Internships and Trainee Positions
Issue Dated March 29 , 2002
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The National Mental Health Association, a nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness, seeks undergraduate and graduate students for its Internship Program. The program is designed to provide a unique opportunity for students to gain real-world work experience relevant to their academic and career goals. Internships are available in mental health prevention, communications, public education, fundraising, research, marketing, administration finance, adult mental health services, library science, and the Safe Schools and Healthy Students Action Center. Send a resume to NMHA/JDL, 1021 Prince Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; fax: (703) 684-5968; or email: [email protected] For more details and to apply online, see our website: www.nmha.org.
The Population Fellows Programs offer 2-year professional fellowships to individuals with graduate degrees in population, reproductive health, environment, and development-related areas. These fellowships involve providing technical assistance to international agencies, local NGOs and government organizations in the developing world, and are not traditional research fellowships. There are 2 types of fellowships are available. POPULATION FELLOWS are placed with organizations working to improve family planning and reproductive health programs in the developing world. POPULATION-ENVIRONMENT FELLOWS work on projects that combine assistance for threatened environments with attention to the population dynamics and reproductive health needs of the communities living within them. REQUIRES: U.S. citizenship or permanent residency; and expertise in reproductive health program design, implementation and evaluation. (Population-Environment applicants must also have expertise in areas such as environmental health, sustainable agriculture, land-use planning or protected areas management). Application deadlines are April 1 and November 1 each year. The Programs have a variety of fellowships available at any given time. Accepted applicants are offered scopes of work for consideration when the Programs identify a match between their skills and the requirements of an available position. Fellows receive a professional-level stipend and benefits. Contact: The Population Fellows Programs, University of Michigan, 1214 South University, 2nd Floor, Ann Arbor, MI 48104-2548; phone: (734) 763-9456; fax: (734) 647- 0643; or email: (Pop): [email protected] or (Pop-Env): [email protected]