Intern - Child Protection Services (Summer)

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

Job summary

South Dakota Department of Social Services in Watertown is offering a Summer internship for the Child Protection Services program. The intern will assist Family Services Specialists with safety assessments, interventions, and coordinating foster care resources to protect children in their homes.

Qualifications include current enrollment as a part-time or full-time student, completion of at least one year of study by May start, with preference for South Dakota residents and students from SD

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 safety assessments and direct interventions to protect children.
• Coordinate and facilitate family team meetings, recruitment and support of foster/relative homes, and matching resource families for children unable to return to their birth families.

Education

Enrollment as student (college/university/technical institute)

Job description

Intern - Child Protection Services (Summer) - 37444

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

20.84 - 20.84 US per hour

Posted a week ago | Apply before January 27, 2027

Description

Session: Summer (May - August)
Position Title:Intern - Child Protection Services (Summer)
Hiring Manager:Jenna Polchow
Agency:Department of Social Services
Location: Watertown
Minimum Salary: 20.84

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

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.