Spring 2025: Women’s Resilience Center Intern (Unpaid)

The Women’s Resilience Center (WRC) is a safe, collaborative space where the diverse needs of all women+ are respected and where they can seek, share, and obtain information about their rights and their inherent potential for safety, health, education, economic wellbeing, and power. It is a responsive, creative space that engages women+ as co-creators and encourages expression, enhanced wellbeing, and community connectedness. (When we use the term women+, this includes women of all ages, all abilities, diverse ethnic and religious affiliation and diverse sexual orientation and gender identities.)

SCOPE OF WOMEN’S RESILIENCE CENTER INTERN WORK: In this internship, students will have the opportunity to contribute to the WRC through community engagement and outreach as well as by supporting the facilitation of programming. 

RESPONSIBILITIES: Based on intern skills and experience, responsibilities may include a combination of program support, administrative/data support, and direct service:

• Support with outreach to women+ in the IRC community about WRC programs.

• Co-facilitate orientations to new WRC members.

• Co–facilitate wellness workshops and presentations.

• Support our ‘Safe Spaces’ work to make the WRC a more inclusive place for women+.

• Collaborate with interns, staff, other departments at IRC, and community partners.

• Facilitateinternal referrals to other IRC programs.

• Provide WRC members information about community resources.

• Contribute to data monitoring and evaluation of WRC programs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

• Intern will have the opportunity to enhance their facilitation skills.

• Intern will expand their experience providing healing centered and culturally humble services.

• Intern will participate inweekly Safety & Wellness intern group supervisionto enhance collaborative learning.