Service
Interns serve full-time with agencies working for social change in LA. They hold positions with specified duties and responsibilities and receive appropriate training and supervision.
EUIP partners with different agencies around LA to provide interns with high-level, meaningful engagement with problems and solutions of social injustice. EUIP has partnered with agencies serving the homeless, the unemployed, abused children, at-risk youth, and persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Our current partners:
Chrysalis is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping economically disadvantaged and homeless individuals become self-sufficient through employment opportunities. Since 1984, Chrysalis has helped over 30,000 individuals change their lives through jobs.
Common Ground in Santa Monica is the only comprehensive HIV agency serving the west side of Los Angeles. Common Ground provides free HIV testing, needle exchange and other services.
St. Joseph Center is a multi-faceted social service agency located in the neighborhood of Venice Beach that serves very poor, as well as homeless, families and individuals. A significant presence on Los Angeles’s Westside through its 10 programs and eight different locations, St. Joseph Center responds to the wide-ranging needs of homeless and low-income families and individuals in the community.
Hillsides Education Center is a school for children with special needs that include emotional disturbance, a learning disability like attention deficit disorder, or other health impairments. Hillsides Education Center was founded to serve the special education needs of children at Hillsides, a residential center that creates safe places for children by treating abuse, neglect and mental illness; strengthening families; providing special education; and advocating for children’s rights.
Excel Academy is a charter school founded by Partnerships to Uplift Communities (PUC), a non-profit charter school management organization designed to significantly increase college entrance and graduation rates for underserved students in Los Angeles and the San Fernando Valley. PUC Schools was founded on a belief that superior schools build superior communities.