Internship opportunities are available to students who are interested in learning more about the disease addiction or looking to get experience in planning and implementing programming with the recovery population.

What our interns have done in the past:

Created an Earth Day Event:

Interns planned a community clean-up day in the neighborhoods of Coulee Council as well had a tree planted in Riverside Park in remembrance of all those that have struggled with the disease of addiction.

Created a Pool league in the Drop-In Center:

Interns created a weekly pool league to help fill the winter blues.  The league provides another form of fellowship and the chance to meet new people.

Other opportunities for internships are:

• Work with agency staff and attend various meeting and events to learn more about how the community is helping to overcome the challenges of addiction.
• Co-Facilitate recovery support programming
• Work with our fundraising team on public events like the "April Awareness" Brunch and "Home Run 9K/5K walk/run" held the first Saturday in August.
• Work with the Prevention Specialist to deliver Prevention Education in the schools.
• Develop programming for the Drop-In center.
• Work with staff to organize and provide activities during the Annual Turned Leaf Family Festival in October.
• Work with staff to prepare for the Annual Home Run Event(9K Run, 5K run/walk, Little Leaguers Races) held the first Saturday in August.

Past/Present Interns

Coulee Council provides onsite work experience for students from UW-La Crosse, Viterbo University, Western Technical College and Winona State University.  Students from Social Work, Mental Health Counseling, Community Health Education, Criminal Justice, and Servant Leadership programs have used Coulee Council as an internship opportunity.