Provo City School District Truancy/Attendance Internship —
Positions Available for Fall Semester

You will be able to do the following as your time allows:

• Meet one on one with students
• Go on home visits
• Learn to identify barriers and find solutions for students to overcome them
• Observe Court
• Observe Administrative meetings and participate after training.
• Multi agency staffing meetings observation
• Learn about community resources, how and when to refer a student/family
• Learn how to do an FBAAT- Similar to a BIP or Behavior intervention plan
• Help at Provo Attendance Court.
• Help parents become connected to the schools
• Motivate students to be in school and teach them skills to be successful.

Apply now for any remaining fall opportunities!

Contact:
Jode Porter or Sigrid Finch
Provo School District Truancy/Attendance Specialists
801-373-2183 or 801-367-4755
Jode Porter (pronounced like Jodie) jodep@provo.edu
Sigrid Finch sigridf@provo.edu

Based in Provo Utah, Teens Act currently operates in Provo High School, Independence High School, and Timpview High School. They work to improve graduation rates and outcomes for students and families, and to address the dropout challenge facing our students. They are looking for interns to begin training as soon as possible for assisting in fundraising, grant writing, PR and other work.

To apply, email one of the following for information on paid or volunteer opportunities:

gary.lacock@teensact.org

clau.soto2808@gmail.com

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is participating in the 68th Annual United Nations Civil Society Conference in Salt Lake City and they need your help! This event takes place on August 26-28th and is the first UN Civil Society Conference hosted in the United States outside of New York City or other UN locations. It is focused on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal #11 to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable by 2030”.
Students who are fluent in French, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, or English are invited to come and translate for the Church’s booth at the event. Shifts are from 8 am to 2 pm or 2 pm to 6:15 pm on all three days, and students are welcome to sign up for as many shifts as possible.

Perks include free entry into the conference and the good company of changemakers from all across the globe.

For more information please email ballardnews@byu.edu.

The Ballard Center’s newest club, the Social Impact Professional Association (SIPA) is looking for student leaders. The club is focused on helping students network with professionals and gain jobs in Social Impact. SIPA is in need of students who are willing to work on Event Planning, Networking, and Communications and Marketing. If you are interested, please sent an email to SIPA.BYU@gmail.com with the subject “Club Leadership Opportunity”. Include your name, some information about yourself, and what area you would like to be involved in.

$8,000 in prize money is up for grabs! All you have to do is create and submit avideo that tells the story of a social problem being solved. BYU students and BYU
alumni are invited to participate!
Submissions are due Monday October 21, 2019.

Click here to learn more!

Hope4Utah is an educational organization that combines the efforts of schools, communities, and mental health services for suicide prevention. We work with school advisors to train groups of students, called Hope Squads, to recognize warning signs of suicide in their peers, reach out to them, and seek help from adults.

RepowerU is a great Fall internship Opportunity!

RepowerU makes software to prevent campus sexual assault. They are looking for interns who are creative and want to apply research findings to the real world to make a real difference.

Interns will create a survey for college students who take RepowerU’s sexual assault prevention trainings, to measure their attitudes about sexual assault before and after training.

Once the survey is made, they will research the best contents for training modules to prevent relational violence, harassment, stalking, and cybercrime, which will be produced in the winter.

Qualifications: Experience or interest in survey creation and validation, interest in sexual assault prevention.

Contact Spencer Ford at 615-542-3332 or spenceraford@gmail.com for details.

Sutherland Institute, a Salt Lake City think tank with state and national influence, is looking for communications and policy interns for Fall 2019. The deadline for applications is July 19, 2019.

 Sutherland Institute communications interns assist the communications team with social media, marketing, and more. Due to Sutherland’s various channels of outreach, a communications internship offers something new each day. Communications interns may be responsible for media tracking, creating shareable social media content, writing, graphic design and completing other projects as assigned.

 Public policy and research interns are given semester-long projects that require them to research and report findings to policy analysts. These projects can range in topic, so specify your policy interests in your cover letter. Topics include economics, federalism, family, education, and religious freedom. Interns are given opportunities to contribute to Sutherland’s publications on topics they research.

 Our internships are paid by stipend depending on availability. Interested students can apply online at www.sutherlandinstitute.org/internships.  The following materials will be requested:

-Resume

-Cover letter

-Three references

-Unofficial school transcript

-Writing sample

-Design portfolio (if experienced in graphic design)

 Please email Amber Maxfield at amber@sifreedom.org with any questions