Interneships

SELECTED INTERNSHIP/FIELD EXPERIENCE SITES

There are well over 200 agency sites approved for field experience placement. The 597-Field Experience course and accompanying 597L-Field Experience Laboratory total 3 units. There are typically 30-35 students enrolled in field experience each term. Students spend one hour per week in a regular classroom setting in addition to the 90 hours they work at an approved agency site.

Associated Students Campus Children's Ctr	Daycare for children of SDSU faculty and students.
Assn. for Retarded Citizens	Provide parent training and supportive services to meet the needs of developmentally disabled parents; to assist parents in maintaining custody of their children.
Benchley Weinberger Elementary School	Assist teachers of school-aged children.
California Children Service	Provide individual and family psychological services; support and adjustment to a child's medical condition.
Child Care Centers	Over 100 approved child care center sites located throughout San Diego County with widely varying experiences and exposure possible.
Childcare Resource Center	Assist the County in accessing services for children and families and getting information on child care and parenting.
Childcare Resource Service	Focus on early intervention respite program to enhance the capacity of families to meet the special needs of infants and toddlers.
Children Having Children	Focus on teen pregnancy/prevention.
Children's Advocacy Institute	Assist in Child Advocacy clinic; child health and safety projects.
Children's Home Society	Provide secure and loving learning environment for children 0-11 who are certified at risk of abuse or neglect. Licensed family child care home; development of parenting skills. Priority to low income families.
Children's Hospital: Parent Support Group Child Life Dept.	Provide support and education to parents of Neonatal intensive care unit babies, birth to 6 months. Assist children to cope with stress and anxiety of hospitalization.
Children's World	Work with curriculum and programming for infant/toddlers, preschool.
City of San Diego	Provide social services to County via numerous departments and programs.
College Park Preschool	Aid teachers in 3 & 4 yr old classes.
Compassionate Friends	Extend support to parents who have lost a child.
CRASH Options	Assist with treatment for pregnant or parenting women with drug and alcohol problems (Parent-Child Habilitative-Rehabilitative Lab Worker).
Crisis House	Provides food, clothing, and shelter for troubled families.
D.A.R.E.	Work with drug abuse prevention program for elementary school-aged children.
Down's Syndrome Assn. of San Diego	Provide support, encouragement, information to families of children with Down's Syndrome.
ECS South Bay Head Start	Aid teachers for preschool children and low-income families.
Empty Cradle	Assist families through normal grieving process. Loss through miscarriage, stillbirth or infant death.
Family Stress Ctr.	Emphasize child abuse prevention and treatment as a non-profit agency.
Grandparents Raising Grandchildren	Provide support to grandparents raising grandchildren from abusive homes.
Happy Child, Inc.	Helps parents and their children in a substance abuse prevention project.
Hydrocephalus Parent Support Group	Support and information to families of a hydrocephalic child or adult.
June Burnett Institute	Help communities identify and solve neighborhood problems and improve conditions for children.
Los Ninos Preschool	Work in infant/toddler programs.
Maxwell & Muriel Gluck Child Care Ctr.	Serve preschool children in a state-of-the-art child care facility.
Neighborhood House	Extends comprehensive health and human care services to children and families with a special focus on at-risk populations and Head Start.
Polinsky Children's Ctr.	Takes care of children who are children physically, sexually and/or emotionally abused by providing an emergency shelter, numerous programs and related social and psychological services.
P.R.I.D.E.	Train parents with developmental disabilities in the care and management of their children.
Public Defenders: Juvenile Delinquency	Find alternative placements for juveniles for proper rehabilitation/treatment.
Regional Center	Serve people with developmental disabilities; focus on high risk infants birth to 3 years with aim of preventing or ameliorating disabilities.
Sam and Rose Stein Education Center	Offers structured after-school programs for children and teens with behavior problems.
San Diego Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting Program	Improve perinatal outcomes; maximize education; enhance parenting skills.
SD County Dept of Social Services	Receive and investigate cases of child abuse or neglect.
San Diego Developmental Services, Inc.	Extend comprehensive services for high risk infants and their families (Outreach and Early Intervention Project).
San Diego Humane Society & S.P.C.A.	Work with educational programs to help children of all ages learn animal care and safety.
San Diego Youth Involvement, Inc.	Serve special needs of youth: runaways, homeless, delinquency prevention and diversion, teen pregnancy, battered women, and child abuse victims.
SAY, San Diego	Provide a variety of extended day care and child care programs.
St. Vincent de Paul Village	Provides comprehensive services in a wide variety of children's services program.
Southeast Asian Developmental Disabilities Program	Provide outreach for prevention/intervention maternal and child health
Strongly Oriented for Action	Child care, protection, family support to low-income families.
UCSD Medical Ctr	Offer special care follow-up for premature infants in an organized program.
Voices for Children	Serve as Court Appointed special advocates/voices for children in turmoil.
WIC (Women, Infants and Children)	Nutrition education and supplemental food to low income women and children 0-5 years.
YMCA Childcare Resource Service	Provide child care referrals by zip codes to parents for specific child care needs in licensed facilities.
YMCA	Work with various youth programs located throughout the County.