Intern - Child Protection Services (Summer)

Sdsoybean; Brookings (SD); On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Social Services / Child Protection Services in Brookings, SD is offering a Summer Intern position in Social Services. This full-time, 40-hour weekly role supports Family Services Specialists with cases involving child safety and maltreatment, including direct interventions and coordinating resources for affected families.

The internship runs May through August and requires enrollment as a college/university/technical institute student, with preference for juniors/seniors and

Qualifications

• Applicant must be enrolled as a part-time/full-time student at a college, university, or technical institute at the time they apply.
• By the start of the internship, the student should have completed one year (nine months) of their chosen program.

Responsibilities

• Assist Family Services Specialists with families whose children have been reported or identified as unsafe.
• Participate in assessments and interventions to address child safety in the home.
• Coordinate and facilitate family team meetings and support of foster/relative homes caring for maltreated children.

Skills

Student status

Education

Enrolled student in college/university/technical institute

Job description

Intern - Child Protection Services (Summer) - 37441

Brookings, SD | Social Services | Full-Time 40 Hours Weekly

20.82 - 20.82 US per hour

Description

Session:Summer (May - August)
Position Title:Intern - Child Protection Services Intern
Hiring Manager: Christin Krogman
Agency:Department of Social Services / Child Protection Services
Location: Brookings, SD
Minimum Salary: $20.82

Position Description:
This position’s primary purpose is to assist Family Services Specialists with families whose children have been reported or identified as being unsafe and who may be placed out of their parent’s home. These duties may include direct interventions with children and families through a wide range of services. Responsibilities may include receiving reports from the community regarding allegations of child maltreatment, assessments with families regarding allegations of child maltreatment, interventions with families to address change needed to secure child safety in their homes, coordinating and facilitating family team meetings recruitment and support of foster and relative homes caring for maltreated children, and the matching of resource families for children unable to return to their birth families.

Qualifications:
Applicant must be enrolled as a part-time/full-time student at a college, university, or technical institute at the time they apply. By the start of the internship, the student should have completed one year (nine months) of their chosen program.

All students are encouraged to apply, but preference may be given to applicants with a standing of junior/senior, South Dakota residents, and students of South Dakota institutions.