Upcoming Opportunities for High School Students
It is hard to believe but just four weeks ago we rang in a new year and just last week we welcomed a new president. Time during the pandemic seems to cycle between very fast and extremely slow. As nuts as it sounds, soon high schoolers are starting the search for potential job, volunteer, and internship opportunities. Going into spring and summer, we want to help connect high schoolers to anything they might be interested in, especially because navigating this is difficult during the pandemic. If you know of an opportunity, please send it our way and it will be put into either a blogpost, in our newsletter, or both.
Send an email to jessi@ppssf.org with the following information:
General description of the position
Application due date, and timeline for the opportunity
Paid or unpaid? Will there be an opportunity for school credit?
Remote or in-person
We will be regularly updating this blog post, when it is past an applications deadline, we will take down that opportunity. To look at a huge variety of resources for youth, including programs, jobs, and opportunities, click here.
Image Credit: The Contemporary Jewish Museum
INTERNSHIP: Teen Art Connect Internship at The Contemporary Jewish Museum
Teen Art Connect (TAC) Internship is a job training program that brings together high school students from diverse backgrounds for a year-round paid internship exploring culture through art at The Contemporary Jewish Museum. All high school students entering 10th, 11th, or 12th grade in fall 2021 are eligible to apply. Applications are due by 5PM, Friday, March 12th, 2021. To attend a TAC Internship Open House on February 28, 2021, click here. To learn more and to apply, click here
PROGRAM: The YMCA of San Francisco is offering an Environmental Prevention youth program for students attending any public high school within SFUSD. Students who choose to participate in this program will learn about changing policies, settings, and community conditions to lessen the exposure to alcohol and other drugs at a young age. Throughout the course of the program, we will look at the magnitude of the problem, the turnover in risk groups, and focus on making a unified impact, as individual effort alone has little success.
The Environmental Prevention program offers a $200 stipend for students who complete the program. This is a great opportunity for high school students who are looking for work experience, need to fulfill community service hours, or simply want to use their skills, talents and voice to make a change in the community.
The program will take place via Zoom, every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM. The program will run for 12 weeks, starting February 9th and ending May 6th. It is open to all SFUSD high schoolers who are interested. To ask any questions or enroll your child in the program, please contact the program leader, Tonie Shannon, using the following contact information: Phone: 650.741.5418 and email: TShannon@ymcasf.org
Image Credit: Project Open Hand
VOLUNTEER with Project Open Hand
Project Open Hand is seeking volunteers that want to contribute to their community by helping prepare meals for some of the area’s most vulnerable residents. Volunteers at 730 Polk Street help prepare, package and deliver meals with love, 365 days a year. Volunteers must be 15 years old or older and Project Open Hand is asking student volunteers to commit to 40 hours of volunteering for each semester. To learn more and to complete your inquiry form, click here.
INTERNSHIP with SFUSD
SFUSD regularly hosts high school interns during the summer months. There may be less opportunities this year, but some are still available. SFUSD high school students who will be 14 or older by 6/1/21 are eligible to pre-apply and can learn more by clicking here.
Image Credit: Flyaway.
GIRLFLY: SUMMER ART & ACTIVISM CAMP with Flyaway
Girlfly will bring together 20 young women from the Bay Area for four weeks to:
Get hands-on experience in site specific dance, and make dances at Quesada Gardens in San Francisco’s Bayview District
Earn $500
Create original dances and perform them
Learn from working with professional dance artists, writers, and gardeners
Learn about issues of girls’ empowerment, community building, land acknowledgements, and racial justice
Research and carry out a Writing as Activism project, led by an Ethnic Studies professor from SF State
Connect with young women/GNC youth across neighborhoods, schools, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity
Click here to learn more. Click here to apply. Applications are due on May 1.
MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM through the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice
Community Options for Youth is an outpatient community-based mental health program that provides case management and therapeutic services to adolescents age 12-24 in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was specifically designed to meet the needs of the Transitional Age Youth (TAY) population, and youth that have been involved in the Juvenile Justice System, and can be used as a step-down from more intensive care. The program is committed to providing a wide range of high level specialized mental health services to the youth and their families to build a safer and more supportive home environment, and address challenges that are coming up in their lives. To learn more, click here. To fill out the youth referral form, click here.