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Staggering the 1st internship
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Lisa Prentice Posts: 15
11/16/2021
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Hello,
I'm looking for ideas on how best to stagger the interns when they begin to head out into their first internships. I recall seeing something like a spreadsheet on the website but can't seem to locate it. We have 10 interns each year and it seems to take close to 3 weeks or more to get everyone placed.... I'm thinking there has to be a better way.
Thank you!
Lisa in Oakville Ontario
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Meaghan Jones Posts: 20
11/16/2021
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Hi Lisa,
It has always taken us several weeks to stagger them out. If you have several areas with strong natural supports where the workplace takes on training, you can shave a little time off. But in Winnipeg we often try to give our interns 2-3 days of 1:1 support to ensure they have their start up and end of day routines in place, and enough tasks that can be completed independently with accuracy to keep them busy while we shift on to other students.
This year we had some do half days to begin so they rolled out a little faster, but it really depended on the placement to make it work. One of the interns was quite thrown when we shifted to whole days, so I don't know if we will do that again or not.
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Lisa Prentice Posts: 15
11/17/2021
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Thank you so much for your feedback - it helps to know that other programs take a few weeks as well. And we were also going to try the 1/2 day and it sounds like we will need to choose the interns carefully if we give that a try. Thanks!!!!!
mjones9@hsc.mb.ca wrote:
Hi Lisa,
It has always taken us several weeks to stagger them out. If you have several areas with strong natural supports where the workplace takes on training, you can shave a little time off. But in Winnipeg we often try to give our interns 2-3 days of 1:1 support to ensure they have their start up and end of day routines in place, and enough tasks that can be completed independently with accuracy to keep them busy while we shift on to other students.
This year we had some do half days to begin so they rolled out a little faster, but it really depended on the placement to make it work. One of the interns was quite thrown when we shifted to whole days, so I don't know if we will do that again or not.
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Emily Castro Posts: 3
12/8/2021
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What worked for us is to have workshop week and have an instructor (job coach) teach the group as another job coach supports 1-2 interns at their new rotation the rest of the day. a new intern would start and be staggered daily. You would need staff to make this happen. Good luck.
edited by emily.castro@pathpoint.org on 12/8/2021
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