COMMUNICATOR

September 1, 1999
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LPC Consulting Associates
TUPE Project
Graduate Student Internship Description

LPC Consulting Associates is seeking Graduate and Undergraduate Senior students to assist with data collection for Tobacco Use Prevention Education (TUPE) projects. Hired students will collect data from high schools within the Elk Grove Unified School District (EGUSD) and Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD). This internship is an opportunity for students to learn about community-based research hands on, as well as learn how community programs function. This position will require up to 20 hours per month from September 1999 through April 2000. Th hourly rate is $10.

Description of the TUPE Grant
Both EGUSD and SCUSD have multi-faceted tobacco prevention, intervention, and cessation programs. The programs include components for the following:

1. Cessation, both for general audiences and for pregnant teens;
2. Intervention strategies, designed to prevent start up among teens determined to be "at extremely high risk" for taking up smoking or other tobacco use as well ready students currently using tobacco for cessation; and
3. General Prevention; aimed at the full student population, to be provided by a cadre of trained teachers and/or community resource people.

Description of Duties
Each graduate student will serve as both a data collector and an observer of program implementation. Students will be matched up with schools based on their class schedules and evaluation needs. Responsibilities include:

1. Monitoring systematic and regularly scheduled data collection: Each school will implement the TUPE program to best meet the needs of their student body. The schools will choose form a selection of activities, lesson plans, and audio-visual materials to create their specialized program. Students will work closely with each school to collect and/or administer student surveys as the school implements each component of the program. For each activity or lesson, the students will monitor the collection of demographic information such as the total number and grade level of attending students.
2. Administering the Healthy Kids baseline survey: At the end of the school year the students will administer the Healthy Kids survey. The survey serves as the baseline for overall change in student attitudes and behaviors toward tobacco use. Schools may need assistance administering the survey and collection permission slips.
3. Conducting interviews with convenience samples of students, and/or focus groups to elicit feedback about various strategies: Students will facilitate focus groups and interviews in order to gain qualitative insight into students' attitudes and behaviors toward tobacco use. Additionally, the students will gain youth feedback regarding the effectiveness of the TUPE program materials and implementation; and
4. Regularly observing the TUPE program implementation: Students will document the use of TUPE materials and observe each school's program implementation process. Based on LPC needs and student interest, students may be asked to assist with data collection for additional programs such as teenage pregnancy prevention. Training Hired students will participate in a four-hour training session in which they will learn about the individual schools and their responsibilities. For security reasons, in order to work closely with schools, EGUSD requires that each student submit fingerprints. LPC Consulting Associates will assume the cost of the fingerprints.

Interested applicants should mail or fax a current resume and cover letter to:

Heather Ransdell
LPC Consulting Associates
PO Box 188529
Sacramento, CA 95818
Fax: (916) 447-8780

If you have questions about the opportunity, feel free to call (916) 448-8026.

The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce located in downtown Sacramento is looking for an intern for the government relations division of the Chamber. This non-paid internship reports to the Regional Policy and Programs department. Compensation:
Non Paid Expected duties/responsibilities:
Issue tracking, letter writing, policy analysis, research, "field" work, database management, and other duties. Position requirements:
Excellent verbal/written skills, organized, self-started, able to work in fast paced environment, familiarity with business a plus. Please contact Jenifer Jackson-Olson at 916/552-6808 extension 138 or email jolson@metrochamber.org.

GAO Student Employment Opportunities OR-600-99 Student Internship Program

Opens: December 18, 1998
Closes: September 30, 1999

Selections are made on an ongoing basis.

POSITIONS AVAILABLE:

GAO is hiring graduate and undergraduate students to assist the agency's staff in responding to congressional requests by performing research; determining information needs; collecting information through record searches, automated data retrieval, interviewing, and questionnaires; analyzing information and formulating recommendations; and writing reports and briefings.

Intern appointments are limited to 16 weeks. Appointments may be paid or non-paid (volunteer).

QUALIFICATIONS:

Generally, students with majors or course work in accounting, business administration, public policy/administration, computer science, management information systems, economics, or the social sciences are most likely to be successful candidates for the GAO internship program. Students with other majors and course work will also be considered.

COMPENSATION:

Paid student interns are appointed at the GS-4, 5, 7, or 9 levels depending on the number of semester hours or quarter hours completed when selected. Salaries range from about $1,400 at the GS-4 level to about $2,500 per month at the GS-9 level.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply, submit:

• a resume,
• undergraduate and/or graduate transcripts and a list of courses and credit hours in which you are currently enrolled,
• dates available for employment and anticipated return to school date, and
• Supplemental Form for location preference, email addresses, etc.

Your application must contain information on your U.S. citizenship and it would be helpful to provide your social security number for tracking purposes. You must indicate all locations for which you wish to be considered. If you do not choose one or otherwise indicate no preference, you will be considered only for Washington, DC.

Incomplete applications will not receive consideration. Resumes and transcripts will not be returned.

Send completed application package to:
        US General Accounting Office
        Office of Recruitment, Room 1165
        Attention: OR600-99 441
        G Street, NW
        Washington, DC 20548
or send by email to recruit@gao.gov Subject: OR600-99

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For the full Job announcement please go to: http://www.gao.gov/jobs/or60099.htm

Go to the Center for California Studies Fellowships and Internships page for information about some great programs.

Go to the CSUS Foundation web site for a listing of Employment Opportunities on and off campus. 

Go to the Community College Foundation job listing web site for student employment opportunities off campus. 

Go to the Cooperative Education Program website for information about unique student opportunities. 

We welcome your contributions to the Communicator! Make announcements, share your good news, reflect on your academic and professional achievements, or submit an article. Contact the Director, Bob Waste, or the Department Secretary, Suzi Byrd, (916) 278-6557, in the PPA/IA Department Office.

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