We’re looking for summer interns! Are you a high school student who wants to learn leadership skills, help your community, and collaborate on interesting projects with other teens? Apply to work with us this summer! New Castle United for Youth is a community-based youth prevention coalition that works to reduce substance use in our community through collaboration, education, positive messaging and supporting substance free activities. In past years, NCUFY summer interns have learned about public health and substance abuse prevention and applied that knowledge to projects like working with Northern Westchester Hospital on vaping messaging, planning fun substance free activities for teens and activities to encourage family connections. You can see some of their work here.

Summer interns will have the opportunity to work with our coalition coordinator Joe Durney on projects focused on wellness, healthy lifestyle choices, youth prevention, and other topics. They will also work with coalition members and other professionals on a variety of topics related to leadership skills and prevention work.

Because of the continued uncertainties surrounding in person work and gathering opportunities, we will once again offer a virtual internship, but hope to be able to bring interns together in person outdoors on one or more occasions if it is safe to do so.  Our summer internship work is divided into three sessions, to allow participants flexibility in their scheduling. Applicants may apply for one, two, or all three sessions. 

Each session will consist of six to eight group internship work sessions of approximately two hours.  Interns may need to complete some additional preparatory work or complete tasks outside of group meeting hours. Interns who successfully complete a session by putting in the necessary number of hours and completing assigned tasks will receive internship compensation of $120.  We can accommodate up to ten interns per session. 

Unfortunately, the summer Youth to Youth Eastern States Conference has been cancelled again for this year. We hope to be able to send students to this conference again in 2022. 

For more information and the applications, visit the summer opportunities page of our website:  http://newcastleunitedforyouth.org/summer-opportunities/.