Various (youth)
LOCATION
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Fingerprint/background clearance is required.In order to work with youth, our interns are required to obtain an educator's fingerprint clearance card. The cost will be covered by Peer Solutions. Processing usually takes several weeks, so the application should be turned in as soon as possible. Students are able to begin their service as the fingerprint application is being processed.
SCHEDULE OPTIONS
Semester availability
FallSpring
Service hours
MorningAfternoon
Weekend
Available days/hours
Flexible: will work with intern to meet their needs as well as ours.
REQUIRED/DESIRED SKILLS
Technology skill, communication skill, time management, commitment to primary prevention and positive social change, finger print clearance, organized, willing to learn and adapt, flexible with time, and works well with all ages, especially youth.
CATEGORIES
EducationMentoring
Social Services
Youth (direct interaction)
Youth III: 11-14 years (6th-9th grades)
Youth IV: 14-18 years (high school)
Youth V: 18-22 years (young adult)
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Peer Solutions
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Duties
Interns will have the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of activities with Peer Solutions, one of them being to support STAND & SERVE, a primary prevention initiative working with youth in high schools and community centers in Phoenix and Tempe. All STAND & SERVE activities and events focus around cultivating safety, equality, and respect as norms to prevent harm to self and others. The individual will work with primary through secondary level students and will require finger print clearance. This individual will also support our monthly STAND & SERVE Community Coalition where members come together to discuss and implement their vision of safe, healthy and respectful communities. In addition, this intern will assist with the implementation, scoring, and review of evaluation tools designed to capture the effectiveness of said activities.
Population served
Elementary through post secondary students, as well as family, school, and community members. To include 11 schools and over 20 community partners.
Community need/impact
STAND & SERVE (S&S) promotes respect while preventing harm to others and/or self before it occurs by cultivating school, family, and community ownership of solutions. We believe effective social change occurs by working on an individual, relationship, community, and societal level. By utilizing this ecological model, we prevent sexual, dating, family, gang, gun and school violence, harassment, self-injury, suicide, depression, oppression, substance abuse, eating disorders, teen pregnancy, poor school performance, child abuse, homelessness and more. To prevent one is to prevent them all, as the underlying conditions that lead to their existance are similar, if not the same.
STAND & SERVE Activities Include:
1. Weekly S&S Community meetings with Tempe and Phoenix high schools, middle schools, and post secondary students from 3-5PM on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at Westside Community Center in Tempe & Machan School in Phoenix.
2. Monthly STAND & SERVE Community Coalition meetings,
3. Monthly First Friday Fun, outreach campaigns, service projects & training and
4. Ongoing evaluation and requested local and national workshops.
Through aforementioned activities, we engage the entire community to take ownership and prevent violence before it begins by cultivating safety, equality, and respect as norms. Primary prevention contributes to generations of positive social change.
