Confirmed Internships - Summer and Fall 2021

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1	Internship Organization	Description	Website	Contact	Summer 2021	Fall 2021	Background Check?	Work Remotely?

2	Alum Rock Counseling Center	OMP is a school-based program that serves Ocala STEAM Academy in Alum Rock Union School District, which aims to empower youth ages 11-14 to improve their future success by avoiding high-risk behaviors such as crime, drug use, adolescent pregnancy and truancy. The Community Services Unit (CSU) Intern will provide mentoring and support to referred middle school students in the program alongside program staff. The Intern will be responsible for engagement and retention of youth participating in the program who are at-risk of not graduating from middle school.	http://www.alumrockcc.org/	cchun@alumrockcc.org	No	Yes	Yes (and TB test)	Yes (or hybrid)
3	Carash Law, LLP	INJURY LAW TRIAL ATTORNEYS (Auto Accidents, Motorcycle Accident, Big Rig Accidents, Wrongful Death, Premises Liability) Carash Law handles cases throughout Northern California and Southern California. Like the story of David and Goliath, the attorneys of Carash Law believe in aggressively and ethically fighting for our client's rights when an injustice has occurred, no matter how large the obstacles may be in our path.	https://www.carashinjurylaw.com/about-us	jjcarash@gmail.com	Yes	Yes	TBD	TBD
4	Center for Employment Opportunties	The Center for Employment Opportunities (CEO) provides employment services to people with recent criminal convictions. Our programs help participants successfully transition from incarceration to stable, productive lives. Across the United States, over 5,000 people participate in CEO each year, transitioning to employment that support themselves, their families, and their communities.	https://www.ceoworks.org/	fdaniels@ceoworks.org	No	Yes	No	Yes (hybrid)
5	Chinese Progressive Association	Founded in 1972, the Chinese Progressive Association educates, organizes and empowers the low income and working class immigrant Chinese community in San Francisco to build collective power with other oppressed communities to demand better living and working conditions and justice for all people.	https://cpasf.org/	https://www.resilientstrategiesllc.com/internships	Yes	Yes	Yes (if working with youth)	Yes (possible in person in fall)
6	ConXion	ConXión to Community (ConXión) is a community-based, non-profit 501c(3), which has successfully provided education, workforce, behavioral health and other social services to disconnected youth and adults since 1977. Our mission is “Opening doors to create new opportunities through culturally competent education, workforce development and social services so, collectively we can create a better community.”	https://conxion.org/
7	San Jose City Councilmember Mary Esparza (District 7)	The Office of Councilmember Maya Esparza is hiring an summer intern that will be paid to help with community engagement and to support our upcoming area activations.	https://www.sanjoseca.gov/your-government/departments-offices/city-council/district-7/maya-esparza-bio	Nick.Kaspar@sanjoseca.gov	Yes	No
8	Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY)	At FLY, we interrupt the pipeline to prison and support youth on their path to healthy, free, and productive lives. Founded in 2000, Fresh Lifelines for Youth (FLY) is an award-winning nonprofit serving Bay Area youth involved in the juvenile justice system and those at risk. We educate them about the law and their rights, give them positive mentors and role models, and support them to become leaders among their peers and in their communities. We also work with youth to help our juvenile justice systems become more just, humane, and equitable. As a result, FLY increases safety and decreases the costs and consequences of crime.	https://flyprogram.org/about/internships-2/	internships@flyprogram.org	Yes (2 Positions Available)	Yes	No (but must be over 21)	Yes
9	Health Access Foundation	Health Access is a nonprofit organization dedicated to achieving quality, affordable health care for all Californians, and a statewide coalition of member organizations representing seniors, children, people with disabilities, immigrants, communities of color, health care professionals, people of faith, labor, and working families. For over twenty years, Health Access has been a leader in the state’s health care reform movement.	https://health-access.org/	jtorres@health-access.org	No	Yes	No	Yes
10	Latina Contra Cancer	Latinas Contra Cancer is a leading service and advocacy organization for Latinos around issues of cancer. Our mission is to create an inclusive health care system for Latinos around issues of breast and other cancers.	www.latinascontracancer.org	darcie@latinascontracancer.org	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
11	Rising International	At Rising International we believe ending world poverty begins at home. We enable women in America who are surviving extreme poverty, gender-based violence, homelessness, and human trafficking to connect with other survivors around the globe. Through the power of entrepreneurship, they help each other to rise.	https://risinginternational.org/	sue@risinginternational.org	Yes (Spanish speaker preferred but not required)	Yes (Spanish speaker prefered but not required)	No (but must sign confidentiality agreement)	Yes
12	Rise Up (Living Wage Coalition)	The Living Wage Coalition is a low-wage worker advocacy organization fighting for economic justice . We are actively campaigning to reverse income inequality and wage disparity. We are advancing local campaigns and projects that can be models for policies to address the fundamental causes of income inequality. The Living Wage Coalition was initiated in 1998 by labor unions, community organizations and religious congregations to develop a movement led and democratically run by low-wage workers.	www.livingwage-sf.org	sflivingwage@riseup.net	Yes	Yes	No	Yes
13	Santa Clara Office of Reentry Services (1 position available per semester)	The Santa Clara County Faith Reentry Collaborative is a network of multi-faith religious institutions, community organizations, and volunteers established to provide transitional services to newly released inmates. We offer hope, compassion, forgiveness, trust, and accountability together with immediate and long-term support to individuals and their families as they return to the community from incarceration. “Due to COVID, we will be asking our intern to participate remotely, for the time being. Assignments will still include policy research, assisting on various minor projects and participating in internal and community meetings. As the student naturally develops a particular interest in a career path or program within Reentry, we will foster that interest by connecting the intern to appropriate staff members, so they can gain a better understanding of that staff member's role and their departments' contribution to Public Safety and Justice.”	https://www.sccgov.org/sites/reentry/Pages/Reentry-Services.aspx	eric.tran@ceo.sccgov.org or Chad.Martens@ceo.sccgov.org	Yes (1 Position Available)	Yes (1 Position Available)	No	Yes
14	Santa Clara Office of the Sherriff - Programs Unit (Elmwood Jail)	The Program Unit’s mission is to enhance the successful re‐integration of program participants into the community by providing evidence based classes, counseling, course study, personal skills, vocational training and after custody care components in a nurturing and encouraging environment.	https://www.sjsu.edu/justicestudies/docs/internship-enrollment-intern-advertisements/County%20of%20SC%20-Programs%20Unit.pdf	juan.pinales@shf.sccgov.org	Yes	TBD	Yes	No - Onsite; Interns must be willing to receive the Covid-19 vaccine
15	SIREN	SIREN’s mission is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees in Santa Clara County through community education and organizing, leadership development, policy advocacy and naturalization services. We believe that all people regardless of legal status or nationality are entitled to essential services, human dignity, basic rights and protections, and access to full participation in society.	www.siren-bayarea.org	HR@sirenimmigrantrights.org	Yes	Yes	No	No - Onsite only
16	Social Justice Collaborative	We are a nonprofit that represents immigrants and refugees in deportation proceedings. We keep families together by defending non-citizens from being deported.	www.socialjusticecollaborative.org	https://www.socialjusticecollaborative.org/get-involved	TBD	TBD	No	Yes
17	UNITE HERE Local 2	UNITE HERE Local 2 is a union of over 14,000 workers in the hospitality industries of San Francisco and San Mateo. Local 2 members work at many job sites – including hotels, restaurants, food services, laundries and San Francisco International Airport. We include room cleaners, cooks, bartenders, bellmen, food and beverage servers, bussers, and dishwashers.	https://www.unitehere2.org/	mstewart@unitehere2.org	No	TBD	No	Yes (hybrid)
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