The Latino Heritage Internship Program (LHIP), created by the National Park Service (NPS) and administered in partnership with Environment for the Americas(EFTA), is designed to provide internship opportunities to young adults in diverse professional fields in the National Park Service. The program helps raise awareness of our national parks and historic sites, their accessibility, and the need for the Latino community’s involvement in their preservation and in meaningful and relevant science-based internships.
For this purpose, highly motivated undergraduate and graduate students will be selected to work alongside NPS historians, interpreters, archaeologists, architects, researchers, biologists, communicators, and other professionals in different national parks, offices, and historical sites throughout the nation. Students will have substantive assignments in their areas of study, work closely with NPS staff day-to-day, and receive additional mentoring and support through the program partners.
LHIP is a collaboration between NPS and EFTA. Programs such as LHIP allow the NPS to invest in cost-efficient strategies that introduce students to career fields through internships at national parks. These opportunities help entry-level young professionals enter the workforce.
Program goals and objectives:
- Introduces young adults to career fields through career developmental internship opportunities in the NPS with an emphasis on natural and cultural resource research and management, interpretation, public affairs.
- Develops mission critical internship projects that support the NPS goals and objectives at national parks and offices.
- Collaborates with Latino conservation organizations to help expand NPS outreach into Latino communities nationally and develop sustainable relationships.
- Help to establishes a pipeline for converting talented Latino students into career positions in the NPS.
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