Overall Goal of internship At completion of this internship, the intern will gain an excellent understanding and knowledge of how UW Health provides a variety of health and wellness programs to employees/community-sponsored events. The intern will gain experience in behavior change facilitation including Health Risk Assessment, intervention, and reassessment, and will create promotional and marketing […]
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HPW Internship: Portage County-Health and Human Services
Overall Goal of Internship At completion of this internship, the intern will gain an excellent understanding and knowledge of how Portage County Health and Human Services provides a variety of health and wellness programs to employees/community-sponsored events. The intern will gain experience in behavior change facilitation including Health Risk Assessment, intervention, and reassessment, and will […]
More...HPW Internship: YMCA-Northern Lights
HPW Student Internship Experience – Brittany Richard 16′ While interning at the Northern Lights YMCA, I have been exposed to a variety of tasks and duties. Pertaining to office tasks, I have made numerous phone calls to individuals on waiting lists for chronic illness programs. I was also in contact with YMCA’s all across the […]
More...HPW Internship: Olmsted County Public Health Services
HPW Student Internship Perspective – Melissa Mady Interning at Olmsted County Public Health Services has given me the opportunity to experience everything that the public health department does. From taking what I learned in Epidemiology and getting to experience a pertussis (whopping cough) outbreak in the Rochester area which included calling cases and writing case […]
More...HPW Internship: Anytime Fitness-Plover
HPW Student Internship Perspective – Seth Dominick 16′ I was an intern at Anytime Fitness in Plover and Stevens Point. I had a ton of fun and learned so much about myself and my career path. I originally wanted to open up my own gym and start a franchise, I think that might still be […]
More...HPW Internship: Sarasota County Government
Overall Goal of Internship At completion of this internship, the intern will gain an excellent understanding and knowledge of how Sarasota County Government provides a variety of health and wellness programs to employees/community-sponsored events. The intern will gain experience in behavior change facilitation including Health Risk Assessment, intervention, and reassessment, and will create promotional and […]
More...HPW Internship: Aspirus-Wausau
HPW Student Internship Experience – Hillary Drake 16′ Interning at the Aspirus Wausau Hospital has been an amazing experience that I am very thankful for! While interning at the hospital, I had the opportunity to work in multiple areas of wellness, some of which included: community wellness, employee wellness, business health and cardiac rehabilitation. My […]
More...HPW Internship: Froedtert Health
Overall Goal of Internship At completion of this internship, the intern will gain an excellent understanding and knowledge of how Froedtert Health provides a variety of health and wellness programs to employees/community-sponsored events. The intern will gain experience in behavior change facilitation including Health Risk Assessment, intervention, and reassessment, and will create promotional and marketing […]
More...HPW Internship: Green Mountain at Fox Run-Weight Loss and Wellness Retreat
HPW Student Internship Perspective – Ashley Clark 16′ Interning within the fitness department at Green Mountain at Fox Run has been a very rewarding experience. As part of the fitness team I worked with group fitness instructors and other wellness professionals to help ensure the success of the fitness department within Green Mountain. I was […]
More...HPW Internship: Glenwood Springs, CO – Parks and Recreation
HPW Student Internship Experience – Ty Hennessy Spring 17′ Interning at the Glenwood Springs Recreation Center has been an amazing experience. In addition to working in the recreation management department of the center, I also had a lot of freedom when it came to birthing new programs for the center. Both of these positions really […]
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