INTERNSHIP ANNOUNCEMENT Public Health & Caring Families Voice Up Publishing Incorporated Remote • Flexible Hours • Academic Credit Volunteer Hours Stipend Pathway Position Overview Voice Up Publishing Incorporated, is a Social Impact C Corporation, invites applications for the Public Health & Caring Families Internship. This is a fully remote, flexible-hours position available to individuals at any stage of their academic or professional journey. The internship may be completed for academic credit, verified volunteer hours, or through a stipend pathway available to interns who demonstrate consistent follow-up, follow-through, and sustained contribution over time. Voice Up is a mission-driven organization dedicated to workforce development, behavioral health equity, and the recognition of individuals’ existing strengths as assets for community transformation. The Public Health & Caring Families initiative is grounded in the conviction that mental and behavioral health begins at home and that families, when equipped and connected to their communities, are among the most effective and underutilized public health resources available. This internship places participants at the center of that work. Scope of Work Interns will contribute substantively to the development and delivery of Voice Up’s Public Health & Caring Families programming. Assignments are tailored to each intern’s skills, interests, and available hours, and may include the following areas of responsibility: Researching and drafting family wellness activity guides, conversation frameworks, and community project models that make mental and behavioral health engagement practical and accessible for families of all backgrounds Conducting research on evidence-informed practices in family mental health, community health promotion, and the social determinants of wellbeing to support program and curriculum development Supporting the identification and outreach to nonprofit organizations, faith-based institutions, and community anchor organizations aligned with Voice Up’s mission Contributing to content development including impact narratives, case studies, blog posts, and newsletter features that communicate the human dimension of Voice Up’s community health work Assisting in the design and documentation of community uplift projects family-centered initiatives that produce tangible, visible benefit to the broader community Supporting grant reporting, organizational documentation, and special project deliverables as assigned by Voice Up leadership Participation Pathways Academic Credit. Interns seeking academic credit will receive structured learning objectives, coordination with faculty supervisors, documented hours, formal evaluations at mid-term and completion, and a written reflection or capstone deliverable aligned with their program requirements. Students enrolled in programs in public health, social work, education, nonprofit management, ministry, or related fields are encouraged to apply. Volunteer Hours. Interns fulfilling community service requirements, faith community commitments, or professional development hours will receive a verified hours log, written documentation of contributions suitable for organizational or licensing records, and a letter of service upon successful completion. Stipend Pathway. Interns who demonstrate consistent follow-up, follow-through, and growing quality of contribution become eligible for ongoing stipend support and inclusion in Voice Up’s special projects. Eligibility is evaluated on a rolling basis beginning after the first sixty days of active engagement. This pathway is not guaranteed at the start it is earned through demonstrated reliability and initiative, and is open to any intern regardless of academic enrollment status. Qualifications There is no degree requirement for this internship. Voice Up welcomes applications from students, recent graduates, career changers, community members, faith leaders, and individuals with lived experience connected to the populations and communities this work serves. The following qualities are essential: Genuine interest in public health, family wellbeing, community development, nonprofit service, faith-based outreach, or social impact work Demonstrated reliability the ability to meet commitments, communicate proactively, and follow through without prompting Strong written communication skills and the ability to present information clearly and accessibly for diverse audiences Capacity to work independently in a fully remote, flexible-hours environment Alignment with Voice Up’s core organizational principles: Collaboration, Humility, Precision, Patience, and Empathy How to Apply Interested individuals should submit a brief email to that includes a personal introduction, a description of what draws them to the Public Health & Caring Families work, the participation pathway of interest, and their available hours per week or month. A formal resume or cover letter is welcome but not required. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Voice Up Publishing Incorporated is an equal opportunity organization and actively welcomes applicants from all backgrounds, lived experiences, disciplines, and communities. Mary Douglass was born in Lowndes County around 1920. She grew up during the long decades of sharecropping and economic terror that defined Black life in the Alabama Black Belt. She raised her children in conditions that the life expectancy tables said should have shortened her own life to somewhere around fifty-five years. She lived to eighty-four. That discrepancy twenty-nine years beyond what the actuarial tables predicted for a Black woman born in Lowndes County is not a footnote in this story. It is the story. Her son, Charlie Douglass, was born in 1940 in Hayneville, the county seat. He walked barefoot to school until he was fifteen. He went on to win a statewide brick masonry contest, serve as a military radio technician, teach electronics to young people who still remember his lessons decades later, and maintain two hundred years of family genealogical records in a county designed to make that kind of memory impossible. At eighty-five, he mows his lawn with a push mower and bowls in a league. The Lowndes County life expectancy for a Black man born in 1940 is sixty-eight and a half years. Charlie Douglass has lived sixteen and a half years beyond that threshold. The statistical probability of that survival is somewhere between ten and fifteen percent. We connect people to their purpose one conversation at a time.