Educational Internships

Intern with Parents Helping Parents

Complete your academic internship with Parents Helping Parents and make a difference in the world of children and parents. Each intern that participates in the program will take with them a depth of understanding about the many stressors impacting today’s parents. You will also gain experience in virtual support groups and support lines.

About Our Internship Program

Parents Helping Parents (PHP) mission is to empower parents to nurture children and build stronger families. PHP programs address the 5 protective factors linked to lower incidence of child abuse and neglect: Parental Resilience, Social Connections, Concrete Support, Knowledge of Parenting and Child Development, and understanding of Social Emotional Learning. PHP uses an evidence-based model of peer-to-peer interventions that results in long term improvement in empowerment, self-esteem, and self-advocacy-assertiveness of program participants.

PHP accepts interns on a rolling basis and, at any given time, between 5 and 10 interns will be placed at PHP.  Interns are responsible for completing a minimum of 4 stress line shifts per week, facilitating at least one weekly support group, AND presenting a topic training for all PHP volunteers.  PHP staff provide administrative support, weekly individual and group supervision, topic training, and manage relationships with the partnering academic institutions.

What Our Past Interns Are Saying...

  • "I thoroughly enjoyed my time at PHP. It gave me a lot more confidence in myself and my ability to work in a team. It was extremely helpful to gain real-life experience in the workforce as someone who is still in college!"

    –Brooke