[humanser] Internships?

[Dr. Mary Chappell]

Christina,
I trust that you are going to get a lot of feedback on this question you have posted. Most, if not all of us have had or are  having our first time experience with training in the workplace. I am looking forward to what replies come through on this Labor Day weekend. I want to invite you to take part in our newly developing Education and Development committee conference call that will take place on September 20. Part of our vision for this new committee is to address and explore these questions for those of us entering training or working in the helping professions. Please stay tuned for information about that call and, if you feel like you may get something out of it, join our conversation.

It sounds like you have taken the right first steps in the internship process and identified an experience that is of interest to you and will help you in the enhancement of skill sets with populations that you are interested in working with. Be certain that you check out the website so that when you get the opportunity to do the inperson interview and any site visits, you will have a recognition of names, roles, the services that are provided and those types of cursory aspects of the site. Develop questions that will speak to your training interest while there. Identify your own knowledge points that are relevant to that work.
Bring your questions about tasks and any adaptive techniques, emotional and intellectual preparedness back to the list.
Good luck-- labor under correct knowledge, in your pursuit.
Best,
Mary Tatum Chappell, Psy. D.
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From: humanser [mailto:humanser-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Christina Moore via humanser
Sent: Saturday, September 05, 2015 8:17 AM
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Cc: Christina Moore
Subject: [humanser] Internships?

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all doing well on this lovely Saturday morning. :) I am unsure if I introduced myself here so here goes before I get into the main topic of this post.
My name is Christina and I am a senior at a small christian liberal arts college in NY. I am majoring in Psychology with a track in pre-therapy, I have a minor in communications completed and am looking to add a minor in Data Science so long as the courses I have taken that would fulfill that requirement would be able to even though they were for my major/general credit. Some of you may have met me at NFB during the Human Services devision meeting (which was quite a wonderful experience).

Now, to the main topic of this post:
Since I am a senior, part of my graduation requirements are to do an internship either during the semester or during a summer for credit. I am wondering if anyone here could share there experiences with me about how they found internships, contacted the organizations, responses to having a visual disability and any other information you may find useful/are willing to share would be great.
I am looking into an opportunity currently that would be in a girl’s home so if anyone has experience with that sort of environment that would be great. The staff at the organization have received my application (allowing me to submit it electronically instead of the standard snail mail), letters from my references, interviewed me (a short interview asking me why I am interested in the position Etc.) and I am planning to schedule for the more comprehensive interview next week. If I make it past the comprehensive interview, I will then visit their location and see what the home is like, interact with residents and staff and a final decision will be made after a couple of days.
I am sorry for the length of this post but I wanted to give as much explanation as possible so that all of you could better understand my question.
Thanks for reading and responding.
Christina
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