MFRI offers many opportunities for students to gain professional skills as interns, student employees and research assistants. The students who engage with military and veteran families at MFRI come from a variety of backgrounds, such as pharmacy, engineering, interior design, communications and more. Involving students in projects that enhance their professional and academic skills helps prepare them for future endeavors.
– Our Family Support team has two students working on specific projects. One student focuses on communication and logistics for Star Behavioral Health Providers and the other collects data for the Measuring Communities project.
– Our External Relations team intern researched, wrote and produced an educational video about MFRI’s collaboration with Joining Community Forces Indiana and the Indiana legal community. She also helped to research updates to MFRI’s How to Help series and provided communication support for MFRI.
– Two Education and Employment team interns are focused on processing data and assisting with evaluations of past Focus Forward Fellowship cohorts.
– Our Research director coordinates 13 undergraduate students, all of whom participate in telephone interviews for MFRI’s Family Journeys project. Most of these students also gain skills coding qualitative data while some assist with logistics and data management.