Category: Youth, Collegiate and Research Internship Hosts

About EMPOWER: EMPOWER offers a four-year, non-degree college experience program for students with cognitive disabilities that incorporates functional academics, independent living, employment, social/leisure skills, and health/wellness skills in a public university setting with the goal of producing self-sufficient young adults. The University of Arkansas program is offered for students who demonstrate the ability to safely…Continue Reading EMPOWER at the University of Arkansas

Environmental Health and Safety is involved in the safety of the students, staff, faculty, and research on campus The office is always busy, and many of our safety areas overlap. We work together. We work with multiple offices around campus to improve safety for the campus community. Help us improve safety and keep each other safe!…Continue Reading University of Arkansas Office of Environmental Health & Safety

Mission statement: We strive to improve heart health in Northwest Arkansas through the deployment of innovative technologies and public health initiatives.  HealthTech Arkansas (HTA) drives clinical innovation for the ten largest hospitals and health systems in Arkansas, which is accomplished through accelerator programs and internal innovation programming. Our internal innovation programming is focused on helping…Continue Reading HealthTech Arkansas

Substance Education, Assessment and Recovery at the University of Arkansas To apply for an internship with SEAR, email sear@uark.edu with your interest and your resume/CV….Continue Reading SEAR

Agency Description Girls On The Run NWA Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based girl’s empowerment program that strives to reach girls at a critical stage, strengthening their confidence at a time when society begins to tell them they can’t. GOTR creatively integrates running into its curriculum to underscore the important connection between physical…Continue Reading Girls On The Run NWA

Agency Description Apple Seeds NWA Apple Seeds is a nonprofit whose mission is to inspire healthy living through garden-based education. Apple Seeds hosts students from all over Northwest Arkansas at its Teaching Farm and Kitchen in Fayetteville where they have an opportunity to connect with real food. Interns have the opportunity to be hands-on in…Continue Reading Apple Seeds

Agency Description Boys and Girls Club of Western Benton County Mostly supervision of after-school activities and weekend sports programs. The internship offers opportunities to design and teach health promotion topics appropriate to young age groups, as well as program planning and supervision of various weekend sports. Good if you are looking for late afternoon-evening or…Continue Reading Boys and Girls Club of Western Benton County

Agency Description Donald W. Reynolds Boys & Girls Club of Fayetteville A variety of opportunities for working with school-aged (6 to teens) kids in after-school programming: fitness and physical activity, nutrition, healthy lifestyles, mind/body/spirit classes etc. Offers a lot of opportunities for creating and offering courses of interest. Some work with families also possible. Mostly afternoon…Continue Reading Donald W. Reynolds Boys and Girls Club

Agency Description Fayetteville Public Education Foundation Fayetteville Public Education Foundation, a 501c3 agency established in 1992 by dedicated alumni, parents and community members to further enhance the exceptional educational experience for which Fayetteville Public Schools are known As a supporting foundation, we provide grants, gifts and outreach to Fayetteville Public Schools. The foundation has an…Continue Reading Fayetteville Public Education Foundation

Agency Description Rogers Public Education Foundation The Rogers Public Education Foundation promotes and enhances the quality of education in our community by collecting and distributing money for worthwhile academic programs — programs that would not normally be funded through conventional means. The foundation also recognizes and rewards the achievements of students and teachers in the…Continue Reading Rogers Public Education Foundation