UVU Wellness Programs Internships

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General Information

• This internship is located on UVU’s main campus.
• It is a paid internship ($12.50 per hour).
• One semester of internship is equivalent to 2 internship credits.
• Interns will work one of two schedules for a total of 10 hours per week. The available schedules are Monday and Wednesday or Tuesday and Thursday from 9am to 2pm or from 10am to 3pm.

What You’ll Do

• You will plan and implement our weekly events, including Munchie Monday, Tasty Tuesday, Wellness Wednesday, and Thinking Thursday.
• You will provide wellness coaching to individual clients. We offer 15 different coaching programs, including intuitive eating, nutrition strategies, meal planning, plant-based nutrition, coping with celiac disease, sleep, social wellness, physical fitness, making exercise a habit, stress less, live happy, blood pressure, preparing for pregnancy, and running for beginners.
• You will gain public speaking experience by providing classroom presentations on a variety of health topics, including sexual health, alcohol and tobacco, intuitive eating, general nutrition, disordered eating, the 8 dimensions of wellness, stress, and sleep.
• You will choose a health topic, create an educational booth about your topic, and present your booth at the campus health and wellness fair once each semester.
• You will gain skills in social promotion by creating health education materials and social media posts.
• You will perform monthly health screenings, including body composition and blood pressure assessments.
• You will evaluate events.
• You will have the opportunity to help our dietitian with the monthly healthy cooking demo.

Our Services

• We have massage chairs in our office, which are $2 for 15 minutes or free during finals week and the first Friday of the month.
• We have a Fit 3D machine. A single body composition scan is $6.
• We have a stress reduction room available on a first-come, first-served basis.
• We have a dietitian. The first consultation is free, every appointment after that is $10.
• We offer weekly mindfulness workshops, including a sound bath once per semester.
• We walk a mile every Wednesday at 1pm. All students, faculty, and staff are welcome to join.

Email [email protected] with additional questions.