{"id":564,"date":"2021-08-31T11:12:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=564"},"modified":"2021-08-31T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T18:12:55","slug":"internship-helped-improve-my-communication-skills-and-ability-to-adapt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2021\/08\/31\/internship-helped-improve-my-communication-skills-and-ability-to-adapt\/","title":{"rendered":"Internship helped improve my communication skills and ability to adapt"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi again! As my summer internship at the\u00a0OSU\u00a0Extension office\u00a0in Tillamook County\u00a0comes to an\u00a0end,\u00a0I\u2019ve had time to learn and grow. Getting to experience a job working\u00a0for\u00a0Extension has shown me how broad the areas that\u00a0Extension covers are. Working to serve the community also taught me different skills and helped me meet my summer learning objectives.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

My two biggest objectives were to improve my communication skills and\u00a0increase my\u00a0career awareness. With the different assignments I had\u00a0\u2013\u00a0writing social media blurbs, sending emails, speaking with families at community events, and leading activities for the\u00a0Juntos\u00a0Afuera\u00a0camp\u00a0\u2013\u00a0I have been able to improve my communication skills in\u00a0multiple\u00a0ways. By observing different members of the office and meeting health workers in the community I was also able to get career awareness and learn the importance of\u00a0the\u00a0roles in extension.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Kilchis Point Reserve in Tillamook County. Photo by Crystal Hernandez.<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

A different skill that I wasn\u2019t expecting to learn was the ability to adapt. Having so many factors that could change made it important to be flexible in order to get tasks done. During my internship, this came into play with our second planned family night for Juntos Afuera. It was created with the help of the Tillamook County Community Health Center to create a space where Spanish-speaking families could come together to enjoy food and music with the option to get a COVID-19 vaccine. With cases rising due to the delta variant, the event had to be changed to a drive-through where families still got to enjoy food, music and have the opportunity to get vaccinated from the comfort of their cars. We decided to adapt instead of canceling because providing families with information and vaccines is important.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Extension serves its community and this internship taught me the value of connecting with people. The events that were created were possible because of the collective help of multiple people, not just the work of one.\u202f<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hi again! As my summer internship at the\u00a0OSU\u00a0Extension office\u00a0in Tillamook County\u00a0comes to an\u00a0end,\u00a0I\u2019ve had time to learn and grow. Getting to experience a job working\u00a0for\u00a0Extension has shown me how broad the areas that\u00a0Extension covers are. Working to serve the community also taught me different skills and helped me meet my summer learning objectives.\u00a0 My two… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,85,17,16],"tags":[81,86,87,25],"class_list":["post-564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-juntos","category-open-campus","category-oregon-coast","category-tillamook-county","tag-crystal-hernandez","tag-juntos","tag-open-campus","tag-tillamook-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=564"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/564\/revisions\/579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}