About the program
The Title X Intern Program: Building a Bright Future for Family Planning
Meeting the reproductive health needs of a rapidly changing population requires the development of a highly skilled and diverse workforce of culturally and linguistically competent family planning professionals.
To help build that workforce, the California Family Health Council has developed a one of a kind project to place talented students in family planning clinics and give them hands on experience working in women's health care.
With the support of Title X funding, CFHC is helping these students build a bright future for family planning.
The Title X Intern Program
Provides paid field placements in reproductive health care and family planning agencies in:
- California
- Arizona
- Nevada
- Hawaii
Participants can choose from over 90 possible placement sites in rural or urban settings in:
- County Health Departments
- Community Clinics
- Free Clinics
- Family Planning Clinics
Internships are focused on family planning and provide work experience in:
- Administration
- Research
- Education
- Outreach
- Public Policy
- Marketing
- Program Development
- Program Evaluation
- Clinical
- Media relations
The Title X Intern Program
Provides career track opportunities for graduate students in public health, health science, education, communications and related fields. Program benefits include:
- Stipends are available based on the total hours the student works in the agency
- Year round placements with flexible hours
- Opportunities to develop relationships with professionals in the field
- Opportunities to serve in ethnically and culturally diverse communities
- Real life experience in all aspects of the field of reproductive health care
Results
- Since its inception, over 200 highly motivated students have been placed in internships
- Participating agencies have benefited from more than 85,000 hours of work performed by interns
- Dozens of interns have gained employment with their placement agencies, others have secured employment in other family planning agencies and 95% of program participants have gone on to pursue careers in the field of public health
- Recruitment of minority students is a program priority