These 6 practicum are available for summer (with possible run over into fall) 2014. All interns will be required to work a total of 300 hours. These practicums are restricted to Tulane students; graduate students will be given preference.
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Broad Community Connections (BCC) is a non-profit, Main Street organization whose mission is to revitalize Broad Street from Tulane Avenue to Bayou Road as a vibrant commercial corridor, bringing together the surrounding neighborhoods and promoting their economic, residential, and cultural development.
Responsibilities and Activities:
- Help develop healthy eating and active living programs at the ReFresh Project for underserved communities
- Help provide health-related services and improve health outcomes including the development of a Community Health Worker program.
- Work with the ReFresh NOLA Coalition to improving the health and economic well-being of neighborhoods surrounding Broad Street
Summer Food Provider Report Card
Kids Rethink New Orleans Schools (Rethink) is a youth leadership development program that supports students in “rethinking” their public school experience and leading student-driven policy reforms. The School Food Report Card (SFRC), a youth based participatory action research (YPAR) project that puts youth at the forefront of evaluating health and wellness factors in their school.
Responsibilities and Activities:
- Collaborate with Rethinkers, Rethink staff and Share Our Strength to design a research process for evaluating summer food service providers
- Work with Rethinkers during Rethink summer program to practice research skills (surveying, interview skills, etc.)
- Coordinate data collection process
- Accompany Rethinkers to summer camp sites for data collection
- Perform data entry tasks to prepare data for analysis
Blueprint for Safety Project Internship
The New Orleans Health Department’s Blueprint for SafetyProject is a singular philosophically based, model policy that coordinates each criminal justice agency’s response to domestic violence; including, 911, Law Enforcement, the Sheriff’s Department, Prosecution & District Attorney Victim Advocates, Probation & Parole, Court Administration and the New Orleans Family Justice Center. The internship will primarily focus on two aspects of the Project, addressing impact disparities in the development of Blueprint policies and analyzing domestic violence arrests and case dispositions locally and nationally. The intern is expected to commit 15-20 hours per week.
Responsibilities and Activities:
- Work with local advocates to engage the community of African-American women arrested for domestic violence
- Processing and analyzing domestic violence case information
- Input data and produce statistical reports/develop research papers
- Prepare quarterly aggregate public reports and develop recommendations
- Co-facilitate focus groups with key stakeholders
- Develop strategies to successfully engage a vulnerable population in partnership toward policy development
- Attend meetings, conduct research, prepare notes, and draft memos and policy reports
Veggie Power Dollar Program Internship
Sankofa CDC is working to revitalize New Orleans’ Ninth Ward and advance opportunities in the areas of urban revitalization, education, health, and economic development. Through its Mobile Market and Gardens programs, the organization is working to create access to healthy food and decrease the disproportionately high health risks existing within this community. An intern is needed to plan, monitor and manage this incentive program whose main goal is to increase the consumption of fruits and vegetables among low income seniors and families with children by increasing their purchasing power. Intern must be available on most Saturdays to work at the Mobile Market.
Responsibilities and Activities:
- Manage application process of participants
- Strategize methods of conducting outreach to seniors to ensure understanding
- Collect data and track seniors and low-income families that participate
- Synthesize data and construct a report for further program development
- Facilitate all activities, focus groups, forums, and exercised including setting up the market & maintaining an organized space
- Attend neighborhood meetings with the Programs Manager to assess community needs
- Organize Sankofa CDC outreach table at community events, forums, and discussions
Healthy Pantry Project Internship
The Second Harvest program partners with community agencies to offer food-based nutrition education courses led by a trained staff member and volunteer culinary and nutrition professionals. The goal is to address the increasing need for nutrition education among families through high-quality cooking courses that build long-term self-sufficiency skills. The project aims to expand the Cooking Matters nutrition education program to target local food pantries to determine the types of foods currently offered and the support needed to improve the availability of healthy food.
Responsibilities and Activities:
- Develop partnerships with local pantries in Orleans and Jefferson Parishes to offer tools and services for engaging and empowering clients to make healthier food choices.
- Develop demonstrations to help increase the use of uncommonly chosen pantry items and educate clients on how to use these foods in meal preparation.
- Pantry demos, tastings, modification of foods in courses to reflect pantry foods
- Develop tools and services to help clients move “from hunger to health,” using food banks infrastructure to transform communities through good nutrition
- Develop tools to measure impact
Village de L’Est Community Assessment Project Internship
Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association (VAYLA) empowers youth and families through supportive services and organizing for cultural enrichment and positive social change by improving education equity, health access, and civic engagement.
Responsibilities and Activities:
- Train VAYLA youth members on community assessment design and implementation methods
- Design a survey tool to conduct community assessment collection demographic information and economic, educational and health conditions of young people in Village de L’Est between the ages of 12-24
- Implement tool and provide support to VAYLA Equity team for incorporating survey findings into organizing strategies and campaign outreach tools
