Welcome House
Site Description
The Welcome House is a women's and children's temporary shelter which serves the homeless population of Northern Kentucky in
an effort to help them regain stability after becoming homeless. Families pay rent based on their income, and are provided
with meals and items to fulfill basic needs. With the understanding that these families have different needs according to
their situation, Welcome House provides a number of programs with which to help them, including emergency assistance, basic
agency training, a referral program, and a case management program designed to help the women attain an income and find
permanent housing, emergency assistance. On a weekly basis, the staff gives seminars on varied topics including depression,
employment, stress management, etc. The UHP intern develops seminars and weekly programs as well as providing additional
organization assistance as needed.
Job Description
The intern will...
- • Gain an appreciation for the causes of homelessness and the challenges homeless women face.
- • Acquire an understanding of the difficulties the underserved population face in accessing healthcare,
and show resources available to the underserved.
- • Improve their interviewing and assessment skills through performing family intake when people begin
at the shelter.
- • Learn the day to day operations of the shelter by shadowing shelter staff.
- • Generally shadow the advocate on duty or work independently on research/prepare for activities with the
residents and children.
- • Be involved in any health-related issues that our residents face during staff meetings or with direct
assistance during the resident referral process and follow-up.
- • Interview the women to see what health issues they are interested having presentations on and then
research these topics.
- • Lead weekly educational groups for residents and/or children with health-related topics.
- • Assist with activities for the children, such as craft night, to allow parents time to complete tasks
or relieve stress.
- • Provide childcare to give mothers the opportunity to look for employment opportunities and follow through
on other necessary tasks.
- • Organize and attend occasional field trips with the children.
- • Work a flexible schedule of daytime and evening hours for a total of 20-30 hours per week including
roughly 3 evenings/week (4:30pm - 10pm) and during the day 2 days a week.
- • Hours will be set based on the needs of the shelter and activities/meetings already scheduled, however,
educational groups and activities with children will usually need to be done in the evening hours.
- • Some vacation time is allowed.
Intern Experience Summary
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