Intern, Healthcare Program
Intern, Healthcare Program (Summer 2025)
About the Alliance:
The Alliance for Children's Rights is a nonprofit organization that provides free holistic legal services and advocacy to youth and families impacted by child welfare and juvenile justice systems in Los Angeles County and works to enact policy changes statewide. Our lawyers, advocates, and social workers, together with hundreds of pro bono attorneys and community volunteers, work to ensure that those we serve have the tools to overcome barriers to stability and success, and access to the education, healthcare, and financial supports that they need. Since 1992, we have helped over 150,000 children. For more information visit: www.allianceforchildrensrights.org.
Job Description:
The Alliance is actively recruiting a healthcare intern for its challenging fall program. The healthcare intern will interact with potential Alliance clients and collaborate with Alliance staff, while learning about the Los Angeles County dependency system and the resources available to those involved in the system.
All students in our program receive rigorous training on child welfare laws and client intake. In addition, the healthcare interns work may include:
- Advocating with the Department of Children and Family Services and medical providers to resolve issues related to Medi-Cal coverage and access to health care services
- Attending collaborative community meetings related to health care
- Serving as primary client contact on selected cases
- Attending program case review
- Improving oral and written advocacy skills
Qualifications:
- Must be a current undergraduate or graduate student.
- Desire to work with foster youth and their caregivers.
- Diversity highly valued.
- Ability to work efficiently, independently, and with attention to detail.
- Spanish fluency strongly preferred.
- Ability to work full time (M-F 9:00a-5:30p PST) for 10 weeks in summer 2025. Internships are competitive. No split schedules considered.
Applications:
- Please submit a cover letter, resume, and unofficial transcript.
- Cover letter must confirm full-time availability, including first available start date.
Stipend:
The Alliance can provide a stipend up to $7,500 (for full-time graduate level students), or up to $5,000 (for full-time undergraduate level students).
The Alliance for Children’s Rights is committed to building and supporting a culturally diverse and inclusive environment that values all staff members’ backgrounds and perspectives in our work. We strongly encourage individuals from all traditionally underrepresented communities to apply. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. We are an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and prohibit discrimination against employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, veteran status, or any other unlawful basis.