• Exit Exam Application
• Exit Interview Form
• Portfolio Checklist
• Research Form (DRB/IRB)
• Request for Recommendation

Field Experience Forms

• Application Form
• Time sheet
• Mentor's Evaluation
• Students Evaluation
• Ethics Agreement

Field Placement Links
Check this list frequently for the newest Field Placement Opportunities! Since it sometimes takes a few days to get information on the website, you should also check the field placement bulletin board located outside room 108 Ledford. If you are having trouble finding a placement to match your interests, contact Dr. Cynthia Edwards at 760-8441 or edwardsc@meredith.edu

• The Student Conservation Association (SCA) offers Internship/Corp positions located at national parks, forests and historic sites. These are expense paid internships from 12 weeks to 12 months, located in all 50 states. Along with science and environmental studies majors, service types include historical and environmental interpretation, anthropology, public relations, photography, museum work and over 45 other disciplines. For more information go to www.theSCA.org
  
  The Career Center has a reserved copy of the September 2004 catalog of Get Real SCA Internships.
  
  
• Summer Missions Associate to Children. First Baptist Church of Graham, NC is seeking a summer missions associate. This is a 10-week summer position. Salary ($180.00 per week) and housing are provided. For additional information, see the internship bulletin board on first floor Ledford, contact Sam Carothers (carotherss@meredith.edu or 760-8346). Resumes and inquiries should be directed to the church contact, Chris Phelps, Minister of Education and Youth, First Baptist Church -- Graham, P.O. Box 779, Graham, NC 27253, (336)226-7395(office) 336-226-0261 (fax) email: phelps@fbcgraham.org
  
  
• Tutor at-risk teenagers in high school courses weekday afternoons. Tutoring will take place at the Jones H. Garland building in downtown Raleigh. The teenagers are in a court ordered drug treatment program and receive incentives for good grades. The teenagers are not violent offenders and they really need help to catch up on their school work.
  
  For more information please contact Ryan Cobb, Juvenile Court Service Manager @ 857-9292 Or by e-mail at cmd36@gateway.net.
  
  
• Summer Camps for special needs children! New information will be coming in daily throughout the spring semester, contact Dr. Edwards for more information
  
  
• Brentwood Elementary School (A unique public school with a high minority, low income population and several special needs classrooms. Good opportunities for students seeking experience in special education, autism, etc.). See Dr. Edwards for details.
  
  
• Interested in working one-on-one with a child with developmental disabilities? Contact Dr. Edwards for more information. (Many of these positions are paid)
  
  
• Volunteer experiences are great resume-builders! Employers value civic involvement, even if it does not relate directly to your major or your career goals. Many volunteer opportunities qualify for field placement credit. Others may not qualify for credit, but are personally fulfilling. Both look good on your resume! For volunteer opportunities in addition to those listed in this website, check out the following:

1. NCSU's volunteer website at www.fis.ncsu.edu/slc/
2. Contact Meredith's new volunteer coordinator, Lynne Wheatley at 760-8346 or wheatleyl@meredith.edu

Alphabetical List of Placements

• American Lung Association of North Carolina
• Autism Society of North Carolina's Summer Camp
• Autism Services, Inc.
• Boys and Girls Clubs 834-6282
• Boy Scouts of America 872-4884
• City of Raleigh Community Services
• City of Raleigh Parks and Recreation (scroll down to "part-time jobs")
• Community Partnerships, Inc.
• Dorothea Dix Hospital
• DOSE
• Duke University Medical Center, Child and Family Life (contact Katherine Clark in Meredith's Child Development departhment 760-8566)
• Easter Seal Society of North Carolina, Inc.
• Exchange Clubs Child Abuse Prevention Center
• Girl Scouts, Pines of the Carolina
• Growing Place
• Haven House
• Hilltop House
• Hopeline, Inc.
• IBM (see Dr. Edwards)
• Interact
• Learning Together
• Make-A-Wish Foundation of North Carolina
• Maxim Healthcare (781-9646)
• Methodist Home for Children.
• Murdoch Center (contact Rod Realon at rrealon@aol.com)
• North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
• North Carolina Division of Services for the Blind
• North Carolina Museum of History
• Poe Montessori Magnet
• Prevent Child Abuse: North Carolina Chapter
• Project Enlightenment (this is a pdf file)
• Raleigh Community Hospital
• Safechild
• Salvation Army
• Self Help for the Hard of Hearing
• Southlight
• Tammy Lynn Center for Developmental Disabilities
• Tenth District Juvenile Services
• Thomas S. Reserach Project
• United Cerebral Palsy
• Wake County Communities in Schools (see Dr. Edwards for information on programs in individual schools)
• Wake County Health Department
• Wake County Mental Health/ Developmental Disabilities/ Substance
• Wake Medical Center
• Wake County opportunities, Inc.
• Wake Teen Medical Services
• YMCA of Wake County
• YWCA of Wake County

Current Field Placement Students
If you are a currently enrolled Field Placement student, you need to do the following in order to access your class discussion group:

• Bring up Blackboard on your browser.
• Login and go to the courses section.
• The course label is PSY340EDWARDS.
• Go to Course Documents for necessary forms and worksheets.

Questions or problems? Contact me at 760-8441 or edwardsc@meredith.edu.