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High Rocks Greenbrier County Health Alliance Partnership

The Greenbrier County Health alliance (GCHA) is sponsored by the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Center for Rural and Community Health with grant funding from West Virginia Clinical Translational Science Institute. The GCHA's mission is to empower all local communities in Greenbrier County to improve health through community action and innovative programming. An Alliance core planning group began meeting monthly in October 2014 to develop a shared process for networking collaboratively to define issues and consensus on intervention activities. The group agreed that interventions would intend to improve health and well-being of country residents by focusing on 4 major action areas: socioeconomic factors, physical environment, health behaviors and clinical partnerships. Simultaneously, the planning group developed an organizational structure to become a non-profit organization and received non-profit designation in November 2015. A newly established board of directors and 4 task force work plans have been defined to: (1) Expand the community ambassador program; (2) Increase capacity and create a network of supports to sustain evidence based self-management community workshops; (3) Develop a digital asset map of county health resources; (4) and Aggregate local foods to help meet local needs. A key component to the Alliance coordinated approach for the community health outreach is the use of community ambassadors. Ambassadors are identified because they have an interest in improving their communities’ health. In 2015, five communities participated by identifying local ambassadors who became trained to identify a local need and implement a mini-grant project. Mini-grant projects occurred across the county and these help define pathways for future coordination of grassroots engagement.

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Member Duties : • Inventory existing resources across the county and develop a digital asset map that highlights local opportunities for promoting health behaviors in every community • Expand the ‘community ambassador’ project to an additional 3 communities (8 communities total) and support ambassadors to represent their communities needs and provide solution-focused leadership to promote health behaviors • Increase capacity for providing community based self-management workshops and develop a network of referral linkages between clinical delivery and community service providers to optimize community capacity to address health related social needs • Identify opportunities, develop resources and plan production of local foods to help meet local need. • AmeriCorps training and responsibilities

Program Benefits : Childcare assistance if eligible , Living Allowance , Education award upon successful completion of service , Training , Health Coverage .

Terms :
Prohibits paid work outside of the sponsoring agency at any time , Permits attendance at school during off hours , Car recommended .

Service Areas :
Community Outreach , Health .

Skills :
Leadership , Education , Non-Profit Management , Community Organization , Communications , Writing/Editing .

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SUMMARY
Program Type:
AmeriCorps State / National

Program
High Rocks Greenbrier County Health Alliance Partnership

Program Start/End Date
09/16/2024 - 08/31/2025

Work Schedule	Full Time

Education level
Some college

Age Requirement
Minimum: 18 Maximum: 99

Program Locations	WEST VIRGINIA

Accepting Applications
From 07/15/2024 To 08/31/2025

Contact	Janet Swift
195 Thompson Rd
Hillsboro WV 24946
304-653-4891
www.highrocks.org

Listing ID	69587


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