Location: La DHH-OPH-Bureau of Family Health, Breastfeeding Program
Hours: 10 hours/week
Stipend: $3600 (300 hours at $12/hour)
Time: Internship begins September 2015
Background
The Louisiana Office of Public Health, Bureau of Family Health (BFH) is the recipient of the Title V Maternal and Child Block Grant funds and the Title X Family Planning Grant funds for the State of Louisiana. With these funds, the Bureau manages family planning services, pregnancy prevention, mortality surveillance (fetal, infant, child, and maternal), pregnancy and maternal child health educational initiatives as well as domestic violence prevention.
Main Activities
This internship will enable the student to gain valuable insights as he/she provides programmatic support to a state-wide breastfeeding initiative.
- Identify and assist breastfeeding stakeholders with creating profiles on a database
- Maintain/improve the database of breastfeeding stakeholders
- Prepare reports and present results to BFH staff
- Work with local coalitions and the state team to organize community breastfeeding training that will target hospital staff and community MCH/ breastfeeding stakeholders
- Assist with organizing a community networking event
- Communicate with breastfeeding stakeholders via phone and email
- Attend BFH related meetings, conference calls, etc.
- Other tasks as assigned
Required Skills/Qualities
- Organized
- Professional
- Highly independent worker and motivated
- Critical thinker
- Strong aptitude for written and oral communications
- Currently enrolled in or recently graduated from a MPH program
Please submit a cover letter and a resume with 3 references to:
Betsy Dancisak, Breastfeeding Program Coordinator
Betsy.Dancisak@la.gov, 504-568-3513
Application Deadline: August 28, 2015
