Advocacy Organizations
Internship Opportunities
Participating in
an internship through the Women's and Gender Studies Program is an
opportunity to gain invaluable experience while earning academic
credit. The following organizations can provide you with practical
knowledge in a wide variety of human services. Taking part in this
program will increase your community and global awareness while
strengthening the ties between local agencies meeting women's needs and
the University of Vermont. Students work 10-12 hours per week at
local women's agencies, in consultation with faculty sponsors.
The internship also involves an academic
component of reading and writing agreed upon by the intern and the faculty
sponsor. Typically, the sponsor and the
student intern generate a list of readings that will place the intern’s
experience in a scholarly or theoretical context. The intern usually keeps a journal of the
experience and writes a seminar-length paper at the semester’s end, bringing
the experience and the reading together.
The sponsor assigns a grade for the internship, based on the academic
work completed. We recommend that the
sponsor and the student write up a “syllabus” or contract for the internship at
the beginning of the semester, so that requirements and expectations are clear.Contact your advisor or the director of Women's and Gender Studies
The Service Learning
Internship Program (SLIP) also provides internship and noncredit community
service opportunities. For more information, contact Mary Beth Barritt, Career
Services, at 656-3450, Mary.Barritt@uvm.edu.
- Champlain Valley Agency
on Aging
John Barbour
P.O. Box 158
Winooski, VT 05404-0158
Phone: (802) 865-0360
Interns provide companionship for
elders and assist on special projects.
- Chittenden Community Action
Peggy Treanor
191 North Street
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 863-6248 x736
Email:
mtreanor@vcoeo.org
Interns serve the interests of low
income persons, most of whom are women and children.
- COTS Families in
Transition
Kelley Newell
179 South Winooski Avenue, Suite 4
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 864-7402 x117
Interns provide advocacy, transitional
support, social services, tutoring, and child care to single women with
children.
- COTS Firehouse Family
Shelter
Mary Anne Kohn
120 North Champlain Street
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 864-6567
Interns provide child care, housing
assistance, education, advocacy, and support services to homeless
families and children.
- COTS Streetwork Program
Kelley Newell
179 South Winooski Avenue, Suite 4
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 864-7402 x117
Interns work as community support
workers.
Janet Francis, Program Director
79 Allen Martin Drive
Essex Junction, VT 05452
Phone: (802) 878-7131 x 101 or (800)
639-3055
Interns have a
wide variety of options to choose from including communication,
web design, legislative, newsletter publishing, membership, community
outreach, program design in sports, science, and technology. We
encourage interns to propose their own student-designed programs.
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Opportunitues
- Girl Zone
MJ
Reale
Email: mjr110@adelphia.net
Interns have many opportunities to
choose from including research, public relations, writing editorial,
managing membership, monitoring chats with girls on a variety of
topics, review other zines and recommend for sponsorship, graphics and
illustrations.
- Grounds for Health
A. August Burns, PA, MPH,
CM
Grounds for Health, Inc.
P.O. Box 7
Waterbury, VT 05676
Phone: (802) 241- 4146
Fax: (802) 241-4166
email: groundsforhealth@groundsforhealth.org
Interns have the opportunity to learn about international women's
health, program planning, marketing, communications, and the running of
a non-profit. Tasks are varied dependent on the needs of this
fast-paced organization and can include assisiting in fundraising
tasks, writing articles about the work, producing newsletters, as well
as administrative and support tasks.
- Ladies
First
Tracy Phillips
Vermont Dept. of Health
108 Cherry St., P.O. Box 70
Burlington, VT
05402
Phone: (802) 863-7331
Ladies First provides cancer screening
to low income Vermont women. The possibilities for interns are
many and diverse. Interns can choose to create lists of resources
for health education opportunities for low income women across the
state of Vermont, to assist in creating a resource manual for low-cost
pharmaceuticals for women in high risk populations. Intrems can assist
with health outreach to groups or individual minority women's groups,
health fairs, etc., data collection, office support.
- The Lund Family Center
Jamie Tourangeau, HR Volunteer Director
76 Glen Road
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 864-7467
Interns assist
with planned parenting classes, work one-on-one with clients,
and help in the day care or in the classroom; they also may assist in
the adoption area or in the Life Skills/Transitional Program.
- Peace and Justice Center
Chris Meehan
21 Church Street
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 863-2345
Interns may work with the center staff
on the Racial Justice and Equity Project; the Livable Wage Campaign;
and other areas involving economic, racial, and social justice. Work
may involve maintaining and upgrading the center's extensive lending
library or assisting staff of the Peace and Justice Store.
- Planned Parenthood
Elizabeth Cukor, Community Engagement Coordinator
Planned Parenthood of Northern New
England
183 Talcott Rd,
Suite 101
Williston , VT 05495 802-288-8448
Positions involve community outreach and education, research and identify possible
venues for community outreach, prepare materials for and
publicize outreach events,
assist with outreach including staffing booths and communicating to the
public about Planned Parenthood’s services. Additional duties may
include
helping maintain PPNNE’s databases and other office work.
- Project HOME
Kirby Dunn, Director
187 St. Paul Street
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 836-5625
Email: home@sover.net
Project HOME seeks interns who are
interested in aging, disabilities,and affordable housing. Interns act
as direct service interviewers and match counselors.
- Reach Up/Vermont Department of P.A.T.H.
Anne McBee
1193 North Ave., Suite 5
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 863-7404
Email: annem@wpgate1.ahs.state.vt.us
Interns provide case management
services, information, and advocacy to low income single parents in the
Burlington area.
- Vermont Commission on Women
Lily Talbert
126 State Street
Montpelier, VT
05633-6801
Phone: (802) 828-2841 or (800) 881-1561
Email:
ltalbert@women.state.vt.us
Interns conduct
legal research, and monitor and report on public policy issues such as
reproductive rights,
pay equity,
welfare
reform, violence
against
women, and child care. Interns may also write for the VCW's
newsletter
and help plan
special events and projects.
Judy Scott,
Coordinator Of Volunteer Services
Phone: (802)
338-4627
462 Hegeman Ave., Suite 101
Colchester, VT 05446
Reception and
placement project PROGRESS, English language training,
employment assistance, volunteer
program,
refugee
youth
program,
refugee elder program. JT interpreting and translating services.
- Vermont
Woman Publishing
Margatet Michniewicz,
Editor
4 Laurel Hill - Suite 5
S.
Burlington, VT 05403
Phone:
(802) 861-6200
Email:
editor@vermontwoman.com
Statewide news monthly
dedicated
to women’s
voices and perspectives for the 21st century. Opportunities to
work
in all aspects of the publication including: newsroom, ;production
department,
marketing/sales, event planning.
- Vermont
Women's Choice
Martha Brace
23 Mansfield Ave..
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 863-9001
Creative internship opportunities are
available that may include office, administrative, or clinical work.
- Women
Helping Battered Women
Anera Foco, Agency Coordinator
279 N. Winooski Ave.
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 658-3131
Opportunities exist for work on the
hotline or in advocacy, shelter assistance, children's services, or
community outreach.
- Women's Rape Crisis Center
Education & Outreach
Hotline & Advocacy
P.O. Box 92
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 864-0555
Email: stoprape@sover.net
Interns develop an awareness of
strategies and curriculum through work on the hotline or in community
action, education and counseling, or legal advocacy through the
Courthouse projects.
- Women's
Small Business
Program
Mary Golek
346 Shelburne Road
Burlington, VT
05401
Phone: (802) 846-7358
Positions include tutoring, planning,
outreach, training, marketing, and accounting.
For more information on advocacy
organizations, visit the UVM Women's Center Web
site.
Potential
Faculty Sponsors (Faculty/Department/Area of Special
Interest)
- Lynne Bond (Psychology) --
women's social and cognitive development, family and parenting
- Sin Yee Chan (Philosophy) --
women's issues
- Kathy Fox
(Sociology) -- feminist methods, organizational sociology
- Cathleen Gleeson (College of
Medicine) -- medicine, psychology
- Melanie Gustafson (History) --
women in history, women and politics
- Lisa M. Holmes
(Political Science) -- women and law, constitutional law, and judicial
process
- Robbie Pfeufer Kahn (Sociology) --
feminist theory; women's health; violence against
women; cultural studies; sex, marriage, and the family
- Stephanie
Kaza (Environmental Studies) -- ecofeminism, environmental issues
that disproportionately affect women, women and nature
- Elaine McCrate (Economics) --
low-income women
- Beth Mintz (Sociology) --
domestic violence
- Julie Roberts (Communication
Sciences) -- communication analysis, language,
cross-cultural communication
- Robyn Warhol (English) -- women's
writing, feminist theories
- Nancy Welch (English) -- writing,
newsletters and publicity, reading/literacy programs
Note: This list is not
exhaustive. Please visit our Faculty
Web page for more information about potential sponsors.
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