Internships and Service Projects
Jasmine Ader, "Foley Community Service Center: Improving Communication"
During the spring semester of 2018 I was the Communications Intern for the Foley Community Service Center at Spring Hill College. As the Communications/Marketing Intern, it was my job to discovery better methods of communication with the audiences the Foley Community Service Center upholds. During my time as an intern I conducted a Communications and Marketing audit and helped increase content for the social media platforms the Foley Community Service Center maintains. In addition, I executed other projects throughout the spring of 2018 to help the Foley Community Service Center exchange information to its audiences.
Bernard Crandle, Elizabeth Kasongo, "English Second Language Speakers Communities in Mobile"
This project will analyze communities that the Foley Center’s ESL students live in. We will be looking to see if certain language speakers live in certain groups and if so how we can advertise to them about the Foley Center’s ESL program. The project will show a map on google with pins of all our current student’s neighborhoods. We will analyze the proximity of these students and discuss how we, as community engagers, can engage those communities and extract more people for our ESL program. Our end goal is to help more people study the English language and show where our students come from. We plan to demonstrate all of this on a big poster board of sorts with the map drawn out (or printed) and the pins on there. From there we will explain to our viewers how we found this information, what it means, and how we feel we can help express our concern for people who have moved to this country and need to learn the language.
Isabelle Delplanche, "Analyzing the Impact of the Beads of Courage Program on Hospital Nurses"
This semester, I have been an intern through the Foley Center at USA Children's and Women's Hospital. I have been serving in the Volunteer Services office and the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). While in the NICU, I administer direct patient care as well as promote and partake in the Beads of Courage program. Beads of Courage is an arts-in-medicines supportive program for seriously ill children (or in this case infants), their families, and their health care providers. For every medical procedure or challenge that the patient experiences, a bead is given representing that event and their overall journey. I have conducted a research project through my internship, analyzing the impact the program has on the NICU staff by surveying the nurses on different aspects of the program. My goal is to increase staff participation in the program, as well as improving the program by ensuring its sustainability once the internship is over.
Lauren Dreaden, Mikail Parkinson, "Practicing Civic Leadership in Trinity Gardens"
Over the past year, my cohort and I have strengthened our leadership skills and those of others by gathering the members of Trinity Gardens to discuss their community. These discussions shed light on the well-being of Trinity Gardens and the community system as a whole.
Stephanie Hightower, "The Observed Effect of Applied Behavioral Analysis on Classroom Behavior"
This project looks at the behavioral data of children at Little Tree Preschool to determine if the Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA) principles being used are changing the behaviors. The goal is to have a reduction in the two behaviors that this project is looking at, aggression towards others (ATO) and leaving assigned area (LAA). The data is collected by the teachers and staff of Little Tree. For this project, the mean for each week was found for each behavior and charted to see if there was a reduction in the behavior.
Olivia Miller, Kameron Powell, "New Day Experience Re-Entry Resource Map"
In partnership with the Project H.O.P.E (Helping Offenders Pursue Excellence) subcommittee and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Alabama, Spring Hill College faculty, staff, and students created the New Day Experience Re-Entry Resource Map to help previously incarcerated individuals reintegrate into society. The map’s goal is to help reduce recidivism in Mobile County. They mapped 62 service providers that offer one-stop-shop community resources (i.e., Light of the Village) or singular services (e.g., shelter, GED training, drug rehabilitation). Students involved in this impact-oriented extracurricular activity gained insight into the invisible legal, political, and socioeconomic manifestations on infrastructure in our local society. Here is the map website: https://tinyurl.com/reentrymap02
Courtney Wagoner, "Therapeutic Animals At USA Children's and Women's Hospital"
Explaining how the fish tanks and the dog therapy that happens at the hospital help to comfort the children going through treatment and the staff working at the hospital.