Mentorship Impact on Workforce Dev.

Changing the Internship Experience: Applying Theory to Practice

Mentoring the Next Generation of Providers serving Victims of Crime

Lea S. Denny

CEO & Founder HIR Wellness Institute

"It's time for a change in the way an internship looks and feels. We must invest in the next generation of leading professionals."

- Lea S. Denny, CEO & Founder HIR Wellness Institute

HIR Wellness Institute (HIRWI) believes in investing in our future helpers, healers, and professionals by improving their internship experience while collectively serving Victims of Crime through counseling, social services, advocacy, and care coordination. At HIR Wellness, we focus on more than an internship. HIRWI CEO & Founder, Lea S. Denny developed a mentorship process that teaches students to recognize their strengths and growth areas, including attending to their healing process, before entering the workforce. HIRWI teaches self-healing strategies, promote self-compassion, and most of all, provide them opportunities to learn and grow how to integrate these practices. These life-skills allow them to understand how they must buffer to prevent vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue. HIRWI focuses on personal and professional growth because the next generation of carers must know how to heal holistically. This experience can be transformational and generational for interns.

Interns receive their practicum, internship, or field placement hours by providing direct mental health services to victims of crime through our center.

To learn more about HIRWI students and Integrated Medicine Practice they experience:

Explore their testimonials and click on the "Meet our Interns" or "Integrated Medicine Practice" buttons below.

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Odessa Peters - 2020-2021 Intern

Meet our Interns

Integrated Medicine Practice

MENTORSHIP

Interns receive a unique opportunity to go beyond practicum and develop their skills as they are invested in personally through mentorship practice with our on-site field instructors.

A relationship is essential between mentor and mentee, fostering lifelong teachings and collaboration to grow in the field and beyond. Building one's professional capacity remains critical for long-term occupational satisfaction. Together we succeed.

Like plants, a team is a living collective that needs nurturing, pruning, and tending. Innovative training provides an opportunity to reframe existing teachings and introduce new ways to work stronger together. Our mentorship program prepares interns ready to collaborate, share ideas, and take on leadership roles in the workspaces they will go.