Mallory Cooper of Salisbury has accepted the youth counselor internship with the Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s Stonewall Jackson Youth Development Center in Concord.

Cooper is a second-year criminal justice major at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College. She is one of two dozen North Carolina college, graduate and law students selected for 16-week spring internships with state agencies.

The N.C. State Government Internship Program was created in 1969. It is coordinated by the Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office of the Department of Administration.