Youth Healthcare Services Specialist - 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 – Youth Healthcare Services Specialist – that supports the School Based Health Centers (SBHC) primarily in Middletown, Meriden, and New Britain areas.

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:

• Are highly outgoing, friendly, enthusiastic, and energetic
• Enjoy working with others including children
• Are extremely organized and pay great attention to detail
• Have a strong interest in health care, public health
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

As a Youth Healthcare Services Specialist 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.
• Identify, design, coordinate and implement SBHC/community events and activities to promote health education as well as medical and BH services to potential patients.
• Provide patient navigation services that link patients receiving care at CHC main sites to care at school based sites.
• Support main site scheduling/rescheduling of dental patients following case management outreach.
• Develop and support a system to schedule eligible SBHC dental patients in need of routine follow up dental care.
• Provide outreach to youth via group settings or one on one individual patient education in various areas of dental health education and assistance for enrollment in SBHC/CHC.
• Research and create content for patient educations sessions, workshops and social activities also related to dental.
• Support establishment of dental services and enrollment in new districts (ie, Waterbury, Stratford, Ansonia).
• Participate in SBHC meetings to provide updates on engagement strategies and success of events, activities and workshops.

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
• Bilingual Spanish/English
• Knowledge of and/or experience in behavioral health
• Experience working with children
• Knowledge and understanding of crisis intervention strategies