Get Involved

Undergraduate Students

  • Are you outgoing?  You can volunteer with the Child HELP Partnership to help disseminate our state-of-the-art treatments and awareness campaigns into the diverse communities of Queens, New York State, and beyond.
     
  • Do you have design, video-making and production skills? Help us create a Child HELP Partnership documentary and other media.
     
  • Are you good at planning events?  Help us with our events.
     
  • Do you speak Spanish, French Creole, Hindi, Urdu, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hebrew or other languages? Help the Child HELP Partnership translate its material into various languages to bring the best treatment and interventions into multicultural communities.
     
  • Are you a McNair or Ozanam Scholars student? Use these programs to volunteer with the Child HELP Partnership.

Graduate Students

  • Are you a graduate student in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work or Anthropology? Help conduct research on the work that the Child HELP Partnership is carrying out and share datasets for interesting publications, get great supervision, and connect with nationally renowned experts.
     
  • Are you majoring in journalism, public relations, government? Help the Child HELP Partnership connect with the appropriate governmental and non-governmental resources in the community as well as newspaper sources for its awareness campaigns.
     
  • Are you a third or fourth year graduate student looking for clinical experiences with traumatized youth and their families?  Apply to the PARTNERS Clinic /LEAP Externship.  The externship at the PARTNERS Clinic provides a unique opportunity for graduate students in clinical and school psychology to gain experience in providing empirically-supported assessments and treatments for traumatized preschoolers, children, adolescents, and young adults and their caregivers. 

Community Members and Consultants

  • Are you a community leader in your church, temple, synagogue, mosque? Help the Child HELP Partnership raise awareness about various issues concerning children and families who experience emotional stress and trauma.

 

Help Make a Difference

If you wish to volunteer, please contact Ms. Trish Batchelor at batchelp@stjohns.edu