You can be a mentor IN ADDITION TO your internship, but volunteering to mentor a youth can never be transactional. In this case, it means that you can not exchange course credits or pay for your time as a mentor to a young person.

If you would like to become a volunteer mentor in addition to your internship, talk to your supervisor!

If you can't commit to the full school year right now, that's okay. We're happy to help you get started for however long you are able to spend with us! However, the best impact from your internship experience comes from a full school year so that you can observe and participate in all of the agency's services and cycles.

All Interns are required to fulfill a BBSVC application, orientation, and training. You may also have paperwork from your referring office, but this is separate from BBSVC's required paperwork that our agency must have on file.

Any interns who will be working with youth will be required to undergo BBSVC's Youth Safety Training and California's State Mandated Reporter Training before beginning on-site. These are tracked hours for your internship and costs are covered by BBSVC.

Every internship experience is delivered with you in mind as an individual. We will start with 4 group trainings that cover administrative and technical skills to make sure everyone is starting on the same page, but you'll also be able to set your own goal of what you want to learn and achieve during your internship. You'll also receive individualized guidance from your agency supervisor so that you can focus in on learning skills and discovering opportunities that are of interest to YOU!

We expect a full learning cycle is at least one year, so don't feel like you need to know everything all at once! All we ask of our interns is to show up, demonstrate commitment to learning, and be willing to try.

And we also recognize that everyone has a different learning style they prefer, grows at a different pace, and meets challenges differently! Your supervisor will mentor you on this Big Futures pathway to build career skills that you find valuable in a way that best supports you. Make sure to communicate your needs - and your successes! - as you go.

At present, all Internships considered nonprofit volunteer roles and are unpaid directly by BBSVC. BBSVC prioritizes placing enrolled college and high school students into Internship positions to help satisfy required community service hours, and prioritizes our campus partners whose student career centers/programs have demonstrated strong responsibility for their students' socioeconomic and mental health.

You may receive course credit, pay, or volunteer hours as tracked by your campus' student employment program, county program, or other referral source - please speak with your counselor or advisor for more information.