Each site has a trained supervisor who directs and supports the student s experience and engages in theological reflection with the student. Internships should be designed to teach students to reflect critically on the meaning and practice of ministry, and therefore include mandatory weekly one-hour sessions between student and supervisor. To complement this learning, interns are also enrolled in a field-related Practicum course at the Divinity School. They are an integral part of the YDS curriculum. If what you want is to hire a YDS student as an employee, please contact Doreen Generoso in the Financial Aid Office.
Effective supervision is key to the success of any supervised ministry.
Since this often poses a financial difficulty for students, YDS offers grants to its part-time interns to help offset their loss of income. Each site is asked to contribute to a pool from which grants are disbursed to students. The contribution is payable in two equal installments at the beginning of each semester. The remainder is used to subsidize internships at sites that do not otherwise have the resources to participate in the program. Once I have allocated the entire pool of grant funding, I can no longer make subsidies available, and frequently this means that students cannot then consider sites that are unable to make a full contribution.