Intern - Child Protection Services (Summer)

Position Description

This position’s primary purpose is to assist Family Services Specialists with families whose children have been reported or identified as being unsafe and who may be placed out of their parent’s home. These duties may include direct interventions with children and families through a wide range of services.

Responsibilities

• Receiving reports from the community regarding allegations of child maltreatment
• Assessments with families regarding allegations of child maltreatment
• Interventions with families to address change needed to secure child safety in their homes
• Coordinating and facilitating family team meetings
• Recruitment and support of foster and relative homes caring for maltreated children
• Matching of resource families for children unable to return to their birth families

Qualifications

• Applicant must be enrolled as a part-time/full-time student at a college, university, or technical institute at the time they apply.
• By the start of the internship, the student should have completed one year (nine months) of their chosen program.
• All students are encouraged to apply, but preference may be given to applicants with a standing of junior/senior, South Dakota residents, and students of South Dakota institutions.

Schedule

Session: Summer (May - August)

Pay

Minimum Salary: $20.82

Location

Aberdeen, SD

Agency

Department of Social Services / Child Protection Services