Virtual Events
Pedagogy & Practice
Pedagogy & Practice events are designed to facilitate collaboration and sharing of best practices across SHECP Member Schools. The focus of each event is chosen by consortium members and topic examples include how to prepare students for their summer internship, opportunities for undergraduate research, engaging program alumni as mentors for current students, and how students share their experience with the community, integrate the work into capstone courses or research, or reflect together when they return to campus.
Practitioner Insights
The Practitioner Insights series provides an opportunity for summer interns and all members of the SHECP community to hear from innovative and dynamic leaders doing anti-poverty work. Each year, the summer series includes at least four events featuring practitioners, including SHECP alumni, from across the country working to address a diverse set of poverty related issues. These events are part of the SHECP Summer Internship program but are open to the general community.
SHECP Internship Academy
All SHECP Summer Interns spend the first week of their 9-week internship participating in the virtual SHECP Internship Academy. The Academy serves to provide additional preparations for the interns to responsibly engage with host communities and to frame the upcoming internship within the larger academic context. The Academy includes both synchronous and asynchronous elements such as:
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Guided reflections to frame the upcoming internship
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Research and/or policy presentations related to poverty studies
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Introduction to Conflict Transformation microcourse
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Cohort discussions regarding living agreements and other expectations
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Additional trainings on professionalism, confidentiality, and respectful community engagement
The 2025 SHECP Internship Academy will be June 2–5. Several sessions will be open to the general public. Details coming soon.
Springboard Events
SHECP Springboard events are designed to begin a conversation with a virtual, Consortium-wide webinar designed to provide background on a topic and introduce unique perspectives. Individuals are then encouraged to continue the conversation within the own classroom or community. For each event, SHECP provides several questions or prompts as one way to continue the conversation.
Resilience & Childhood Poverty event – a discussion about how current research on resilience can inform our approach to mitigating the negative effects of childhood poverty
Language & Poverty event – a discussion about how the language surrounding poverty influences and complicates our daily work and is addressed in various fields of study
