The UNC Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG) Summer Graduate Internship Program in Implementation Practice is seeking two graduate students to join our summer internship program in 2025. Applications are due by Friday, March 14th at 11:59 pm ET. This program is designed to create a challenging and meaningful professional experience for the trainees that includes mentoring, networking, professional development, and experiential learning opportunities. Interns will benefit from exposure to implementation practice and research across diverse fields and in varied practice settings. This experience will provide knowledge and skill development to enhance and inform the interns' future academic and professional pursuits.

Qualified applicants should have some familiarity with implementation science principles and practices, but extensive background experience is not required. A strong interest in learning more about implementation science is required. Graduate students from any accredited college or university are welcome to apply.

Implementation Work at FPG

Using implementation science, best practices, and an equity lens, the Institute’s implementation work is active, applied, and facilitates improved outcomes for evidence-based practices. Our work is informed by research from the field of implementation as well as related fields, and projects use data to inform continuous improvement practices. Our capacity-building work is tailored and flexible to meet the needs of the communities we work in whether the work is statewide, within a governance structure, community-wide, or within a service delivery agency or school. FPG has three implementation workgroups—The Impact Center, the National Implementation Research Network (NIRN), and the Trohanis Technical Assistance Projects.