Internships
Intents
ICTG internships provide opportunities for students to:
- Become more trauma informed in preparation for faithful community leadership
- Learn how a small nonprofit, with national reach, operates
- Develop project(s) to observe faithful and effective responses to trauma among communities
- Develop and practice healthy self-care
- Identify effective preparedness and resiliency practices for individuals and groups
Measures
ICTG measures successful internships by:
- Identifying learning goals in negotiation with ICTG supervisor and based on the student's vocational interests
- Producing final project(s) to observe faithful and effective responses to trauma among communities
- Participating as a team player with fellow staff and board members in ICTG activities
- Participating in weekly supervision meetings with an ICTG supervisor
- Practicing healthy self-care
Value to the Student
Trauma is all around us. Whether you anticipate becoming ordained, working with mission or ministry organizations, volunteering with a disaster response group, working in business, in medicine, in mental health, in law, in social work, or in education, you will be all the more effective with basic understanding of how trauma impacts individuals and groups as well as how care impacts individuals and groups.
Timing
ICTG internships ordinarily occur during a semester, an academic year, or a summer term.
Compensation
ICTG internships ordinarily are unpaid learning covenants for college or seminary students. Students ordinarily receive course credit and produce a final project or project series.
Methodology
ICTG interns are supervised by ICTG staff with earned post-graduate degrees at the masters or doctoral level.
ICTG intern projects are based on the student's vocational interests and may include interviewing field experts, conducting case studies, research, writing articles, planning and hosting informed social media conversations, gaining understanding in nonprofit operations and administration, learning about fundraising and donor relations, learning about faith-based and community-based partnerships in response to disaster, or developing new resources for faith leaders.
ICTG intern projects are based on the student's vocational interests and may include interviewing field experts, conducting case studies, research, writing articles, planning and hosting informed social media conversations, gaining understanding in nonprofit operations and administration, learning about fundraising and donor relations, learning about faith-based and community-based partnerships in response to disaster, or developing new resources for faith leaders.
