25C - AGMT FOR SANTA AN WATERSHED PROJECT

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Grant Agreement No. 4600011889 Page 14 of32 Deliverables: ❑ Notice of training events ❑ Roster of participants ❑ Copies of event -specific materials Activity 17 Community Engagement Interns Program This program will support water -related overburdened community engagement internships for students from the CSU, UC and community college campuses of the watershed. The program, administered by the CSU DACC, will seek applications from public agencies and environmental or social justice nongovernmental organizations for the services of pairs of interns to assist with community engagement or public affairs work related to disadvantaged communities; approximately 20 interns per year. The application process will includes a detailed description from each applicant about the specific tasks they will assign to the interns. Each organization will request the services of two interns from CSU to assist with community engagement, public affairs or community education activities. Public affairs may include marketing of community programs and events. Community education activities may include preparing community members to participate effectively in water planning to the benefit of their communities. The intern program will model an existing program and capacity of CSU, funded by the US Department of Agriculture. Interns will be selected from the CSU campuses (San Bernardino and Fullerton), the UC campuses (Riverside and Irvine), and the many community colleges in the Santa Ana River watershed. Efforts will be made to recruit interns who are themselves from the watershed overburdened communities. Upon selection and completion of an intern orientation, the internship provides for 300 graduate student internship hours or 350 undergraduate student internship hours to support grant activities. Interns will be mentored by CivicSpark Water Fellows, and supervised in their internship duties by their home institution. The intern human resources, payroll and other administrative supervision are housed at the CSU. In addition to their paid hours, interns will each have a $500 supply/travel budget. Half -way through the internships, the intern will produce an interim activity report. Upon completion of the paid internship, the student will develop a final activity report. The final reports are posted on-line as a part of the CSU Library special collection. The cohort of interns will be mentored by CivicSpark Water Fellows, housed at SAWPA, fortrainings and networking meetings, related to IRWM community engagement efforts. This activity provides multiple types of capacity building in the watershed: by supporting students, supporting organizations, and by creating new sustainable and contiguous networks of familiarity between organizations, and between communities and the water organizations. Deliverables: ❑ Copies of applications from selected agencies and NGCs that express interest in intern services to support community members ❑ Roster of participating interns ❑ Logs of all intern hours served and activities ❑ Interim and final reports of interns 25C-25