Social Services & Healthcare

Spring 2024

Position: Undergraduate Intern 
Student: Psychology Senior 

The organization is Austin Family Institute which is a non-profit counseling office that provides affordable mental healthcare for clients. I found out about this internship through my psychology organization called Women In Psychology. Someone who was previously an intern there had mentioned that they were looking for new interns. My duties at the internship are to do clerical work in the front office as well as be a part of weekly group supervision, observe individual supervision with our therapist interns, and view videos of sessions. My projects include a genogram project, a clinical project, and an admin project. My favorite thing about the internship is that I’m in a therapy setting and getting to know how the therapists are going about their licensing.

Fall 2023

Position: Undergraduate Intern
Student: Psychology Senior

I’m interning at Austin Family Institute in Bee Caves. I found out about this opportunity through the psychology career canvas course moderated by Liberal Arts Career Services. Weekly, I do administrative tasks like scheduling and phone intake. On Mondays, I attend group meetings where the therapists present on different therapeutic theories/modalities and present client cases. I also attend weekly group supervision where I get to sit in on discussions over client cases. I also have 3 projects; a genogram, a clinical presentation on a topic of my choosing, and an admin project to improve efficiency of the office. My favorite thing about working at this family and couples therapy practice is the culture/environment – everyone is so friendly and easygoing.

Summer 2023

Position: Undergraduate Intern 
Student: Psychology Senior 

Austin Family Institute is a non-profit therapy and training organization dedicated to providing  affordable therapeutic services through a sliding scale payment system based on clients' household income. This internship opportunity came to my attention through both independent online searching and a recommendation from career services. As an intern at Austin Family Institute, my primary responsibilities revolve around handling various administrative tasks. These tasks include managing incoming client calls, maintaining detailed phone logs, setting up clients in our therapy portal, creating and sending documents to clients, and organizing personal health information. Additionally, I am responsible for corresponding with therapists and clients to stay informed about upcoming appointments, ensuring the smooth operation of the office, and assisting with office cleaning and closing procedures. Throughout the internship, undergraduate interns are expected to complete three projects: a genogram project, an administrative project, and a clinical project. My favorite thing about my internship are my individual and group supervision meetings where I get to sit in and observe the therapists discuss approaches and theories in family therapy as well as go over their current cases while receiving input and advice from the other therapists. Witnessing the therapeutic process in action is extremely interesting and exciting. I have the opportunity to observe how the concepts and ideas I've learned in my classes, and even those I'm currently being introduced to, are applied in real-life practice. I would highly recommend interning at this organization to anyone interested in the mental health field. 

Spring 2023

Position: Undergraduate Intern
Student: Psychology Junior

Austin Family Institute is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit therapy center offering individual, couples, and family therapy. This organization also trains emerging clinicians in marriage and family therapy, offering graduate and clinical therapist positions. I found this internship through an email from my academic advisor. My administrative duties at the Austin Family Institute as an undergraduate intern include managing the daily tasks including scheduling new clients, following up on emails, voicemails, and online inquiries, and organizing all general and financial records. For the clinical side of the internship, I am responsible for shadowing both group and individual supervision sessions between therapists and the director. Finally, I am responsible for completing two clinical projects and an administrative project of my choice. My favorite thing about the internship has been getting direct exposure to the therapeutic process and creating new connections with professionals in the field of mental healthcare.

Spring 2020

Position: Undergraduate Intern
Student: Psychology Senior

Austin Family Institute is a non-profit counseling/therapy and training institute providing the opportunity for junior and senior students to receive direct exposure to a clinical and private practice therapy setting. Along with extensive clerical experience in a private practice setting, undergraduates can participate in weekly group supervision, observe individual supervision with therapist interns, and view videos of sessions. Interns are trained to do almost all aspects of running the administrative side in a therapy practice in the software Theranest. In addition, there are weekly meetings in which therapists teach on a specific concept in therapy and present a current case they need advice on. There are two projects that the interns are expected to turn in by the end of the semester: an office project that contributes to better efficiency in the office, and a presentation on something related to family systems. It is a unique and rare opportunity for those interested in about entering the mental health field.

Spring 2018

Position: Pharmacy Technician
Student: Sociology Senior

I decided to intern with Baylor Scott and White Healthcare (BSWH) in Round Rock due to my interests in pharmacy and healthcare administration. I chose BSWH over competing healthcare facilities in the area because of their mission statement. BSWH is very open to personalized healthcare and receptive to innovative ideas. The company is very supportive of their employees continued education and helps them reach their goals. I felt supported immediately during my interview and on my first day. As a native of Round Rock, I see what BSWH offers the growing community and wanted to be a part of it!

My shift begins at noon and the first thing I do is get information about what has been going on since I was last in the pharmacy. The morning and afternoon teams discuss the drug backorders and shortages and how we will tackle the situation. Once I am caught up, I check our list of IV medications that need to be made. I plan my day around this task, since it is the most time consuming. Once I am done, I deliver medications to our medication dispensing machines in the entire hospital. This includes refilling narcotics and patient specific medications. Once I come back from my delivery, I go into our clean room and begin preparing the IV fluids that are needed for the day. I also batch IV fluids that have long stability for the week. As soon as I am out of the clean room, I refill kits for our medical staff as well as take care of tasks assigned by the pharmacists. I also answer the phone and help the nurses and medical staff locate their drugs. 

The last task I take care of before leaving is ordering drugs for the next day. Since I am the main pharmacy technician on the weekends, I am in charge of keeping track of inventory. I make sure to order the correct and appropriate amount of drugs for the weekday. Once the night team comes in, I pass on vital information about the day.

Spring 2016 Site Review

Position: Clinical Intern
Student: UTeach Liberal Arts

Center for Autism and Related Disorders is a privately owned healthcare clinic dedicated to providing services to children with autism and their families. Our primary service to patients is ABA therapy – Applied Behavior Analysis. Applied Behavior Analysis is a one-on-one therapy given to children who have autism in order to help them catch up on developmental milestones that their normally developing peers have already reached. These milestones include language skills, motor skills, socialization, and other essential tools that children need in order to thrive.

Interns are highly trained in ABA therapy before they begin providing therapy independent of a supervisor. Training consists of 40 hours of videos and role playing provided by the office, and then several weeks of overlapping other therapists’ sessions and slowly taking more responsibility in each therapy session. Eventually, interns will be assigned their own clients and given a permanent work schedule for the semester.

Interns should expect to work about 10-15 hours per week unless told otherwise by the supervisor. In addition to working these 10-15 hours every week, interns are expected to fill in for other therapists during times they are available. When applying for this job, interns will fill out an availability form, and if they say they are available at a specific time, say Tuesday afternoons, and another therapist can’t make their Tuesday afternoon therapy session, you may be required to fill in for them. If interns do not want to do fill ins at a specific time, they should mark that time as unavailable.

As for the roles of an intern you are considered a Behavior Therapist, just like everyone else. You are responsible for providing ABA therapy to your client, attending clinics with patients, parents and supervisors to communicate progress and needed changes, and for taking accurate data on your client in order to keep track of progress.

Fall 2020 Site Review

Position: Child Life Practicum
Student: Health and Society Senior

This semester, I completed my child life practicum at Dell Children’s Medical Center which I discovered from a professor’s recommendation. Dell Children’s is the only free-standing children’s hospital in Austin, and the child life department helps supports children psychosocial and developmental needs during their time at the hospital. As a student in this program, I completed two rotations in out-patient imaging and in-patient post-surgery trauma. Throughout my practicum experience, I facilitated therapeutic and developmental play in English and Spanish in the playroom and at the patient’s bedside. In this student position, I had so many opportunities to observe Certified Child Life Specialists provide procedural supports, preparations, supportive conversations, and medical play sessions. I would then complete discussions and completed assignments about my observations. I gained skills in developmental and psychosocial assessment of hospitalized children with a variety of diagnoses and injuries, and I gained experience introducing child life services to patients and families. A project worked on during one of my rotations was creating sibling books in English and Spanish that contained developmentally appropriate information about the hospital and their sibling’s medical experience. My favorite part of my internship was my working with my incredibly supportive supervisors who helped me learn so much about the field of child life.

Summer 2016 

Position: Cancer Policy Intern
Student: Plan II Senior

This summer I had the incredible opportunity to intern with the George Washington University Cancer Institute in Washington D.C. The GW Cancer Institute is housed within the GW Medical School and is the policy-focused institution of the larger cancer treatment center. The Cancer Institute is fairly small but does a lot of important work in providing patient-centered support, survivorship programs, and catalyzing efforts and research to reduce cancer health disparities. The Washington D.C. area faces a lot of unique problems because despite being a well-populated urban center many of its inhabitants do not receive adequate access to screenings, prevention programs, and treatments.

My specific project was focused on cataloguing access to cancer care on a national level and trying to see not only how DC policies differ from other states but also which policies can be implemented institutionally to mitigate disparities.  This project arose from the recent development that the GW cancer hospital is going to begin accepting Medicaid insurance to cover the cost of treatment. The institute is beginning to develop policies to roll out this change. My project explored numerous topics and tried to answer questions such as “What policies contribute to states with high or low provider participation rates” and “How do Medicaid FFS and MCO provider participation rates vary by state?” I also looked to analyze the state of oncology care in states which have opted to expand Medicaid and how this expansion has improved access to care.

My internship was a bit unique as I was worked from a remote site due to the office moving locations but, overall, it was an incredible opportunity to learn more about analyzing health policy as well as the process of creating policy on an institutional or hospital-wide level.

I cannot state enough how impactful this internship was on my own personal and professional development. My policy experience in the past had been limited to legislative work and I left that internship appreciating the experience but knowing that I never wanted to work in that type of environment again. This internship, however, demonstrated how very different policy work is in an institution or more specifically, a hospital. The work I was doing had a very real and direct impact because the recommendations and analysis I created would affect the way the hospital’s new Medicaid policy would be rolled out. As a future medical professional, I really enjoyed this hospital policy environment much more because all of the work was completely focused on patients and patient care.

Spring 2018

Position: Pharmacy Technician
Student: Sociology Senior

I decided to intern with Baylor Scott and White Healthcare (BSWH) in Round Rock due to my interests in pharmacy and healthcare administration. I chose BSWH over competing healthcare facilities in the area because of their mission statement. BSWH is very open to personalized healthcare and receptive to innovative ideas. The company is very supportive of their employees continued education and helps them reach their goals. I felt supported immediately during my interview and on my first day. As a native of Round Rock, I see what BSWH offers the growing community and wanted to be a part of it!

My shift begins at noon and the first thing I do is get information about what has been going on since I was last in the pharmacy. The morning and afternoon teams discuss the drug backorders and shortages and how we will tackle the situation. Once I am caught up, I check our list of IV medications that need to be made. I plan my day around this task, since it is the most time consuming. Once I am done, I deliver medications to our medication dispensing machines in the entire hospital. This includes refilling narcotics and patient specific medications. Once I come back from my delivery, I go into our clean room and begin preparing the IV fluids that are needed for the day. I also batch IV fluids that have long stability for the week. As soon as I am out of the clean room, I refill kits for our medical staff as well as take care of tasks assigned by the pharmacists. I also answer the phone and help the nurses and medical staff locate their drugs. 

The last task I take care of before leaving is ordering drugs for the next day. Since I am the main pharmacy technician on the weekends, I am in charge of keeping track of inventory. I make sure to order the correct and appropriate amount of drugs for the weekday. Once the night team comes in, I pass on vital information about the day.

Spring 2016

Position: Clinical Intern
Student: UTeach Liberal Arts

Center for Autism and Related Disorders is a privately owned healthcare clinic dedicated to providing services to children with autism and their families. Our primary service to patients is ABA therapy – Applied Behavior Analysis. Applied Behavior Analysis is a one-on-one therapy given to children who have autism in order to help them catch up on developmental milestones that their normally developing peers have already reached. These milestones include language skills, motor skills, socialization, and other essential tools that children need in order to thrive.

Interns are highly trained in ABA therapy before they begin providing therapy independent of a supervisor. Training consists of 40 hours of videos and role playing provided by the office, and then several weeks of overlapping other therapists’ sessions and slowly taking more responsibility in each therapy session. Eventually, interns will be assigned their own clients and given a permanent work schedule for the semester.

Interns should expect to work about 10-15 hours per week unless told otherwise by the supervisor. In addition to working these 10-15 hours every week, interns are expected to fill in for other therapists during times they are available. When applying for this job, interns will fill out an availability form, and if they say they are available at a specific time, say Tuesday afternoons, and another therapist can’t make their Tuesday afternoon therapy session, you may be required to fill in for them. If interns do not want to do fill ins at a specific time, they should mark that time as unavailable.

As for the roles of an intern you are considered a Behavior Therapist, just like everyone else. You are responsible for providing ABA therapy to your client, attending clinics with patients, parents and supervisors to communicate progress and needed changes, and for taking accurate data on your client in order to keep track of progress.

Fall 2020

Position: Child Life Practicum
Student: Health and Society Senior

This semester, I completed my child life practicum at Dell Children’s Medical Center which I discovered from a professor’s recommendation. Dell Children’s is the only free-standing children’s hospital in Austin, and the child life department helps supports children psychosocial and developmental needs during their time at the hospital. As a student in this program, I completed two rotations in out-patient imaging and in-patient post-surgery trauma. Throughout my practicum experience, I facilitated therapeutic and developmental play in English and Spanish in the playroom and at the patient’s bedside. In this student position, I had so many opportunities to observe Certified Child Life Specialists provide procedural supports, preparations, supportive conversations, and medical play sessions. I would then complete discussions and completed assignments about my observations. I gained skills in developmental and psychosocial assessment of hospitalized children with a variety of diagnoses and injuries, and I gained experience introducing child life services to patients and families. A project worked on during one of my rotations was creating sibling books in English and Spanish that contained developmentally appropriate information about the hospital and their sibling’s medical experience. My favorite part of my internship was my working with my incredibly supportive supervisors who helped me learn so much about the field of child life.

Summer 2016 

Position: Cancer Policy Intern
Student: Plan II Senior

This summer I had the incredible opportunity to intern with the George Washington University Cancer Institute in Washington D.C. The GW Cancer Institute is housed within the GW Medical School and is the policy-focused institution of the larger cancer treatment center. The Cancer Institute is fairly small but does a lot of important work in providing patient-centered support, survivorship programs, and catalyzing efforts and research to reduce cancer health disparities. The Washington D.C. area faces a lot of unique problems because despite being a well-populated urban center many of its inhabitants do not receive adequate access to screenings, prevention programs, and treatments.

My specific project was focused on cataloguing access to cancer care on a national level and trying to see not only how DC policies differ from other states but also which policies can be implemented institutionally to mitigate disparities.  This project arose from the recent development that the GW cancer hospital is going to begin accepting Medicaid insurance to cover the cost of treatment. The institute is beginning to develop policies to roll out this change. My project explored numerous topics and tried to answer questions such as “What policies contribute to states with high or low provider participation rates” and “How do Medicaid FFS and MCO provider participation rates vary by state?” I also looked to analyze the state of oncology care in states which have opted to expand Medicaid and how this expansion has improved access to care.

My internship was a bit unique as I was worked from a remote site due to the office moving locations but, overall, it was an incredible opportunity to learn more about analyzing health policy as well as the process of creating policy on an institutional or hospital-wide level.

I cannot state enough how impactful this internship was on my own personal and professional development. My policy experience in the past had been limited to legislative work and I left that internship appreciating the experience but knowing that I never wanted to work in that type of environment again. This internship, however, demonstrated how very different policy work is in an institution or more specifically, a hospital. The work I was doing had a very real and direct impact because the recommendations and analysis I created would affect the way the hospital’s new Medicaid policy would be rolled out. As a future medical professional, I really enjoyed this hospital policy environment much more because all of the work was completely focused on patients and patient care.

Spring 2022

Position: Intern
Student: Sociology

I interned at Great Minds Learning Community which is a small micro-school for kids with learning differences, such as ADHD and Autism. I found the internship on Indeed. In this position I watch over the students, lead activities, help them through activities, and help clean the school after kids leave. We also have weekly meetings in which we discuss the week. I didn’t have many assignments or projects apart from sending in photos and brief overviews on what some of the kids and I worked on, so the teacher was up to date. I really enjoyed interacting with the kids and seeing them grow. Since they all had some sort of learning difference, the stretch and grow so much in their assignments and its awesome to see them shine.

Spring 2016 

Position: Research Intern
Student: Psychology Senior

Johnson Center for Child Health and Development is a center that focuses on children with autism and developmental disabilities. Although we have a small office in Austin, there are clients that come from forty nine states and fifty four countries. We offer services from an Applied Behavioral Analysis, a child life specialist, a nutritionist, a counseling psychologist, a doctor and a nurse. In addition to that, Johnson Center focuses very heavily on research. Research is one of the most effective ways to come up with new treatments and interventions for children with autism. This comes in terms of labs and in terms of collecting data from parents and caregivers. Their mission is to “to advance the understanding of childhood development through clinical care, research, and education.” 

I can say from experience that they truly carry those values in mind with each thing that they do. From having special programs for siblings and families, to educating the community on autism research, they dedicate everything that they do to their mission. Last semester my role was to score the Parental Stress Index Reports and the Pervasive Developmental Disorder Behavioral Inventories. This semester my role was a research assistant under the Effectiveness of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet. We are surveying parents and caregivers that have already implemented the SCD and evaluating how effective it was in terms of GI issues, behavioral patterns, and food selectivity. 

Beyond all of those things, Johnson Center makes every intern and employee feel like they are a valuable member of the team. This ranges from celebrating every person’s birthday to making sure that every intern is going in a good direction for the future.

Fall 2020

Position: GYN Intern
Student: Health and Society Senior

Student Name: Callie Kurpiewski

Modern women’s health is a women’s health doctor in Westlake, Texas. Dr. Lisa Jukes is the owner of this practice, and she focuses on gynecological services with an emphasis on patients’ overall health and well-being. We offer care to patients in adolescence, adulthood, and menopause. I help assist with administration as well as clinical duties. I have put my skills with excel to use and have done health screenings for COVID. Clinically I have set up and assisted with procedures and wellness checks. I stock medical supplies when needed and run tests for things like pregnancy, UTIs, blood in the urine, and blood in the stool. Working hands on with patients has been an amazing experience and I am thankful to have had mentors to help me along the way. I established this internship through a family friend, but they would love to connect with other UT Austin students!

Spring 2016 

Position: Direct Casework Intern
Student: Sociology Senior

As a Direct Casework Intern/Reentry Casework Intern, your overall goal is to help underserved people navigate different obstacles in life, access resources and programs, and facilitate reentry for those who have criminal records or are experiencing homelessness. Before you start meeting with clients, you shadow the other caseworkers and learn about the jargon and protocol that is involved with our clients’ typical situations.

You also must familiarize yourself with the various organizations that our clients are typically in contact with that shape their experience. Our clients experience a broad range of obstacles, but the most prevalent ones include unemployment, housing scarcity, food and clothing scarcity, and lack of healthcare. The way we tackle these issues is by meeting one-on-one with each client on a weekly basis. We start by asking the client about their background and progress towards discussing what their main concerns and goals are at the moment or what brought them into Redemptive Work and then work toward future goals.

If the client has a criminal record, you ask them if they want to get a background check by the church and you go over their charges with them to make sure the information is correct. If they are looking for employment, housing, food, clothing or healthcare, you refer to the resource list and provide them information about the organizations that provide these services and the eligibility requirements of these organizations, and you provide clients with the contact information.

All of this is recorded on an intake form, and the next time you meet with the client you ask them about their progress thus far on achieving their goals.  Finally, you end the meeting by asking them if they need food from the pantry, clothes from our thrift store, or any hygiene products. Aside from seeing clients, you spend the rest of your time working on various research projects that will aid in gathering information on resources for clients.

Spring 2018

Position: Intern
Student: Psychology Senior 

Spark Learning is an Applied Behavioral Analysis clinic that specializes in behavioral therapy for children with autism, ADHD, PDD and other related needs. The goal of a behavioral therapist is to develop the child’s behavior regulation, language proficiency, communication, social, academic, self-help, and play skills through ABA therapy. As an intern at Spark, I had the opportunity to not only learn and shadow from experienced behavioral therapist, but I was also assigned client’s of my own. I was expected to develop rapport with each of my clients and understand their interests and goals in order to individualize the session to each child. I then had to become familiar with their goals and targets and learn how to implement their intervention to be most effective for each individual client. I was responsible for planning each lesson plan that included everyday activities that allowed the child to generalize their targets in other domains. On average, each activity had to hit one target per minute. During each session, I had a data sheet that listed all the targets and goals and I was responsible for recording what level of prompt the child needed to reach a certain target. At the end of the session, I was required to write a daily progress note that included a summary of the session, what goals were targeted, whether any goals were master and if the child had any challenging behaviors. Lastly, I analyzed the data that I recorded during the session and made any necessary updates to the child’s data sheet for their next session. But most importantly, my position at Spark Learning has given me the opportunity to develop quality experience working with children.

Spring 2021

Position: Customer Success and Enablement Intern
Major: Psychology Freshman
Name: Aishini Damaraju

Swift Medical is a Canadian healthcare technology start-up that specializes in wound care. They have developed an app which allows healthcare workers to image and determine the dimensions of a wound using only the camera on their cell phone. In current practice, the most common way to measure a wound is by using a paper ruler. But this method is highly inaccurate and cannot provide the precision necessary in wound-care treatment. Swift’s goal is to utilize their technology to standardize and use a more data-driven approach with an emphasis on precision, to improve the standard of wound care.

I found this internship through a mentor I met during a previous internship. My mentor introduced me to my internship supervisor, and after a series of interviews, I was accepted to Swift as an intern in the Customer Success and Enablement department. I was placed in a team of students called “StartEx”, and my project during this internship was to develop a series of communications aimed toward clinical users when Swift was integrating and enabling their technology with a new client. The goal of the campaign was to provide the clinical users with more information about Swift and how to utilize it, before they actually begin using it in practice. During this project, I had the opportunity to work with various departments at Swift including the clinical team to understand the clinical basis of the technology, the customer success department to understand Swift’s enablement procedure, and finally, the marketing team in order to ensure that the campaign aligned with Swift’s image and correctly represented the company.

Fall 2020

Position: GYN Intern
Student: Health and Society Senior

Modern women’s health is a women’s health doctor in Westlake, Texas. Dr. Lisa Jukes is the owner of this practice, and she focuses on gynecological services with an emphasis on patients’ overall health and well-being. We offer care to patients in adolescence, adulthood, and menopause. I help assist with administration as well as clinical duties. I have put my skills with Excel to use and have done health screenings for COVID. Clinically I have set up and assisted with procedures and wellness checks. I stock medical supplies when needed and run tests for things like pregnancy, UTIs, blood in the urine, and blood in the stool. Working hands on with patients has been an amazing experience and I am thankful to have had mentors to help me along the way. I established this internship through a family friend, but they would love to connect with other UT Austin students!

Spring 2016 

Position: Direct Casework Intern
Student: Sociology Senior

As a Direct Casework Intern/Reentry Casework Intern, your overall goal is to help underserved people navigate different obstacles in life, access resources and programs, and facilitate reentry for those who have criminal records or are experiencing homelessness. Before you start meeting with clients, you shadow the other caseworkers and learn about the jargon and protocol that is involved with our clients’ typical situations.

You also must familiarize yourself with the various organizations that our clients are typically in contact with that shape their experience. Our clients experience a broad range of obstacles, but the most prevalent ones include unemployment, housing scarcity, food and clothing scarcity, and lack of healthcare. The way we tackle these issues is by meeting one-on-one with each client on a weekly basis. We start by asking the client about their background and progress towards discussing what their main concerns and goals are at the moment or what brought them into Redemptive Work and then work toward future goals.

If the client has a criminal record, you ask them if they want to get a background check by the church and you go over their charges with them to make sure the information is correct. If they are looking for employment, housing, food, clothing or healthcare, you refer to the resource list and provide them information about the organizations that provide these services and the eligibility requirements of these organizations, and you provide clients with the contact information.

All of this is recorded on an intake form, and the next time you meet with the client you ask them about their progress thus far on achieving their goals.  Finally, you end the meeting by asking them if they need food from the pantry, clothes from our thrift store, or any hygiene products. Aside from seeing clients, you spend the rest of your time working on various research projects that will aid in gathering information on resources for clients.

Spring 2018

Position: Intern
Student: Psychology Senior 

Spark Learning is an Applied Behavioral Analysis clinic that specializes in behavioral therapy for children with autism, ADHD, PDD and other related needs. The goal of a behavioral therapist is to develop the child’s behavior regulation, language proficiency, communication, social, academic, self-help, and play skills through ABA therapy.

As an intern at Spark, I had the opportunity to not only learn and shadow from experienced behavioral therapist, but I was also assigned client’s of my own. I was expected to develop rapport with each of my clients and understand their interests and goals in order to individualize the session to each child. I then had to become familiar with their goals and targets and learn how to implement their intervention to be most effective for each individual client. I was responsible for planning each lesson plan that included everyday activities that allowed the child to generalize their targets in other domains. On average, each activity had to hit one target per minute. During each session, I had a data sheet that listed all the targets and goals and I was responsible for recording what level of prompt the child needed to reach a certain target. At the end of the session, I was required to write a daily progress note that included a summary of the session, what goals were targeted, whether any goals were master and if the child had any challenging behaviors. Lastly, I analyzed the data that I recorded during the session and made any necessary updates to the child’s data sheet for their next session. But most importantly, my position at Spark Learning has given me the opportunity to develop quality experience working with children.

Spring 2024

Position: Intern
Student: Psychology Major

I have enjoyed my time as an intern at Providence Behavior Therapy. This opportunity was presented to me by an old co-worker at a previous summer internship. As an intern, I am expected to be very flexible and essentially be a helping hand around the office. I have many duties as an intern that change daily. I make social media content, create theraputic materials, scan, file, organize, decorate, and clean. My favorite thing about the internship is the fluidity. I am encouraged to do more of the things that I like and are beneficial to me.

Spring 2021

Position: Customer Success and Enablement Intern
Student: Psychology Freshman
Swift Medical is a Canadian healthcare technology start-up that specializes in wound care. They have developed an app which allows healthcare workers to image and determine the dimensions of a wound using only the camera on their cell phone. In current practice, the most common way to measure a wound is by using a paper ruler. But this method is highly inaccurate and cannot provide the precision necessary in wound-care treatment. Swift’s goal is to utilize their technology to standardize and use a more data-driven approach with an emphasis on precision, to improve the standard of wound care.

I found this internship through a mentor I met during a previous internship. My mentor introduced me to my internship supervisor, and after a series of interviews, I was accepted to Swift as an intern in the Customer Success and Enablement department. I was placed in a team of students called “StartEx”, and my project during this internship was to develop a series of communications aimed toward clinical users when Swift was integrating and enabling their technology with a new client. The goal of the campaign was to provide the clinical users with more information about Swift and how to utilize it, before they actually begin using it in practice. During this project, I had the opportunity to work with various departments at Swift including the clinical team to understand the clinical basis of the technology, the customer success department to understand Swift’s enablement procedure, and finally, the marketing team in order to ensure that the campaign aligned with Swift’s image and correctly represented the company.

Spring 2022

Position: Intern
Student: Sociology

I interned at Great Minds Learning Community which is a small micro-school for kids with learning differences, such as ADHD and Autism. I found the internship on Indeed. In this position I watch over the students, lead activities, help them through activities, and help clean the school after kids leave. We also have weekly meetings in which we discuss the week. I didn’t have many assignments or projects a part from sending in photos and brief overviews on what some of the kids and I worked on, so the teacher was up to date. I really enjoyed interacting with the kids and seeing them grow. Since they all had some sort of learning difference, the stretch and grow so much in their assignments and its awesome to see them shine.