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Internships are available with such local agencies as the Lacey Police Department, St. Peter Hospital, the Thurston County offices of the state Department of Social and Health Services; the Crisis Clinic; and, in Tacoma, the Pierce County Probation Office. Additional agencies cooperate with the University, and agency staff attempt to aid students in all possible ways. During the course of the study, students increase their knowledge of the social science approach to solving human problems and gain the intellectual skills, moral insight and humanistic concepts needed to succeed professionally. The curriculum also encourages students to develop the ethical and analytical thinking essential to professional life in social work, law, foreign service and teaching. Each student has to complete a minimum of 18 credits (which translates into 900 hours) of internships, spread out in three different placements. Their first one is usually 150 hrs (10 hrs/wk) the second one is 300 hrs (20hrs/wk) and the third one is 450 hrs (30 hrs/wk). Often, students try to get their last placement somewhere where they might continue with employment. There are several ways that students find their placements: 1) They hear of a placement from another student that sounds interesting to them, and they seek it out; 2) They read of the internship in our Resource book of Internships (also on the Web page), and go out to interview; 3) The Internship supervisor recognizes a training need in the student, and makes a suggestion to that student that they be placed in a specific internship. If you'd be interested in getting your agency into the Resource Book for possible interns, please: 1) write up an approximate or suggested job description; 2) include where they would be working (inside? in the field?), with whom (what is the population that they would be working, youth? single moms? battered kids?) and if there is any pay (as one can imagine, students pick the paying placements first). There are many students who are eligible for Federal and State Work Study. 3) Send this to: St. Martins University, Attn: Katia Shkurkin, 5300 Pacific Ave SE, Lacey, WA 98503‑1297; or fax to: (360) 459‑4124; or email to kshkurkin@stmartin.edu.
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