{"id":533,"date":"2014-08-07T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/?p=533"},"modified":"2014-08-07T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T22:35:11","slug":"wasatch-mental-health-grandfamilies-program-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Wasatch Mental Health &#8211; Grandfamilies Program Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Grandfamilies-Logo.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-534 \" src=\"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Grandfamilies-Logo.gif\" alt=\"Grandfamilies Logo\" width=\"127\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Grandfamilies Internship Description<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong>(Approximately 8-10 hours per week for 3 credits or 5 hours per week for two semesters with 1.5 credits per semester):<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>Apply now for Fall Semester!!!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Engage with clients in the children\u2019s group and at monthly events called Friend 2 Friend activities to gain hands-on experience interacting with at-risk children and families<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Look for certain behaviors of kids in the children&#8217;s group and take weekly group notes to track their progress<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Work on research related to kinship care\/foster care\/kinship care programs to discover what is currently happening with kinship children and families (this information is helpful in the grant writing process)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Participate in at least one community council meeting to gain an understanding of programs available to at-risk families in the community and how they work together<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Participate in an advisory board meeting to gain a direct understanding of current issues that kinship families face and how the program helps them (the advisory board consists of a group of past program participants who gather to discuss what is working well with the program and what could be improved)<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Assist with creating and sending out invitations to monthly activities and gathering RSVPs for these events<br \/>\n<strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Learn about and assist with any other program processes as assistance is needed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Information:<\/strong><br \/>\nCatherine Jones<br \/>\nEmail: catherinej@unitedwayuc.org<br \/>\nPhone: 801-852-4491<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"lazysocialbuttons\" data-float=\"left\" data-buttons=\"google,twitter,facebook\" data-twshareurl=\"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/?p=533\" data-twtext=\"\" data-shareurl=\"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/?p=533\" data-fbhideflyout=\"false\" data-backgroundtype=\"light\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grandfamilies Internship Description (Approximately 8-10 hours per week for 3 credits or 5 hours per week for two semesters with 1.5 credits per semester): Apply now for Fall Semester!!! &#8211; Engage with clients in the children\u2019s group and at monthly &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/?p=533\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/byuinternships.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}