment and control is psychologically something that can be provided only in this situation. It cannot be simulated and is something that has to be experienced with another warm blooded mammal. This freedom paired with the motion therapy that has been found to be so beneficial is something special and indeed an experience to make one think strongly about their motivation for choice in career and how fulfilled they might or might not be.

Comment:

Crystal Woods-

I love how your direction for your internships is very humanistic and how you want to provide service and understanding to others by helping them through emotional issues and situations

Cassidi Moosman-

I think you have chosen a wide variety of internships to basically try on many different career hats to see what fits best. I love that they are all different fields in order narrow down what you may or may not like from a great variety.