Healing Action Network is seeking organizations interested in becoming Public Health AmeriCorps host site. This program is designed to provide strategic solutions to an organizations’ needs and to grow the public health workforce.
Members are recruited to serve for up to 1 year. In exchange for their service, members receive a modest living allowance and an education award to use towards post-secondary education or to pay back qualified federal student loans.
Members serve in either a full-time or part-time capacity at a partner organization that serves as a host site.
Public Health AmeriCorps members provide direct care services to their site such as crisis intervention and case management, as outlined in a service plan submitted by the site and approved by AmeriCorps
Inclusive of efforts to facilitate the collection of quantitative or qualitative data. The purpose of the data collection may be varied; however, these activities differ from community engagement insofar as the primary purpose is the planning of a data collection project or the actual collection of data rather than relationship-building, outreach, or dissemination of information.
Inclusive of any efforts to analyze or interpret data to inform program improvement or planning. Analysis of extant or administrative data, interpretation, and summarization of external data to guide ongoing or future projects. |
Inclusive of efforts to document, review, and improve upon existing internal agency processes. May be informed by activities in other categories.
Efforts to improve internal host site procedures for executing their strategic plan. Perform basic research and internal analysis, monitor or document organizational changes related to quality improvement, support or create internal communication channels.
Direct Services in a mental health organization encompass a range of interventions and supports provided directly to individuals in need. These services aim to improve mental health, enhance coping mechanisms, and promote overall well-being. Key components of Direct Services typically include:
Inclusive of any community engagement activities intended to strengthen awareness of a given issue and/or meaningful collaboration to strengthen implementation of a given program or initiative. Activities may focus on organizational partner engagement or individual community members and include efforts to empower the community to guide initiatives as well as those intended to inform the community.
Criteria for hosting a Healing Action Network Public Health AmeriCorps Member
An agency hosting a Public Health AmeriCorps member will pay a monthly fee for each month that the Public Health AmeriCorps member is serving with that subsite.
Determine the number of AmeriCorps Members you wish to host at your site. |
What is expected of a host organization?
What activities are viable for a member of the Public Health AmeriCorps program?
What members CAN do:
What members CANNOT do:
The following activities may not be done during AmeriCorps time or while wearing the AmeriCorps logo(s). On a member’s personal time when they are not wearing AmeriCorps logo(s) they may engage in these activities of their own free will:
Still have questions? Contact Libby Trammell at [email protected].
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St. Louis, MO 63139