Resources that might help you find a site where you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career in Behavioral, Educational or Recreational Therapy --

Psychological & Brain Sciences Resources:

• Service-Learning & Field Experience Courses.
• Volunteer Opportunities.
• Explore over 100 Professional Societies of Interest to Psychology Majors to professionals with whom you can network.

Career Development Center Resources:

• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for careers in education, recreation, and therapy.
• Discover Local Community Service Employers.
• IU students have easy access to Guidestar which provides comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. Searches for 'Indiana therapy' and 'Indiana education' (once restricted to just Bloomington) both yielded over 100 results.

You can earn P493/P494 credit as a research assistant in the IU School of Education's Academic Well Check Program. Read about the AWCP Undergraduate Research Experience and contact the AWCP team for more information. If you are accepted to the AWCP team then contact Dr. Hoffman (hoffmanc [at] indiana.edu) to enroll for P493/P494 credit.

The Journey Fellowship Students Program is a campus-based program for students pursuing careers in or related to youth development. Students participate in retreats and experiences over a year to explore themselves and career options in the field of youth work.

Bradford Woods offers therapeutic recreation.

Bloomington Parks & Recreation offers inclusive recreation programs for individuals with disabilities or chronic health conditions and the elderly.

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Resources that might help you find a site where you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career in business -

Psychological & Brain Sciences Resources:

• Taking Psychology to Business is a career development course that explores the many connections between psychological science and business.

Career Development Center Resources:

• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for wide variety of business careers including accounting, advertising, apparel merchandising, banking, business, consulting, entrepreneurship, event planning, human factors, human resources, management and much more.

Kelley School of Business Resources for psychology & neuroscience majors:

Kelley School of Business offers Minors and Certificates to students in the College of Arts & Sciences.

If you enroll in one of the Kelley School of Business career development courses (X220 or X420), Kelley's Undergraduate Career Services Office will help you find an internship.

If you are accepted into the Liberal Arts Management Program (LAMP), you'll have access to a variety of career development resources.

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Resources that might help you find a site at which you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career in entertainment or media --

Career Development Center Resources:

• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for wide variety of entertainment & media careers including communications, entertainment, multimedia / web design, video, film and animation and more.
• IU stuents have free access to databases like Entertainment Employment Journal and Art Search.

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Resources that might help you find a site where you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career in government, public policy, or law --

Career Development Center Resources:

• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for wide variety of careers including environment, government, green careers, law, law enforcement, public administration, public health and more.
• IU students have easy access to Guidestar, comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. Entering 'Indiana legal' into the search bar, for example, yielded over 400 results.

Health Professions Pre-Law Center (HPPLC) Resources:

• Call 812.855.1873 to make an appointment to talk with a HPPLC law advisor to talk about your many options for gaining career-relevant experience!
• HPPLC has a really good internship page with links to Indiana Department of Corrections, Notre Dame Legal Aide Clinic and more.
• HPPLC archived a nice internship page from the IU Political Science department with links to Indiana State & House internships, INPIRG, The Washington Center, World Food Programme, AFSCME/UNCF Union Scholars Program, and more.

SPEA houses the IU in DC Programs which welcome students from all majors! Have you always dreamed of a career in government, public affairs, health care policy, or the non-profit sector? Can you think of nothing more exciting than spending a semester living, learning, and working in Washington, D.C., one of the country's most dynamic and exciting cities? Are you looking for programs that offer all this and more? Check out IU in DC for information about internships at The White House, The Wilderness Society, the Washington Leadership Program (WLP), and Health Policy Leadership Program (HPLP) Internships.

Career-relevant internship opportunities in Bloomington include agencies such as those listed below:

• IU Police Department
• Monroe County Probation Department
• Prosecutor's Office
• Court Administration.

• Indiana Legal Services
• Free Legal Aid Indiana
• Criminal Justice & Mediation Center

If you want to interview an attorney to learn more about their career and inquire about volunteer or internship positions for undergraduates you might want to try Legal Services Organization of Indiana

You might want to also keep an eye on the Criminal Justice Blogspot for announcements about opportunities.

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Resources that might help you find a site where you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career in medicine or an allied health field --

Psychological & Brain Sciences Resources:

• PBS offers the Volunteers in Medicine Field Experience during the Fall & Spring semesters. The program application is emailed to all psychology & neuroscience majors each semester.

Career Development Center Resources:

• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for wide variety of careers including dentistry, health, medicine, nursing, and more.
• IU students have easy access to Guidestar, comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. Entering 'Indiana health' into the search bar yielded many results.

Health Professions Pre-Law Center (HPPLC) Resources:

• Call 812.855.1873 to make an appointment to talk with a HPPLC pre-medical or allied health field advisor to talk about strategies for gaining career-relevant experience!
• HPPLC has a really good internship page with links to research experiences that are very appropriate for pre-med students.

Indiana Collegiate Emergency Medical Service (IC-EMS)

• The mission of IC-EMS is to educate and provide emergency medical care to the Indiana University Community. We provide event medical coverage for other student organizations here at IU, as well as local organizations in Bloomington. We provide free CPR and First Aid American Heart Association certification classes for our members, so no certifications are required to join. IC-EMS is also state certified through the Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS) as a non-transport basic life support (BLS) EMS, composed of emergency medical technicians (EMT) and individuals certified in CPR and First Aid.

IU Health Resources:

• Volunteering
• Job Shadowing, Internships, Follow-a-Physician, Clinicals

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Resources that might help you find a site where you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career in mental health --

Psychological & Brain Sciences Resources:

• Service-Learning & Field Experience Courses.
• Volunteer opportunities - look for organizations whose mission relates to mental health and/or look for organizations that help the population (kids, teens, families, women, veterans...) or issues (eating disorders, sex therapy, addictions...) that you hope to someday treat.
• Explore over 100 Professional Societies of Interest to Psychology Majors to professionals with whom you can network.

Career Development Center Resources:

• Discover Local Community Service Employers.
• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for careers in counseling or psychology and social sciences.
• IU students have easy access to Guidestar which provides comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations. A search for 'Indiana mental health' yielded over 400 results.

If you want to interview a practitioner to learn more about their career and inquire about volunteer or internship positions for undergraduates you might want to try:

• Find a Therapist - Psychology Today. Lists counselors and psychotherapists with a wide variety of licenses - LCSW's, LMFT's, LMHC's, LP's and so forth. Indianapolis has over 100 practitioners listed and you can narrow your search by issues such as anxiety, ADHD, career counseling, divorce, and so forth.
• American Psychological Association - Psychologist Locator.
• American Association of Marriage & Family Therapists - Therapist Locator.
• American Association of Sex Counselors, Educators & Therapists - Locate a counselor, educator or therapist.
• American Music Therapy Association - How to find a music therapist.
• Association for Art Therapy - Find an Art Therapist.
• Association for Play Therapy - Find Play Therapists.
• Explore over 100 Professional Societies of Interest to Psychology & Neuroscience Majors to find other therapist directories.

Databases with internship & career opportunities in this field. Be aware! The vast majority of listings for "psychology intern" are for students who are several years into a graduate (master's or doctoral level) program.

• Health Careers Network

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Resources that might help you find a site where you can volunteer, work, or intern if you are interested in a career with a non-profit organization --

Psychological & Brain Sciences Resources:

• Service-Learning & Field Experience Courses.
• Volunteer Opportunities - look here for non-profit organizations.

Career Development Center Resources:

• Discover Local Community Service Employers.
• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for careers in counseling or psychology and social sciences.
• IU students have easy access to Guidestar which provides comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations.

School of Public & Environmental Affairs Resources:

• IU is one of 70 universities or colleges in the U.S. that offers a certificate from the Non-Profit Leadership Alliance program - formerly American Humanics. The mission of this program is to prepare and certify future nonprofit professionals to work with America's youth and families. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance program that prepares students for nonprofit careers and collaborates with the local agencies of our National Nonprofit Partners in providing internship and placement opportunities.
• The IU in DC Programs welcome students from all majors! Have you always dreamed of a career in government, public affairs, health care policy, or the non-profit sector? Can you think of nothing more exciting than spending a semester living, learning, and working in Washington, D.C., one of the country's most dynamic and exciting cities? Are you looking for programs that offer all this and more? Check out IU in DC for information about internships at The White House, The Wilderness Society, the Washington Leadership Program (WLP), and Health Policy Leadership Program (HPLP) Internships.

Non-Profit Organization Internship/Job Databases:

• The Idealist - Internships!
• Nonprofit Career Network
• NonprofitJobs.org. Click on 'Search Job Postings' for a quick view of a variety of organizations & positions.

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PBS Resources:

• Research Opportunities. If you are interested in a summer or study abroad research experience, see especially Research Opportunities Nationwide and keep your eye on the Student Opportunities Blog.
• Teaching Internships.
• Explore over 100 Professional Societies of Interest to Psychology Majors to professionals with whom you can network.

Psychological & Brain Sciences Resources:

• Service-Learning & Field Experience Courses.
• Volunteer Opportunities - look here for non-profit organizations.

Career Development Center Resources:

• Discover Local Community Service Employers.
• The Career Interests Web Link Library includes websites for professional associations, career exploration, and job listings for careers in counseling or psychology and social sciences.
• IU students have easy access to Guidestar which provides comprehensive data on more than 1.5 million nonprofit organizations.

School of Public & Environmental Affairs Resources:

• IU is one of 70 universities or colleges in the U.S. that offers a certificate from the Non-Profit Leadership Alliance program - formerly American Humanics. The mission of this program is to prepare and certify future nonprofit professionals to work with America's youth and families. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance program that prepares students for nonprofit careers and collaborates with the local agencies of our National Nonprofit Partners in providing internship and placement opportunities.

Social Services Internship/Job Databases:

• SocialService.com
• Social Welfare Services

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