Health & Human Services Internships

About the role

Health and Human Services offer various different types of internships, both paid and unpaid. Details on types of internships are available below.

Public Health

• Public Health Specialist Internships: Designed for a broad range of degrees, focused on health education and communications areas. May work on developing and/or improving health education curriculum, community events, preparedness activities, and community health assessment and improvement planning work.
• Environmental Health Internship: For students with a science interest, focusing on environmental health including water quality, childhood lead poisoning prevention, laboratory work, environmental sample collection, and vector monitoring. Opportunities for job shadowing in other areas of environmental health.
• Public Health Nursing Internships: Based on program need, designed to meet the requirements of the community health clinical rotation.
• Women, Infants, and Children Dietetic Internship: Provides clinical experience in a community WIC setting, including nutrition counseling, breastfeeding support, biometric assessment, and community education efforts.
• ADRC Aging and Disability Resource Center Dietetic Internship: Provides opportunities for older adults, learning how to screen individuals for nutrition risk, provide nutrition counseling, document consumer interactions, and have exposure to senior nutrition programs.
• ADRC Aging and Disability Resource Center Social Work Internship: Works with older adults and adults with disabilities, learning information and assistance, options counseling, and connecting to resources and benefits. Exposure to other service areas including elder abuse investigation, senior nutrition programs, health promotion and prevention programs, and Veteran Services.

Childhood and Families

• Child Welfare Bachelor Level Internships: Designed for Social Work degrees, focusing on child welfare services within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Chapter 48. May work at community events, participate in treatment courts, and experience Access, Initial Assessment, Ongoing Services, and Foster Care Services. Job shadowing in all areas of Child Welfare is available.
• Child Welfare Master Level Internships: Designed for Master of Social Work degrees, focusing on child welfare services within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Chapter 48. Practice in Initial Assessment and then move to Ongoing Services, and experience Treatment Courts and Foster Care Services. Responsible for a Child Welfare case and implementing services during the second half of the internship.
• Child Welfare Bachelor Level Internships: Designed for Social Work degrees, focusing on learning and participating in child welfare services to children and families within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Chapter 48. May work at community events, participate in treatment courts, and experience Access, Initial Assessment, Ongoing Services, and Foster Care Services. Job shadowing in all areas of Child Welfare is available.

Youth Justice

• Bachelor level internships: Designed for social work, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology degrees, focusing on learning and participating in youth justice services to adolescents and families within standards, ordinances, and policies set forth by Wisconsin Chapter 938. Job shadowing in the area of Youth Justice is part of this internship.

Veterans

• Internships for Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science in Social Work candidates, learning about Federal and State Veterans Benefits navigation, counseling individuals on eligibility for programs, and interacting with Veterans and their beneficiaries to determine individual needs and how available programs might address those needs.

Behavioral Health

• BHU Behavioral Health Internships: Focused on providing resources and support for those with a variety of mental health needs. Assist mental health professionals with teaching coping skills, symptom management, and risk assessments.
• Behavioral Health Case Management Internships: Designed for students pursuing a Master’s degree in Social Services (e.g. Social Work, Counseling). Provide a variety of mental health services in the community such as assessments, recovery planning, skill development, individual and/or group counseling, accessing community resources, and psychoeducation.
• Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic Internships: Provide a variety of mental health services in an outpatient setting such as assessments, recovery planning, skill development, individual and/or group counseling, and psychoeducation.
• Behavioral Health Crisis Intervention Internships: Provide a variety of mental health services in the community such as crisis assessments, linkage and follow-up to community resources, and psychoeducation. Work within WI Statute 51, as well as DHS 34.

Walworth County Employee Benefit Summary

M - Casual, Limited Term, Student Workers
BARGAINING UNIT: Casual, Limited Term, Student Workers
DATE: April 25, 2017
EMPLOYMENT STATUS: All employees of Walworth County are at-will employees.
BASIS OF PAYMENT: Hourly.
VACATION: Not eligible.
SICK LEAVE: Not eligible.
HOLIDAYS: Not eligible.
Insurance
Health Insurance: Not eligible.
Dental Insurance: Not eligible.
Life Insurance: Not eligible.
LTD Insurance: Not eligible.
Vision Insurance: Not eligible.
WISCONSIN RETIREMENT: Employees expected to work less than 1200 hours per year will not receive this benefit. If an employee works 1200 hours, is employed for at least one year, and is not under 20 attending high school full-time. The employee will be expected to pay the employee portion. Walworth County will pay employer required contributions pursuant to state law. Note: This Summary provides only a brief outline of your benefits. All benefit terms and conditions are subject to the specific provisions of plan documents, policies, and/or legal rules and regulations. These benefits are subject to change from time to time by action of the County Board and/or Human Resources Committee.