Employment Aid Readiness Network

Employers

To see if your internship is eligible, complete these steps:

1. Register as an employer on Work and Learn Indiana
2. Create an internship posting
3. After selecting your internship is paid on the first page of details, under "would you like to utilize EARN Indiana funding?" select "yes"
   • This will bring up another prompt asking if your internship is going to use college or high school EARN funding
   • Choose whether the experience you are posting for is either a college experience or a high school experience (employers must submit two separate EARN applications if interested in hiring high school students and college students)
   • This will add a corresponding EARN Indiana Application section to your application. If you scroll to the top of the application, you will find it next to the Skills and Description tabs of the application. Fill out the entire internship application, including the EARN application tab, and then click "submit for review"

Once your position is approved to appear on our site, this triggers the submission of the EARN application to the Commission for Higher Education (CHE)

Once approved by CHE, you will receive an email asking you to submit state vendor forms and granting you access to the state's intern hour tracking tool, called ScholarTrack

Internship Eligibility Criteria

In order to receive matching funds, certain minimum criteria must be met:

• Internship must provide experiential learning
• Internship must be paid hourly
• Internship must be at least 8 weeks
• Intern must work 12 to 20 hours a week during academic year, August 16-April 26 (12 to 40 hours during summer April 27-August 15)
• Intern activities may not be political or sectarian
• No more than 25% of intern's work can be administrative in nature
• No more than 50% of your workforce may be interns
• Federal Work-Study funds or other grants may not be received for the internship position
• In order to be eligible for EARN Indiana, intern cannot be with same employer for more than one year/ 365 days (students eligible for four years total of EARN funds, two years of secondary, two years of post-secondary)

High School Experiences

High School Experiences must follow all of the above criteria, and in addition, the intern’s activities must align with the Next Level Jobs industries listed below:

• Advanced Manufacturing
• Building and Construction
• Health and Life Sciences
• IT and Business Services
• Transportation and Logistics
• Education
• Agriculture

Students

College/University

Find out if you're eligible to receive EARN Indiana funds by clicking on the EARN Indiana banner at the top of your student workspace and completing the short form. By answering just a few simple questions, you'll instantly learn your eligibility status.

College/University Student Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for an EARN Indiana internship, a student must:

• Be an Indiana resident
• Not have a bachelor’s degree prior to the term a student plans to work (however, an intern can work and qualify for EARN Indiana in the semester immediately following graduation)
• Be enrolled full time or part time at an eligible Indiana college or university and have an Expected Family Contribution (as determined by the FAFSA from the current academic year) less than or equal to $24,570

High School

Work with your school or career center counselor and work-based learning coordinator to determine EARN Indiana eligibility. A member of your educational institution must provide enrollment support.

High School Student Eligibility Criteria

To be eligible for an EARN Indiana internship, a student must:

• Be an Indiana resident
• Attend a secondary school in the state of Indiana