- Learn about Trauma-Informed Care: gain an understanding of trauma informed practices and how they apply to providing support to survivors
- Survivor-Centered Advocacy: gain an understanding of advocacy that centers the survivor's dignity, autonomy, and well-being
- Develop skills in crisis intervention and safety planning
- Network with professionals in the social services and social work fields as well as other helping professions
Training Requirements: All interns begin by completing SASS’s 40 hour core advocacy training. This is a hybrid in-person and online program and can take up to 3-4 weeks, and it is followed by a shadowing stage. During shadowing, interns first listen to crisis line calls and then be shadowed while taking calls. While they are being shadowed, they receive feedback and support and then, when ready, they advance to taking calls on their own. Once fully trained on the crisis line, interns are offered the chance to be trained on emergency medical response advocacy and in-person advocacy services, which follows the same shadowing process. This training period can take a while as shadowing opportunities depend on survivor engagement with crisis line and other services.
Due to the length of our training process, we are unable to accommodate internships that are less than one school year. You do not have to be enrolled in an internship class or be receiving credit for your service.
Supervision: One-on-one supervision and group consultation in the form of debriefing advocacy related interactions.
If you have any additional questions regarding our internship program, please email our Assistant Director of Programs at programs@sass-lane.org
