Assistant (disabilities)
LOCATION
SCHEDULE OPTIONS
Semester availability
FallSpring
Summer
Service hours
MorningAfternoon
Available days/hours
8:00 - 3:00, Monday through Friday.
REQUIRED/DESIRED SKILLS
Flexible, people oriented, basic education and socialization skills. Specific areas of focus may include working with 3 basic age groups (children, adults and seniors), some knowledge of challenges facing people with disabilities, patient and understanding demeanor, ability to mentor.
CATEGORIES
AdultsDisabilities
Education
Elderly
Health Services
Mentoring
Social Services
Special Education
Youth (direct interaction)
Youth II: 5-11 years (K-6th grades)
Youth III: 11-14 years (6th-9th grades)
Youth IV: 14-18 years (high school)
Youth V: 18-22 years (young adult)
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Gompers Habilitation Center
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Duties
Opportunities for involvement would include direct interaction with persons with disabilities, both children and adults, through reinforcement of program goals, mentoring, activity support, personal growth efforts, supervision in community service and recreational activities.
Population served
Gompers supports students ages 5 to 22 in our Special Education School, adults ages 22 to 85 in our Day Training for Adults program (DTA) and adults in training to work in the community in our Vocational Department. Students and clients may be affected with varying degrees of cognitive or physical disabilities.
Community need/impact
Gompers has several community volunteer collaborations in which our clients actively participate, i.e. Beatitudes Doar, where clients assist seniors who are homebound, in shopping trips, visitation and home help.
Interns supporting the clients of Gompers Habilitation Center, have the benefit of experiencing an interchange of growth potential. Our clients have increased opportunities to refine social and learning skills from interaction with interns who recognize their value and show it through support. Interns in turn can become better educated about this significant and underserved population whose presence and acknowledgment in our community brings out the best in all of us. Continued interaction also opens doors for willing interns to explore and enter secular fields of work and study which can lend themselves to increased understanding and advocacy for those in our community who face the challenges associated with various types of disabilities.
