Come join the SVAS team! Sun Valley Adaptive Sports offers year-round internship opportunities for therapeutic recreation (TR) students as well as students in other recreation related fields. Interns receive hands-on experience working with children, adolescents, and adults with a variety of disabilities. Some interns will get the chance to work with service members who have been severely wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. Interns also help with research, participant assessments and tracking, and assist with program planning and execution. Best of all, they will have fun, make great friends, explore the great outdoors, and enjoy a life-changing experience. Great stipends available!

We follow the ATRA standards of practice and NCTRC internship guidelines. Our Internship supervisors are CTRS professionals. Seasonal activity description below:

SPRING/SUMMER

• Plan and participate in a specialized summer day camp “PACK” (Peak Adventure Camp for Kids). Activities include hiking, tennis, biking, martial arts, rock climbing, soccer, arts, canoeing, gardening, swimming and much more.
• Plan and assist in summer volunteer training.
• Plan and participate in Special Olympics swim team events.
• Plan and participate in “Higher Ground”, a therapeutic watersports program including, adaptive waterskiing, kayaking, canoeing, river rafting, wakeboarding, knee boarding, and tubing.
• Learn weekly progress notes, assessments and evaluations using theory based practice.

• Plan and participate in two “Higher Ground” Fly Fishing camps.
• Prepare for winter snowsports programming.
• Plan and participate in “Dreams Come True” a program for individual wounded warriors.
• Plan and assist in winter volunteer training and “Fresh Tracks” program.
• Plan and participate in Special Olympics bowling team events.
• Learn assessments, progress notes, and evaluations using theory based practice.

• Assist in adaptive ski and snowboard lessons at Sun Valley Resort.
• Plan and organize “Fresh tracks” local ski program.
• Assist in the planning process of community awareness event.
• Plan and participate in “Higher Ground”, a therapeutic wintersports program including, adaptive skiing, snowboarding, Nordic skiing, snow shoeing, and skating.
• Plan and participate in Special Olympics Alpine and Nordic team events.
• Plan and participate in backcountry adaptive skiing hut trip.
• Learn assessments, progress notes, and evaluations using theory based practice.

Our executive director and program director are always looking for bright, enthusiastic, mature, and motivated individuals of all levels of experience, background, and education. We can customize internships for students studying business, marketing, nonprofit management, fund raising, journalism, research, and grant writing. If you would like to join our fun and passionate team, contact us. Due to popularity of SVAS internships, we strongly advise sending in resumes and applications as soon as you feel interested.

Call Shauna or email today for more information (208) 726-9298 x 116 shauna@svasp.org