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Steans Center Student Internship: Centro Romero
DEADLINE: April 18, 2008
The Steans Center provides a $4000 stipend for a full-time ten-week internship for an undergraduate student to work at one of the following organization:
Centro Romero is a community-based organization that serves the refugee immigrant population on the northeast side of Chicago through adult education, women's empowerment projects, legal assistance, and youth learning and leadership development programs as well as special projects such as Community organizing and HIV/AIDS Outreach and Education. Centro Romero’s long-term organizational goal is to bridge a disenfranchised community of Latino immigrants and refugees into mainstream American society as well as improving their opportunity for upward social mobility. Centro Romero’s Latin American Legal Assistance Services Program (LALAS) provides direct representation, education and advocacy services to a primarily lower-income, Spanish-speaking immigrant community. By assisting persons in attaining lawful permanent residency and United States citizenship, the LALAS Program literally and directly enhances the person, the family, and the American community at large. Centro Romero is a Board of Immigration Appeals accredited agency.
The project seeks to place an undergraduate student with demonstrated interest in immigration or public interest work. Fluency in Spanish is preferred. During the course of the internship, the undergraduate student will have the opportunity to assist immigrants and refugees in a legal environment. The work may involve contacting clients, observing and participating in client interviews, drafting letters or client interview summaries, gathering documents, conducting factual research into conditions in the home countries of clients, providing translation and interpretation and assisting with application forms and participating in naturalization workshops and responding to other agency needs.
The student will work under the supervision of a law student, an on-site supervisor and receive additional training and support from DePaul College of Law faculty.
Requirements of the Internship
In addition to the work assigned by the agency supervisor, a student awarded a stipend will maintain a weekly journal providing a summary of the work done as well as reflection on interpersonal, professional and global issues in providing services to low-income immigrants and refugees.
A student awarded a stipend will participate in additional orientation and training with DePaul College of Law faculty and law student.
At the end of the project the student will participate in a final evaluation or exit interview with the agency staff.
The student will also provide Clinic faculty with an evaluation of the internship and a final report on the projects worked on during the course of the internship.
Application Process
Students interested in applying for the summer internship program should submit a cover letter, resume, and statement of interest (no more than one page) to Prof. Sioban Albiol, Asylum and Immigration Clinic, DePaul Legal Clinic, 25 E. Jackson, Room 1050-O’Malley, Chicago, IL 60604 or at salbiol@depaul.edu.
Applicants will be forwarded to the appropriate agency who will interview applicants and make a final selection. Applicants should indicate foreign-language ability.
The Steans Center provides a $4000 stipend for a full-time ten-week internship for an undergraduate student to work at one of the following organization:
Centro Romero is a community-based organization that serves the refugee immigrant population on the northeast side of Chicago through adult education, women's empowerment projects, legal assistance, and youth learning and leadership development programs as well as special projects such as Community organizing and HIV/AIDS Outreach and Education. Centro Romero’s long-term organizational goal is to bridge a disenfranchised community of Latino immigrants and refugees into mainstream American society as well as improving their opportunity for upward social mobility. Centro Romero’s Latin American Legal Assistance Services Program (LALAS) provides direct representation, education and advocacy services to a primarily lower-income, Spanish-speaking immigrant community. By assisting persons in attaining lawful permanent residency and United States citizenship, the LALAS Program literally and directly enhances the person, the family, and the American community at large. Centro Romero is a Board of Immigration Appeals accredited agency.
The project seeks to place an undergraduate student with demonstrated interest in immigration or public interest work. Fluency in Spanish is preferred. During the course of the internship, the undergraduate student will have the opportunity to assist immigrants and refugees in a legal environment. The work may involve contacting clients, observing and participating in client interviews, drafting letters or client interview summaries, gathering documents, conducting factual research into conditions in the home countries of clients, providing translation and interpretation and assisting with application forms and participating in naturalization workshops and responding to other agency needs.
The student will work under the supervision of a law student, an on-site supervisor and receive additional training and support from DePaul College of Law faculty.
Requirements of the Internship
In addition to the work assigned by the agency supervisor, a student awarded a stipend will maintain a weekly journal providing a summary of the work done as well as reflection on interpersonal, professional and global issues in providing services to low-income immigrants and refugees.
A student awarded a stipend will participate in additional orientation and training with DePaul College of Law faculty and law student.
At the end of the project the student will participate in a final evaluation or exit interview with the agency staff.
The student will also provide Clinic faculty with an evaluation of the internship and a final report on the projects worked on during the course of the internship.
Application Process
Students interested in applying for the summer internship program should submit a cover letter, resume, and statement of interest (no more than one page) to Prof. Sioban Albiol, Asylum and Immigration Clinic, DePaul Legal Clinic, 25 E. Jackson, Room 1050-O’Malley, Chicago, IL 60604 or at salbiol@depaul.edu.
Applicants will be forwarded to the appropriate agency who will interview applicants and make a final selection. Applicants should indicate foreign-language ability.