About the Partnerships in Aging Program:
The Partnerships in Aging Program (PiAP) is a campus-wide program located in the Office of the Provost. In collaboration with community organizations and groups, they nurture dialogue about the personal and societal meaning of having a long life and advance civic engagement as a way to bring about a new kind of aging. PiAP provides expertise and resources to UNC faculty, students, and community partners seeking to reframe the aging experience, together.
Graduate Intern: Solo Agers
About the Position:
PiAP is hiring a graduate level intern to support a new phase of an initiative called SOLO AGERS. Solo Agers are (currently) defined as:
• An individual or couple who does not have children (with a partner or not)
• An individual who never married or had children
• An individual who lives alone since the divorce or death or a partner
• An individual or couple whose children and/or other family live far away or are estranged
For more information, visit: https://partnershipsinaging.unc.edu/current-initiatives/#Solo
This internship offers a student the opportunity to interact with a six-person team of older adults in Orange County, a majority of whom are themselves Solo Agers. This team, called the Solo Ager Kickstarters, is responsible for planning and facilitating monthly Solo Aging Interest Group Meetings at the Seymour Center on the fourth Wednesday of the month from 4 to 5:30pm. The Interest Group meetings are an opportunity for community conversations, meet-ups, resource sharing and ongoing learning about topics such as health, legal, financial, housing, and social/emotional aspects of navigating older age while flying solo.
Tasks, skills, and personal qualities:
Attend in-person meetings and scribe and disseminate meeting notes for both the Kickstarter and Interest Group. Continue to review popular and academic literature to support ongoing learning and critique of the solo aging experience to share at meetings and post on Solo Aging webpage. Coordinate meeting schedules and logistics of hosting meetings and community-wide events. Field inquiries from or about solo agers. Identify local businesses and professionals who work with solo aging issues. Applicants should have a track record of community outreach and social justice work, careful listening, a clear writing style, a sense of humor and esprit de corps.
Details:
This 3-hour/week position will be mentored by community mentor, Carol Gunther-Mohr. Starting immediately, work can be accomplished remotely, with occasional in-person meetings and flexible hours. Compensation is $20/hour.
To Apply:
Submit a resume and cover letter to Cherie Rosemond, Director of the Partnerships in Aging Program at crosemon@med.unc.edu Priority consideration for submissions before Sept. 16th, 2022.
They strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ applicants.
Graduate Intern: HOPE North Carolina
About the Position:
HOPE North Carolina is a non-profit organization whose mission is to create inclusive communities where people of all ages and abilities engage with each other. HOPE recently received a multiyear grant from UNC Cares to utilize the collective impact model to bring cross-sector stakeholders together to increase the options for inclusive housing for people who experience disability. HOPE is hiring a graduate level intern to support its role as the backbone organization of this collective group of stakeholders.
For information on HOPE: www.hopenorthcarolina.org
For information on collective impact work: https://collectiveimpactforum.org/what-is-collective-impact/
This internship offers a student the opportunity to support work with a growing non-profit as they implement a grant involving cross-sector partners in the creation of an inclusive housing development. The intern would be involved in multiple areas of non-profit work including communications, fundraising, event planning and resource development. In addition, there will be opportunities to attend community meetings for ongoing learning about the health, legal, financial, housing, and social/emotional aspects of navigating later life, or navigating life with intellectual/developmental disabilities, or both. The student would also be working with a team of volunteers to plan and implement monthly social gatherings for people with and without intellectual and developmental disabilities on the third Saturday of every month.
Tasks, skills, and personal qualities:
- Attend virtual and in-person meetings, scribe and disseminate meeting notes for collective impact meetings.
- Coordinate meeting schedules and logistics of planning and hosting HOPE’s monthly community events.
- Continue to review popular and academic literature to support ongoing learning about the challenges faced by older people and people with lived experience of disability, especially as it relates to housing and community engagement.
- Assist with communications on social media and webpage.
- Assist with development of a robust volunteer program.
- Identify local businesses and professionals who work with people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and/or older adults.
- Applicants should have a track record of community outreach and social justice work, careful listening, a clear writing style and collaborative approach.
Details:
This 5-hour/week position will be mentored by HOPE’s Executive Director, Laura Wells, and with the chairs of HOPE’s working committees. Starting immediately, work can be accomplished remotely, with occasional in-person meetings and flexible hours. Compensation is $20/hour.
To Apply:
Submit a resume and cover letter to Cherie Rosemond, Director of the Partnerships in Aging Program at crosemon@med.unc.edu. Applications received by Sept. 16, 2022 will be given priority review.
They strongly encourage applications from people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ applicants.
Graduate or Undergraduate Intern: PiAP and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center
About the Partnerships in Aging Program:
The Partnerships in Aging Program (PiAP) is a campus-wide program at The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. In collaboration with organizations and institutions, they nurture dialogue about the personal and societal meaning of having a long life and advance civic engagement as a way to bring about a new kind of aging. PiAP provides expertise and resources to UNC faculty, students, and community partners seeking to reframe the aging experience, together.
About Their Partner Organization:
PiAP and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center have been collaborating over the last several years to develop aging-related initiatives in the Northside community and support student engagement with long-term residents.
About the Marian Cheek Jackson Center:
The Jackson Center is a hub of creative action dedicated to preserving the future of historically Black neighborhoods in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. Located in the heart of the Northside community, Center staff work in collaboration with Northside neighbors and friends to respect and to serve histories that, even as they are told, make new history out of Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights struggle, and desegregation. Today Northside, Pine Knolls and Tin Top are among the most racially, ethnically, and economically diverse neighborhoods in the region.
About the Position:
The partners seek an undergraduate or graduate intern who will support community engagement among students, older adults, and Northside community members by assisting with the administration and management of multiple programs including the Northside Residential Fellowship, the LINKing Generations in Northside program, and other developing aging initiatives (https://partnershipsinaging.unc.edu/current-initiatives/#LINK). Each of these initiatives centers the lived experience of older adults while mobilizing student engagement and everyday living to strengthen community ties and increase awareness of the history and present of Northside.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Communicate with students and team regularly regarding meetings, events, and program activities
- Send reminders and news regarding the community to team members and students
- Communicate with guest speakers and community mentors related to meetings
- Facilitate communication between fellows and Self-Help credit union related to any housing or lease related concerns
- Support meeting administration with agendas, minutes, and communication to members
Position Qualifications:
- An interest in community program development, oral histories, aging, housing justice, or community organizing, particularly in historically Black neighborhoods and communities
- Current UNC undergraduate (junior or senior) or graduate student
- Strong communication and organizational skills with attention to detail and follow-up
- Lived or professional experience building community in historically Black neighborhoods is not necessary, but highly valued
Position Details:
This 3-hour/week position will be mentored by a core team member from the Partnerships in Aging Program, Dr. Ryan Lavalley, who manages the associated programs. Although much of the work may be accomplished remotely, in-person meetings and events will be held at Marian Cheek Jackson Center and throughout the Northside Community. Compensation is $15-20/hour depending on student experience.
To Apply:
Submit a resume and cover letter to Ryan Lavalley at ryan_lavalley@med.unc.edu and Cherie Rosemond (PiAP Director) at crosemon@med.unc.edu. Priority will be given to applications received by Sept. 16, 2022.
They welcome all qualified applicants. And they strongly encourage applications from people who identify as Black or African American, indigenous, and other people of color, persons with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ applicants.