Sports Mental Health & Behavioral Wellness Internship in Chicago, Illi

Job Overview

Job Description

Sports Mental Health & Behavioral Wellness Internship in Chicago, Illinois Connecting People to Purpose
Location: Remote (open to applicants in Chicago, IL and nationwide)

WHAT TOUGH COSTS
Bears weather, Bulls dynasties, a lakefront marathon: Chicago worships endurance, and endurance teaches players to hide pain. The internship is remote, in a national cohort online, with no local office or partnership claimed.

ONE CONVERSATION
The curriculum is one interview: Warren Moon with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on ALL THE SMOKE, discussing racism, family pressure, and secretly attending therapy. Moon's path: undrafted as a quarterback, five consecutive Grey Cups with the Edmonton Eskimos, the NFL's highest-paid player with the Houston Oilers, nine Pro Bowls, playing until forty four, and the Hall of Fame in 2006, its first undrafted and first Black quarterback inducted. You study it chapter by chapter and build content from it: asking for help is a strength.

SIX WORKSTREAMS, SIX CHAPTERS
Production runs six ways: Active Listening with the interview as guide, Mental Health Research, Content Creation, Community Education, Purpose Connection, and Legacy in Real Time. Listening follows six chapters, among them Refusing to Change Positions and Secretly Attending Therapy, pulling threads the science names plainly: hidden help, being the only one, racism in the body, and stigma.

BUILT FOR CHICAGO HANDS
Students and emerging professionals belong here: athletes, coaches, psychology and social work students, writers, and media creators. A city fluent in the toughness script can draft a better one, and you leave with a finished piece.

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THE FIVE PRINCIPLES
The Five Principles of Voice Up hold us: Collaboration (all are welcome), Humility (we all have much to learn), Precision (all the details matter), Patience (we all need forgiveness; we all make mistakes and learn from each), Empathy (we must understand your why). This is how Voice Up has achieved what it has to date.

STEP ONE
You can start as an academic intern for credit through your school, or start as a volunteer. Or enroll in the School for Humans Flourishing.

STEP TWO
Interns who demonstrate success, reliable and consistent and living the Five Principles, qualify first as Leadership Fellows at $25 to $35 per hour, then as consultants at $50 to $100 per hour.

DETAILS
Eight weeks, remote and flexible, five to fifteen hours a week, national cohort online. Special projects pay $20 to $30 per hour. New cohorts begin on the first of each month. Voice Up Publishing Incorporated posts this internship.

HOW TO APPLY
Email . Tell us who you are, where you learned the toughness script, and one Moon scene you want to unpack first. Learn more at voiceuplab.org/InternshipSportsMentalHealth.

Voice Up is a program of J Ellington Publishing LLC. We connect people to purpose. One conversation at a time. Share your story. Connect with others. Elevate your impact.