Program Information Description updated: 11/3/2010
Program approved for: BASW [X ] MSW 1st Year [X] MSW 2nd Year [X ]
Parent Agency Name:
Parent Services Project, Inc.
Website:www.parentservices.org ...
Agency/Program Address:
79 Belvedere Street, Suite 101, San Rafael, CA 94901
Name of Internship Contact Person:
Jenny Ocon, MSW
Contact‘s E-mail:
jocon@parentservices.org
Contact’s Phone Number:
415-454-1870 ext.110
Other contact people:
Amy Griffin-Vieir, MSW
Phone number:
415-454-1870 x107
County Agency is in: Marin.
Program Description:
Parent Services Project is a national nonprofit founded in 1980. Our mission is to engage and strengthen families, working in partnership with educators and service providers to take leadership in assuring the well-being of all children, families, and communities. Our programs include:
• Vision and Voice: Parent Leadership Institute - which is a series of workshops to empower parents and increase families’ engagement in their children’s education and the community at large.
• Raising A Reader is a take home book bag program housed in early childhood programs, that encourages parents to support early literacy by sharing multicultural age-appropriate books with their children.
• Mentores Project is a Canal-based outreach program that reaches underserved families and links them to resources, other families and community networks, and promotes their involvement in civic engagement opportunities.
Clientele Served:
Low-income families; immigrant families; parents with children in early childhood programs, preschools, K-12 schools
Issues Program Addresses:
Family engagement in children's education; parent leadership development; family strengthening/family support services; community organizing
Intern Assignments:
- Vision & Voice - intern can do parent outreach, support/learn training techniques, support program evaluation efforts, develop case studies/video stories
- Raising A Reader - intern can lead storytimes at local preschools; help with ordering materials, support program evaluation efforts, lead parent workshops on early literacy, support promotores to reach spanish speaking day care providers
- Mentores Project - intern can get experience working with individual families helping them to identify and access resources; can support outreach efforts for community events; can be involved in community organizing efforts; can support program evaluation efforts; can identify community resources and update status
Intern Training & Educational Opportunities: Agency orientation; training in our parent engagement and leadership curriculum; training in our Raising A Reader curriculum; opportunities to lead parent training with support and feedback; opportunities to attend professional development seminars with program staff - focused on working with families in educational or community-based settings.
Intern Benefits: (Include stipend, conferences, car, food, etc.)mileage reimbursement for intern-specific work assignments that require driving; some opportunities to attend conferences
Other Special Placement Procedures or Requirements (Including Dates of Internship, Special Application Forms and Deadlines):Interview prior to placement