Internships are available to students from many educational areas.  Most applicants at are pursuing higher education in social work, psychology, sociology, criminal justice, education, ministry or related fields.

Hope Harbor offers unpaid internships in a supervised job-shadow capacity with Direct Care Staff in direct-care service.  Interns over age 21 may be considered for paid fill-in work if available.  There may be opportunity for observation of Group Teaching and Parenting Class. Observation of individual biblical counseling sessions (parent or teen) is limited to students pursuing their masters degree in counseling. 

Intern applicants must be: students, currently enrolled in higher education, at least 20 years old, who pass a background check and who are interested in learning about family reconciliation and healing of teens through Jesus Christ in a Christian ministry. 

Applicants must mail or email a resume, cover letter and three recommendations, and complete the Volunteer Application online through the link above (or print version below). Applicants are encouraged to include a statement of faith with resume. 

Please note that not every site employs a licensed social worker, however local universities have found exception for social work interns.  Speak with your professor or have your professor contact us, for clearance.

Email and Mailing List Privacy Notice

Your privacy is important to us, and we desire to protect it. Hope Harbor maintains an opt-in policy for email communications. We only want to send mail to those who have requested participation or with whom we have an ongoing individual or business relationship. 

Your right to control what mailings, if any, you receive from Hope Harbor is important to us.  We may include messages from partners or third parties in mailings, but these will come directly from us and we will not share, sell or rent your email address ever.

Resident Rights and Organizational Privacy Policy

Hope Harbor residents have the right to have information about them kept private.  It is our policy to ensure that operations, activities and affairs of the ministry are kept confidential, unless the sharing of information is required by law, ordered by the court of law, required by the licensing body of the organization or an essential part of the treatment plan or is for the protection of the clients or ministry. 

Confidential information includes, but is not limited to: information regarding past, current, and future residents and their families, internal reporting and Hope Harbor’s intellectual property.  Release of information to other professionals outside of Hope Harbor may be done only when parent(s)/guardian sign a release form and only by persons authorized on the release form.

Statement Regarding HIPAA

(1) Hope Harbor is not a covered entity under HIPAA and is not required to be HIPAA compliant. (2) Hope Harbor can request information from HIPAA covered entities, and covered entities can release that information via fax or ground mail. HIPAA protected information may not be shared via email. (3) Covered entities may also require a signature of their own HIPAA compliant releases before releasing information.