Internships - Undergraduate & Health Professions Students

**Since our founding in 2007**, Project Horseshoe Farm has taken action on these pivotal questions.

In 2009, we launched our nationally recognized, educational grant-supported ***Community Health Gap Year Fellowship*** for top recent college graduates from across the country. Since then, we have expanded our programs to include ***Internships*** for top undergraduate, post-baccalaureate, master's, and health professions students, as well as **CLIMB ACADEMY and Volunteer and Experiential Learning*** opportunities for high school students.

Working as teams with ongoing teaching and mentorship, Fellows and Interns participate in and learn from Horseshoe Farm's **distinctive 6-pillar approach** to helping our vulnerable neighbors, strengthening local communities, and preparing tomorrow's community health and citizen service leaders.

Horseshoe Farm Biopsychosocial Community Health Model

***Horseshoe Farm's unique multidimensional integrative approach to community health*** - Our approach starts with individualized volunteer service in support of our vulnerable neighbors (adults living with mental illness, the elderly, other isolated or vulnerable adults, and children). We provide consistent caring relationships and help with psychosocial factors that impact the health and quality of life of these individuals. By acting as caring, consistent neighbors and citizen volunteers, we also help reinforce the social fabric that is so critical to the healthy function of local communities. Finally, by building broad relationships and connections and helping to support and connect multiple local partner organizations, we help strengthen the local institutional infrastructure and the interconnection among institutions. This is all done while giving hands on experience, mentorship, and teaching to top students preparing to become tomorrow's community health and citizen service leaders.