Students and faculty advisers select three field placements, based on students' specific interests and career goals. The Fieldwork Pro Seminar course prepares students for the fieldwork experience. Through on-site supervised training, students learn to apply classroom theory to practice and to develop their capacities as advocates. Students meet individually or in small groups with fieldwork advisers to learn how their individual experience relates to the larger arena of advocacy in which they are working The Capstone Project, in the final year of study, may build upon the third fieldwork placement and relate to the student's chosen area of advocacy specialization.

Sarah Lawrence's location in Westchester County - just north of New York City and adjacent to New Jersey and Connecticut - provides students with a broad range of settings from which to choose fieldwork placements during the academic year. Students may also arrange summer placements in geographic areas where they intend to work after graduation. Students select placement sites from a large database of previous internships or may develop new internship experiences.

Recent Health Advocacy Program Internships:

• Actors Fund of America/Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center
• American Cancer Society
• Andrus Children's Center, Julia Dykman Andrus Memorial
• Animal Medical Center
• Beth Israel Medical Center
• Breast Examination Center of Harlem
• Brookdale University Hospital & Medical Center/HIV/AIDS Center
• Brooklyn Hospital Center
• Center for Medical Consumers
• Children's Defense Fund/Immigration Project
• Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health/Center for the Psychosocial Study of Health and Illness
• Congresswoman Nita Lowey
• Consumers Union
• Emergingmed.com
• Encore Plus YWCA
• FEGS/Behavioral and Health Related Services
• FRIA (Friends and Relatives of Institutionalized Aged, Inc.)
• Go Girls! (Giving Our Girls Inspiration & Resources for Lasting Self-Esteem)
• Greenwich Hospital
• Hackensack Medical Center-Institute for Bio Medical Research
• Health Source / Hudson Health Plan
• Hope House, Inc. (A shelter for battered women)
• Hospital for Special Surgery
• Jewish Community Relations Council
• Jewish Home and Hospital (Long Term Care)
• Lawrence Hospital
• Long Island Jewish Medical Center/Health Services Library
• Managed Care Interface
• March of Dimes Resource Center
• Massachusetts General Hospital
• Medicare Rights Center
• Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
• Mount Sinai Caregiver and Professional Partnership
• Mount Sinai Medical Center
• National Council for Research on Women (NCRW)
• Naturopathic Medical (Naturopathic Physician, Nutritional Therapy, Herbal Therapy, Homeopathy)
• New York Presbyterian Hospital [Columbia, Weill Cornell and Weill Cornell Westchester Divisions]
• New York State Assembly Health Committee
• New York University School of Medicine, Center for Immigration Health
• Office of Inspector General/Office of Evaluation and Inspections/DHHS
• Planned Parenthood
• Providence ElderPlace (Seattle)
• Regence Blue Cross Blue Shield of Oregon
• S.L.E. Lupus Foundation
• Saint Joseph's Hospital Medical Center
• St. Luke's -Roosevelt Hospital
• St. Rita's Center for Immigrant & Refugee Services
• St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center (NYC)
• State University of New York Downstate Medical Center
• University Hospital/Stony Brook
• University of Massachusetts Memorial Medical Center
• VA Hudson Valley Health Care System
• Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services
• Westchester Medical Center
• White Plains Hospital
• William W. Bacchus Hospital (CT)
• Yale New Haven Hospital