Monday 6/3, 12:00-6:30; 6.

5 hours
Tuesday 6/4, 11:00-1:30, 2:00-5:30; 6 hours
Wednesday 6/5, 11:00-6:30; 6.5 hours
Thursday 6/6, 10:30-6:30; 8 hours
Friday 6/7, 10:00-5:00, 7 hours
Saturday 6/8, 11:30-2:00, 2.5 hours
Weekly Total: 36.5 hours
Running total: 115.5 hours
Internship Journal 6/3-6/8

Monday was pretty uneventful at the safe house. I started the day by putting the finishing

touches on the board game that I created last week for Ms. Tess. That only took about an hour,

and then my next task was to create a certificate of completion for a training program that Ms.

Barbara put on last week. I attended the program so it was a little weird creating a certificate for

myself, but after Ms. Barbara’s approval I emailed the certifications to the participants.

Tuesday was an exciting day at the WRC safehouse. When I drove onto the property,

there were two sheriffs officers outside and I thought something had happened, so I began to get

worried. As it turns out, we had a new intake into the safehouse- a woman and her infant. I sat in

as my coworker went over all the paperwork and house policies. After a while the 1 year old

started to grow restless so I took her outside to play for a little while, while her mom did the

paperwork. I then presented my work from the previous week to Ms. Tess and she seemed to like

the boardgame and the research that I had done. I also took my first lunch break today.

Previously I had been eating while I worked but I decided to try the vegetarian restaurant up the

street. After lunch, I continued working on my “thesis” of findings for Barbara and took care of

the plants outside.

Wednesday was pretty similar to Monday at my internship. I mostly occupied my time

with research and childcare. On the research side, I primarily focused on looking at “fast track”

career programs and certification programs that the guests could use during their time here and
even after. We are mostly looking for programs that are either free to their students, provide

scholarships, or that cost under $5000, so as to be cost effective. The hope is to provide as many

opportunities for the women to succeed as possible, because many of them are smart and ready

to work but they have not been provided the same resources as others. I also listened in on the

crisis call line to help learn more about what my responsibilities there would include. I left at

6:30, just in time for rush hour traffic.

On Thursday, I was tasked with learning the case system that we use at the WRC. It is a

program called Apricot. We use it to keep a record of all the services we provide to the women

and children that we work with. We are switching systems soon and we need to catch our files up

in the system so that when the data is transferred none will be lost, since you can’t add

retrograded data to the new system. I spent most of the day learning this system so that on Friday

I could help with the entries.

On Friday, I spent all day logging service entries into the Apricot system. I accidentally

entered more than I had to, but I was told that was better than too little so I am not worried about

it. I helped some of the staff catch their files up so that they could attend to more pressing

matters at hand, like rehousing women and coordinating services. I left at 5 today.

On Saturday, instead of gardening I picked up a large donation from a local church and

helped the WRC put it away. There were a ton of items and the donation was definitely a

blessing on the shelter. It was raining pretty heavily all day so, even after, I didn’t get any

gardening done.