Douglass Community Services, Inc.-Court Appointed Special Advocate (DCS-CASA) has internships available for interested students throughout the school year. Internships provide students with an experience in human service/non-profit field through real work responsibilities in a range of areas within the CASA Program. General information on the internship and the application process is found below. Please read all of this before completing an application (also found below).

CASA Program seeks to provide students with an experience that exposes them to human service procedures while providing students with meaningful responsibilities. Prospective interns can request specific areas of work as well as specific departments. Some examples of types of work that have been done in the past include:
- Communications
- Evaluation and Research
- Project and program management
- Development
- Marketing
- Computer technology
- New media/social media
- Human service programming
- Criminal Justice programming

- Must have permission of the institution at which he/she is enrolled to participate in the program.
- Must be enrolled not less than half time in a course of study related to the work to be performed.
- Must be currently attending a high school, trade school, technical or vocational institute, junior college, college, university or other accredited educational institution.
- Recognizes that the services performed will not be compensated by the agency.
- Must be willing to sign a written document of agreement between Douglass Community Services-CASA program and the student and his/her educational institution outlining the responsibilities of each.
- Students must be at least 18 years of age.

Applicants for the CASA Intern program will be accepted throughout the year on a rolling application schedule. Applications need to be received at a minimum of a month before the proposed start date to be considered, however, it is highly recommended that applications are submitted much further in advance due to high demand for spots in the program (especially during the summer season).
Once an application is received, the applicant may receive a request for an interview and then may be offered a second round of interviews with relevant intern supervisors. Once notified of program decision, accepted applicants will have a week to either accept or decline the position offer. The whole process from application submission to receiving an offer may take several weeks, depending on the demand for intern positions at DCS-CASA and the timing of the submission.
While there are four terms that the bulk of intern programming occurs in, DCS-CASA welcomes interns at any point throughout the year and it is up to intern candidates and their prospective supervisors to negotiate the exact dates of internships. The four primary terms take place during*:
- Summer: June-July has most of the programming while there will be limited programming during May and August.
- Fall: September - mid December
- Winter: January - mid March
- Spring: mid March - May
*students are invited to apply to any set of dates that most convenience them. However, introductory trainings and most events will occur during the outlined seasons.