Four Social Work students from The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona Campus left the island last week for two-month internships in St Lucia and Dominica. the placements are sponsored by The Caribbean Support Initiative (CSI), an agency of the Bernard Van Leer (early childhood) Foundation and are pilot projects for a regional internship project being developed by the CSI. Two of the students, Sandra Latibeaudiere and Wendy Mclean are completing their Diploma in Social Work, the professional social work qualification available to persons with a first degree in a related discipline. The other two students, Marva Pickersgill and Monica Small, are in the Master of Social Work Programme. Both programmes are offered in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work at the UWI Mona Campus. The interns have been placed with two CSI-related agencies: The Christian Children’s Fund in Dominica and the Early Childhood Development Unit in St. Lucia. Both these agencies are involved in developing home-intervention projects in rural communities in St. Lucia and Dominica. They will be targeting at-risk parents/care-givers and their young children. They will work in the target communities to conduct baseline research for these projects and will also have specific agency assignments, which will expose them to community interventions as well as individual casework. This regional initiative is the result of the work done by a number of social work degree students, under the supervision of Social Work Lecturer Mrs. Aldene Shillingford, on a joint Bernard Van Leer and Environmental Foundation of Jamaica sponsored project in several inner city communities in Kingston. These projects were designed to strengthen community and parent participation in early childhood education.