Edgecombe County's Vidant Hospital hosts interns in the field of advance care planning.  Internships in the past have included: chart reviews to determine the impact of advance care planning on end of life care, surveys in skilled nursing facilities to determine the need for advance care planning and palliative care in facility settings, organizing innovative community events for education on advance care planning, and preparing presentations for the community.

Be part of a team that is changing the face of rural education! Edgecombe County Public Schools is committed to "doing school differently" to ensure that all scholars have the opportunity to realize their dreams. This summer, ENCIP plans to host as many as three interns through ECPS. Interns will work with individual schools on projects as wide-ranging as: planning lessons for teachers, redesigning classrooms and other spaces to improve student experiences, creating informational videos for students, visual design projects like creating a logo and a one-pager, and supporting tasks in the Human Resources department.

If you are passionate about educational equity and want to learn more about making it a reality in rural communities, this is the internship for you!

At the County Health Department, our interns have researched ways to combat the rising frequency of opioid abuse in the area, as well as topics in women’s health. In the past, the interns who worked here, worked with local public health staff on tobacco prevention initiatives, studied topics in women’s health and supported projects combatting opioid abuse.

Are you passionate about studying ways to increase access of parks and green spaces to the underserved? This internship will focus on creating safe and equitable access to all in public parks, swimming and areas of recreation. Two interns collaborating with town officials will learn about Tarboro’s parks and hone grant-writing skills to find funding for the underserved in parks, green spaces, swimming and other recreation.

Two interns will work together to learn about and experience law enforcement in our county. These interns will have the opportunity to work with law enforcement, review criminal data in Edgecombe County, interview inmates to understand and construct a plan to reduce recidivism in our area.

This internship will have the opportunity to connect with at-risk middle school and high school young men who are in a program which helps them gain personal, financial, and academic life-skills. The intern will evaluate the structure now in place and learn grant-writing skills to sustain and supplement funding.

Realizing that rural communities and people have deep assets and strengths that are often overlooked, the ROI team supports trauma-informed and resilient communities by implementing design thinking and systems thinking in partnership with communities in rural Eastern North Carolina (ENC). Their mission is to support youth, organizations, and communities to interrupt the cycle of generational trauma and design innovative solutions for healing and resilience. Their vision is for a system that builds the capacity of rural, majority-Black communities to support people’s healing from adversity to achieve health, safety, connection, and self-determination. ROI interns must be self motivated, comfortable working remotely, and good working in an unstructured startup environment.

Interested? Submit an application today!

we accept applications on a rolling basis until all positions are filled.