Family Services Intern-Sacramento Fall 2024

ORGANIZATION SUMMARY:World Relief is a global Christian humanitarian organization that is fighting for change that lasts, right here in the U.S. and across the globe. We bring sustainable solutions to the world’s greatest problems – disasters, extreme poverty, violence, oppression, and mass displacement. The organization is approximately 75 years old and has worked in over 100 countries around the world since its founding.  In the United States, we come alongside local churches, community organizations and hundreds of individual volunteers to support newly arriving refugee and other immigrant families. Today, we are proud to partner with over 6,000 local churches, and 95,000 volunteers globally to bring hope, healing and transformation to the most vulnerable.
POSITION SUMMARY:Are you a person of compassion? An advocate for justice? Someone who stands up for the rights of the vulnerable and speaks out for the marginalized, the exploited and the forgotten?  Do you believe in our calling as Christians to welcome the least of these and love our neighbor?
If you answered ‘yes’, to any of the above, World Relief, and millions of people around the world need you.
Family Services empowers immigrant families by providing comprehensive educational support services for healthy integration. These programs are tailored for preliterate Afghan women and men, and include the 9-month Refugee Women’s Integration Groups, teaching ESL and in-depth cultural orientation topics with local experts; 12-week Afghan Driving Permit Preparation course; 8-week Young Adult Summer Group; 12-week Men’s integration classes, 6-month care group classes for refugee women focusing on self-care and trauma healing through art, and health and wellness navigation support for all new arrivals. Internships within this department would support studies in Social Work, Public Health, TESOL, Sociology, and Adult Education with opportunities to carry a case load of clients, learn the public benefits systems, work with other supporting non-profits to educate Sacramento’s newest arrivals, plan and facilitate classes with the support of experienced staff members.  

Role & Responsibilities

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ESL Materials Design Intern   
• Assist the ELI Program Coordinator in preparing effective lessons for students with different learning styles articulating the lessons on 4 skill areas: listening, speaking, reading, and writing 
• Assist the ESL team in creating materials for preliterate adult refugees. Update and print existing materials 
• Assist with designing new materials 
• Help organize online video resources for better access by client 
• Update content videos 
• Assist with creating short how-to videos for clients  
• Help prepare and distribute educational materials  Other duties as assigned   
Data & Admin Intern   
• Supports the Education Supervisor with ensuring accurate and up-to-date client data and documents in client’s cases files to meet grantor requirements 
• Organize client information into client case files with all required data and documents 
• Create and populate documents using mail merge (training provided) 
• Track down any missing data by searching database and/or contacting caseworkers and clients 
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date client case files 
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date Dynamics database files on clients and presenters 
• Assist with registration and enrollment with new clients 
• Other duties as assigned   
Enrollment & ESL Assignment Intern 
• Assist Education team in preparing enrollment and assessment materials 
• Visit client homes with Education team to conduct and track ESL assessments  Input and organize client data during enrollments 
• Other duties as assigned   
Health System Intern [Wellness Navigator] 
• Works with the Family Services department to assist newly arrived refugees to learn to navigate the local health system and to gain increased essential health literacy 
• Conduct individual client need assessments to identify areas of health navigation and education that are needed (training provided) 
• Collaborate with clients to develop and implement individual service plans 
• Provide individual health coaching on a variety of topics, including, but not limited to, preventative care, navigating the health system and utilizing a pharmacy 
• Accompany clients to health appointments to provide in person coaching to help them learn to navigate doctors’ appointments independently 
• Provide referrals to community partners, according to needs identified in individual service plans 
• Translate notices and flyers related to public health, both f