Prevention Program Coordinator - AmeriCorps Member

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Public Health AmeriCorps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services. AmeriCorps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, AmeriCorps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an AmeriCorps Member role –Prevention Program Coordinator – that supports the Population Health Department at Middletown site.

Terms & Program Benefits:

• One-year service term from September 3, 2024 thru August 31, 2025
• Serve a minimum of 32 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year
• $22,000 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
• An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff or volunteer position.

This is the opportunity for you if you:

• Possess a positive attitude
• Enjoy working with people
• Are extremely organized and pay great attention to detail
• Have a strong interest in data, health policy/public health
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

As a Prevention Program Coordinator for the Community Health Center, Inc., you will:

• Conduct monthly patient health education workshops; monitor the completion of pre-post surveys by workshop participants; and complete data entry for workshops and surveys.
• Track and document all completed patient engagement activities in patient’s electronic health record.
• Conduct outreach to patients who have the greatest number of open care gaps that remain unaddressed through population health campaigns (e.g., text campaigns, mailings) and one on one individual patient engagement (e.g., phone calls).
• Coordinate enhanced health promotion and prevention of disease through education and information organization wide.
• Conduct patient outreach that ensures collection of data directly from the patient regarding preventive screenings (where appropriate) or scheduling in person/virtual visits with provider, where needed.
• Create promotional content for preventive screening as well as patient education materials/pamphlets.
• Conduct outreach via tabling at health fairs to provide information about preventive screening.
• Coordinate special events to encourage completion of preventive screenings (eg, depression screening, cervical cancer screening, breast cancer screening, SDOH screening).
• Participate in Performance Improvement Committee Meetings and assist in monitoring follow up on action items related to cervical cancer screenings.

Qualifications:

• High school or equivalent required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and remain calm during a crisis
• Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC)
• Able to travel between CHC sites and in state

Preferred:

• Associate’s degree in public health, social work related field
• Experience and/or understanding of data analysis