Below we have included links that may assist you in exploring career paths as Comparative Human Development majors. You will see that there are six groups of links: general job search links, links that are directly pertinent to the four concentration areas in Human Development , and links for less direct career options. Please make sure to scan through all six groups. As students of Comparative Human Development, you have acquired unmatched interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, and might be able to find exciting career opportunities in any of these groups.
General Career Resources:
- CAPS Careers In...
- http://www.hotjobs.com/
- http://www.jobbankusa.com
- http://www.jobtrak.com/
- www.jobhuntersbible.com
- USA Jobs: United States Federal Government Employee Site: http://usajobs.opm.gov/
For Life Course Development Concentrators:
Children and families:
- Administration for children and families: http://www.acf.hhs.gov/
- Center for early childhood: http://eci.uchicago.edu/
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development http://www.nichd.nih.gov/
- Society for Research in Child Development: http://www.srcd.org/
- Stand Up: http://www.standupforkids.org/
- Women, Infants, and Children http://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/
Youth :
- American Youth Policy Forum: http://www.aypf.org/
- National Organizations of Youth Development: http://www.ncfy.com/ydorgs2.htm
Aging :
- Administration on Aging: http://www.aoa.gov/
- Age Source Worldwide: http://www.aarp.org/research/agesource/
- Center on demography and economics of aging: http://www.spc.uchicago.edu/coa/
- National Institute on Aging: http://www.nia.nih.gov/
Education :
- American Association for Employment in Education: http://www.aaee.org/
- American Educational Association: http://128.205.200.126/aaee/edcand.shtml
- Carney Sandoe & Associates: http://www.csa-teach.com/
- Chicago Public Schools Site: http://www.cps.k12.il.us
- Education America: http://128.205.200.126/aaee/edcand.shtml
- Independent Schools Association of the Central States :http://www.isacs.org
- MDRC (non-profit, nonpartisan education and social policy research): http://www.mdrc.org/index.html
- National Association of Independent Schools: http://www.nais.org
- National Board Certification (teaching): http://www.nbpts.org/
- National Education Association: http://128.205.200.126/aaee/edcand.shtml
- Professions in Special Education: http://128.205.200.126/aaee/edcand.shtml
- Resources for Careers in Education: http://128.205.200.126/aaee/edcand.shtml
- Teach for America: http://www.teachforamerica.org/
For Clinical Ethnography and Mental Health Concentrators:
- American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/
- American Counseling Association: http://www.counseling.org/
- American Psychiatric Association: http://www.psych.org/
- National Alliance to end Homelessness: http://www.endhomelessness.org/
- National Association for Social Workers: http://www.naswdc.org/
- National Coalition for Homelessness: http://nationalhomeless.org/
- National Institute of Mental Health: http://www.nimh.nih.gov/
- National Mental Health Association http://www.nmha.org/
- SocialService.com: http://www.socialservice.com/
Here are some local clinical settings which might be of interest to students who want to direct experience in counseling:
- Selections from Health & Human Services: http://www.lincolnnet.net/health/
- Alliance for the Mentally Ill of the South Suburbs
- Blue Cap
- Blue Cap Infant Parent Center
- Club Adult Day Care
- Elisabeth Ludeman Developmental Center
- Family and Mental Health Services Southwest
- Happiday Center
- Illinois Mentor/Mentor Clinical Care
- LARC
- New Hope Center Inc.
- Park Lawn Workshop
- South Suburban School for Special Education
- Southwest Community Services/Tinley Park Workshop
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center
- Aunt Martha's http://www.auntmarthas.org/
- Barat Campus of DePaul University Wellness Center
- Barrington Youth and Family Service St. Francis Hospital
- Children's Memorial Hospital Thresholds North
- Community Alternatives Unlimited: http://www.cau.org
- Community Counseling Centers of Chicago Trilogy, Inc.
- Community Counseling centers of Chicago: http://www.c4chicago.org/
- Hazelden Chicago University of Chicago Career Development Center
- Loyola also has a good listing of fieldwork placement sites and lists some schools as well: http://www.luc.edu/socialwork/academics_fieldwork.shtml
- Metropolitan Family Services: http://www.metrofamily.org
- Northwestern University Counseling & Psychological Services
- Northwestern University Women's Center
- Portage Cragin Mental Health Center
- SSA's website has a very good list of locations where they place their students: http://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/programs/clifieldplac.shtml.
- St. Francis Hospital
- The Family Institute at Northwestern University
- Thresholds Psychiatric Rehabilitation Centers: www.thresholds.org/home_page_2.htm
- Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center
- Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center
- University of Chicago Career Development Center
- Warming House Youth Center
- Warming House Youth Center
- Youth Service of Glenview/Northbrook
For Cultural Psychology & Psychological Anthropology Concentrators:
- American Anthropological Association: http://www.aaanet.org/
- American Psychological Association: http://www.apa.org/
- American Sociological Association: http://www.asanet.org/index.ww
- Anthropology Resources on the Internet: http://www.aaanet.org/resinet.htm
- Jobs in Psychology: http://jobsinpsychology.com/
- PsycCareers (APA's online Career Center): http://www.psyccareers.com/
- Social Psychology Network: http://www.socialpsychology.org/career.htm
- Social Research Association: http://www.the-sra.org.uk/
- The Socio Web: http://www.socioweb.com/sociology-jobs
For Comparative Behavioral Biology Concentrators:
- American Museum of Natural History: http://www.amnh.org/
- Animal Behavior Research Group: http://behavior.uchicago.edu/
- Argonne National Laboratories : http://www.anl.gov/
- BIOSIS: http://www.biosis.org/
- Brookfield Zoo: http://www.brookfieldzoo.org/
- Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research (CIHDR): http://cihdr.uchicago.edu/
- Committee on Evolutionary Biology: http://pondside.uchicago.edu/ceb/
- Endangered Species: http://www.umich.edu/%7Eesupdate/websites.htm
- Environmental Protection Agency: http://www.epa.gov/
- Howard Hughes Institute : http://www.hhmi.org/
- Institute for Mind and Body: http://imb.uchicago.edu/
- Lincoln Park Zoo: http://www.lpzoo.org/index2.html
- Montgomery Slatkin's Group @ UC Berkeley: http://ib.berkeley.edu/labs/slatkin
- Morphometrics at Stony Brook : http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/
- National Science Foundation: http://www.nsf.gov/
- ScienceCareers.org: http://sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/
- Sigma Xi: http://www.sigmaxi.org/
- Society for Conversation Biology Network: http://conbio.net/
- The Field Museum: http://www.fieldmuseum.org/
- Tree of Life: http://phylogeny.arizona.edu/tree/phylogeny.html
- World Directory of Primatologists: http://pin.primate.wisc.edu/idp/wdp/entry/48
Less Direct Career Paths:
Jobs @ Non-Profit Organizations :
- CAPS (non-profit & human rights): https://caps.uchicago.edu/resourcecenter/nonprofit.html
- AIDS Action: http://aidsaction.org/
- AmeriCorps national Community Service: http://www.americorps.org/
- Earth Watch: http://www.earthwatch.org/
- Five College Program in Peace & World Security Studies: http://pawss.hampshire.edu/
- Food First: http://www.foodfirst.org/
- From Career Services at Tufts University: Peace and Justice:
http://careers.tufts.edu/students/career_research/peace_justice.htm - Idealist org (Action Without Borders): http://www.idealist.org/
- National Alliance to End Homelessness: http://www.endhomelessness.org/
- National Coalition for the Homeless: http://www.nationalhomeless.org/
- Non-profit Career Network: http://www.nonprofitcareer.com/
- Peace Corps: http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm
- World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/
- Yale University's Career Center: Social Services and Advocacy:
http://www.yale.edu/career/students/crib_sheets/social_services/jobs_internships.html
Other :
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention: http://www.cdc.gov/
- Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Minority Health: http://www.cdc.gov/omh
- Center for the Promotion of Mental Health in Juvenile Justice: http://www.promotementalhealth.org/
- Homeless Policy Academies (U.S. DHHS site): http://www.hrsa.gov/homeless/main_pages/links.htm
- National Center for Juvenile Justice and Mental Health: http://www.ncmhjj.com/
- National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism: http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/
- National Institute on Drug Abuse: http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDAHome.html
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: http://www.samhsa.gov/index.aspx
- UNAIDS: http://www.unaids.org/en/default.asp
- United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs: http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/
- Urban Institute: http://www.srcd.org/
- World Bank: http://www.worldbank.org/
Posted August 8, 2006