To join the Public Health AmeriCorps program, check out the states below for opportunities with different organizations. You can click on the organization names to find more details, like the job board or application link, and contact the recruitment lead using the email or phone number provided in the listing for more information.
Alabama
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Baltimore Corps, Inc.
Baltimore Community Health Corps
Contact: americorps@baltimorecorps.org | 443-640-8904
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Pathways members in Baltimore, Maryland at community based partner sites. Throughout their service year members will increase the quality of care and access for underserved populations across the city. Members will serve on one of four tracks working to reduce the impacts of trauma and COVID-19 while also increasing organizational capacity at their service site to help ensure Baltimore's most vulnerable populations receive culturally informed services and continue to have access to quality health care and programs in their communities.
Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) - National Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: HR@bpsos.org | 703-538-2190
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with scheduling vaccine appointments, referring clients to vaccine sites and health services, finding transportation, accessing language resources, and address other vaccine-related needs. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health. The project will reach over 315,000 Asian Americans (AAs) residing in urban and rural areas across six states.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Alaska
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest
Contact: recruitment@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Public Health AmeriCorps - American Red Cross
Contact: matthew.martinez@redcross.org | 310-629-5149
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Arizona
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
BE SAGE: COVID-19 Mitigation for Vulnerable Early Childcare
Contact: sage@asu.edu, jaguil56@asu.edu, jjimen34@asu.edu | 602-496-2011
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be helping promote healthy habits and physical activities to 3-5-year-old children around the Valley (in Arizona) through their garden BE SAGE curriculum. They will also help with data collection and data entry. The program is only recruiting full-time Arizona State University students who will need to enroll in their HCR 498 course.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Northern Arizona University Center for Service and Volunteerism
Northern Arizona University
Contact: americorps@nau.edu | 928-523-3560
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support organizations by delivering training in public health topics to increase health knowledge and address social and structural determinants of health. Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve these Arizona counties: Apache, Coconino Mohave, Navajo, Cochise, Gila, Graham, Greenlee, La Paz, Maricopa, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz, Yavapai, and Yuma.
Prescott College
AZ Serve: Public Health Corps
Contact: americorps@arizonaserve.org | 520-329-7613
Arizona Serve of Prescott College specializes in Experiential Service Learning. Public Health AmeriCorps roles will fill the gaps within local health departments, schools, and nonprofits working towards health equity. The program specializes in working with public health, social work, and counseling students who often are required to complete an unpaid internship and bolsters these experiences with AmeriCorps stipends and education awards to remove barriers to participation. The program also works with passionate community members who are looking to shift their careers into public health and provides them with valuable career pathways. In the end, members are connected with transformative community projects to fight poverty.
West Valley Health Equity
West Valley Health Equity
Contact: admin@wvhealthequity.com | 623-400-8881
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide health education, mental health education, and emotional regulation skill building in Maricopa County, Arizona. AmeriCorps members will help increase scores on the AZ Self-Sufficiency Matrix in the areas of substance use (decreased use), mental health and social connections.
Arkansas
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Our House, Inc.
Our House, Inc. II
Contact: paige.krueger@ourhouseshelter.org | 501-374-7383
Public Health AmeriCorps members will address the mental and physical health needs of over 600 adults and children in Little Rock, Arkansas, playing a critical role in helping families and individuals move toward increased empowerment and health. All aspects of health will be addressed as members support uninsured and insured individuals with barriers to health access, completing health screenings and referrals, providing mental health support through individual and group therapy, and assistance with benefits.
California
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) - National Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: HR@bpsos.org | 703-538-2190
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with scheduling vaccine appointments, referring clients to vaccine sites and health services, finding transportation, accessing language resources, and address other vaccine-related needs. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health. The project will reach over 315,000 Asian Americans (AAs) residing in urban and rural areas across six states.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
iFoster
PHA TAY AmeriCorps
Contact: pha@ifoster.org | 530-550-9635
iFoster’s public health career pathway, PHA TAY AmeriCorps, provides job placement to current and former foster youth, along with supportive services, while directly linking thousands of vulnerable and low income patients to needed medical care. Anchored in iFoster’s jobs program, which has been evaluated by Children’s Bureau as a promising practice for foster youth employment, iFoster, in partnership with local Federally Qualified Health Centers, will provide professional skills training and paid work experience to enable foster youth to achieve living-wage public health careers. At the same time, these youth will provide the capacity to address the catastrophic shortage of healthcare workers.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Contact: cece@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
Los Angeles County
Reducing COVID-19 Disparities in Los Angeles County
Contact: scipres2@ph.lacounty.gov | 213-549-2348
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers and engage in community outreach, health education, and resource sharing in the most highly impacted communities in Los Angeles County, California. Members will improve health outcomes around COVID-19 and non-COVID-related health conditions among vulnerable populations.
The Arc of The United States
Health and Fitness for All
Contact: Mauger@thearc.org | 202-534-3730
Public Health AmeriCorps members will receive training in the HealthMatters™ curriculum to deliver health education, nutrition training, and physical activity classes to adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in California.
The Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero (Clinica Romero)
Clinica Monsenor Oscar A. Romero II
Contact: aalbarracin@clinicaromero.com | 213-989-7700 Ext. 2760
Public Health AmeriCorps members serve as Community Health Promotoras and will be responsible for supporting community members by raising health awareness and well-being through outreach and engagement events. They will build and maintain broad relationships in the community to promote healthy behaviors and provide invaluable resources to improve health outcomes, and educate and advocate for better results for historically disenfranchised and underserved populations in LA County, CA. AmeriCorps members will increase access to preventative and primary medical, dental, and behavioral health care services by participating in or organizing at least three community events monthly including health fairs and patient education classes.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Health Federation of Philadelphia
National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship
Contact: sdatta@healthfederation.org | 215-268-3672
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide public health services including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to care, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.
LA Works, Inc.
Citizen Action AmeriCorps
Contact: phac@laworks.com | 323-224-6510
Public Health AmeriCorps members will help meet public health needs of local communities by providing needed capacity and support to state and local public health settings with the goal of advancing more equitable health outcomes for underserved communities. Focus areas include health equity, COVID-19 support, access to services and reducing barriers to care, and behavioral health. Members will serve in the Southern California region, in and around Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire. Member roles may include: physical and mental health education and awareness, conducting needs assessments and focus groups, emotional regulation skill building, crisis response, capacity building, community outreach, and health and social services navigation.
Reach Out West End
Reach Out CHW Outreach Program
Contact: shermineh@we-reachout.org | 951-335-0092
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide screening for social determinants of health, case management, resource navigation, outreach, and education while embedded at Federally Qualified Health Centers and public health clinics in Inland Empire region of Southern California, including Riverside and San Bernardino counties. AmeriCorps members will receive Community Health Worker training and work with local partners to help communities respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Safe Passages
Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: connect@safepassages.org | 510-817-4625
Public Health AmeriCorps members are an integral part of the Public Health and Wellness Team within Safe Passages. Members are part of a team that will evaluate, design, present, recommend, and disseminate culturally appropriate information and materials about public and nongovernmental programs and services to the communities of Alameda County. This may include participating in workgroups to prepare materials, conducting in-person community outreach, facilitating healthcare and social service linkages with community members, conducting one-on-one conversations as needed, and promoting messaging at public events to present information effectively.
Sewa International, Inc.
Sewa Mental Health Program
Contact: 408-821-7874
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide preventive, awareness, and first response activities related to mental health for youth and adults (11 to 75 years) in four counties of California.
Colorado
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Equal Heart
Equal Heart Public Health
Contact: publichealth@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will focus on serving community programs that increase health outcomes by providing increased supplies of healthy food, better access to medical resources, and targeted information to the community. Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Metro Volunteers
SPARK HEALTH Corps
Contact: Kgroen@sparkthechangecolorado.org | 720-420-3216
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide Tier 1 and Tier 3 mental wellness counseling and education to vulnerable K-12 students at public charter schools throughout Colorado. AmeriCorps members will increase the number of students reporting a change or intent to change behavior to improve their mental health.
Trailhead Institute
Colorado Public Health Works
Contact: workforce@trailhead.institute | 970-648-0460
Public Health AmeriCorps members will receive hands-on training at approved host sites, stipends and living allowances, and an opportunity to become certified as community health workers. Individuals seeking a pathway to a career in public health are encouraged to participate. Colorado Public Health Works provides a year of professional experience in the field of public health for people in Colorado to increase capacity. Activities that members may participate in include coordinating care; providing case management support; assisting individuals and communities in navigating health and social service systems; performing cultural mediation among individuals, communities, and health and social service systems; providing culturally appropriate health education, information and promotion for individuals and communities; and implementing individual and community assessments.
Connecticut
Community Health Center, Inc.
Healthy Communities
Contact: porterr@chc1.com | 475-355-1229
This Public Health AmeriCorps program, Healthy Communities, is designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, and linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities 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 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 health awareness and health services.
Epilepsy Foundation New England, Inc.
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Contact: jganz@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. There will be an opportunity to build connections with people living with epilepsy, provide them with the support they need for themselves and their families, and link them to community-based service providers that can help with food, transportation, housing, and other critical needs. Full-time members can earn certifications as a Community Health Worker and in Seizure First Aid, and have other benefits such as engaging in a flexible schedule, health insurance, and professional development assistance.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Health360
Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps (HMA-PHA)
Contact: wolf@health360.org | 203-788-7349
Healthy Minds Alliance AmeriCorps members will serve with crisis call centers throughout the country, to provide expanded support to meet challenges faced by these centers after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline shifted to the 3-digit number 988. AmeriCorps members are trained in evidence-informed crisis intervention and suicide prevention, to provide direct and immediate support to individuals accessing the local crisis call center’s suicide prevention calls, texts, and chats.
Delaware
Health Federation of Philadelphia
National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship
Contact: sdatta@healthfederation.org | 215-268-3672
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide public health services including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to care, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey- Camden
AmeriCorps Rutgers Camden FY2022
Contact: PHAmeriCorps@camden.rutgers.edu | 856-225-2192
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve the City of Camden and the Delaware Valley Region in New Jersey through capacity building efforts. AmeriCorps members will focus on public health promotion, community education, and direct service activities related to healthy futures.
District of Columbia
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Latin American Youth Center
LAYC National Direct AmeriCorps
Contact: jennifer.flores@layc-dc.org | 202-319-2225
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote interventions and education efforts to increase awareness related to HIV/STIs, sexual health, harm reduction, and food/nutrition within Washington, DC and Prince George's County, Maryland. AmeriCorps members will conduct and attend outreach events and implement educational public health services.
Florida
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Collier Health Services, Inc.
Collier Health Services, Inc. dba Healthcare Network
Contact: HResources@healthcareswfl.org | 239-658-3165
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Referral Members alongside a diverse group of Healthcare Network Community team members. They will support the program in Collier County, with an emphasis on serving underserved populations to alleviate any potential healthcare disparities; assist in cultivating strong relationships with community members and healthcare providers; provide access to care by sharing the benefit of health and dental care and scheduling medical and dental appointments through referrals with Healthcare Network providers; and arrange transportation or other services as may be required by patients or potential patients.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
The Florida Coalition to End Homelessness
Homeless Healthcare Leadership Academy
Contact: lsacino@outlook.com | 321-258-1849
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide resource navigation, homeless services training, certification, and career training to 18-24-year-olds experiencing homelessness. AmeriCorps members will improve access to healthcare through housing and health services, improve the mental well-being through employment and training services, and increase organizations' capacity by increasing healthcare participation in the corresponding homeless Continuums of Care.
Georgia
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) - National Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: HR@bpsos.org | 703-538-2190
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with scheduling vaccine appointments, referring clients to vaccine sites and health services, finding transportation, accessing language resources, and address other vaccine-related needs. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health. The project will reach over 315,000 Asian Americans (AAs) residing in urban and rural areas across six states.
Dekalb County Board of Health
DCBOH Public Health
Contact: sedessie.spivey@dph.ga.gov | 404-294-3740
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work with DeKalb County Board of Health leaders to learn how to manage and operate several programs housed in one of four locations in DeKalb County, Georgia. AmeriCorps members will provide capacity, support, and increased awareness of COVID-19 testing and vaccinations to support equitable health outcomes and COVID recovery for underserved communities.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Contact: cece@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
One World Link
OWL Public Health Corps
Contact: Ncotton@oneworldlink.org | 404-447-3544
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide community health outreach and support as well as recruit, train, and develop additional volunteers, with a special emphasis on those who have historically not had access to public health in Central Georgia - including Bibb, Peach, Baldwin, Hancock, Jones, and Houston counties. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge among communities served and help public health organizations improve organizational efficiency and program reach.
Guam
Department of Public Health & Social Services
Public Health AmeriCorps Centralized Call Center
Contact: rojuna.selvidge@dphss.guam.gov | 671-922-2549
Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate communities about the programs and services administered by Department of Public Health and Social Services (DPHSS), improving access to medical care and other essential services. AmeriCorps members will provide accurate, timely, and updated information for individuals to increase their knowledge of available public health programs and services that would help them make informed decisions to improve overall health and well-being.
Hawaii
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Public Health AmeriCorps - American Red Cross
Contact: matthew.martinez@redcross.org | 310-629-5149
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Equal Heart
Equal Heart Public Health
Contact: publichealth@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will focus on serving community programs that increase health outcomes by providing increased supplies of healthy food, better access to medical resources, and targeted information to the community. Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Idaho
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Public Health AmeriCorps - American Red Cross
Contact: matthew.martinez@redcross.org | 310-629-5149
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Idaho State University
Gem State Public Health
Contact: GemState@isu.edu | 208-282-4436
Public Health AmeriCorps members help local nonprofit organizations increase organizational capacity and are often hired by their host site after completion of their service term. Members are given the opportunity to become certified suicide prevention and interventionists by participating in ASIST training. Through this program, members will increase the capacity of and for public health services offered to communities through collaboration and partnerships. This service experience will help members learn more about public health careers through the Gem State Public Health program at the Institute of Rural Health.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest
Contact: recruitment@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
Illinois
Association House of Chicago
Association House of Chicago
Contact: myrodriguez@associationhouse.org | 773-772-7170
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide education, training, counseling, coaching, and service navigation through multiple programs in Chicago, Illinois. AmeriCorps members will improve community health and increase participant health and health knowledge in Cook County.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Gardeneers
Healthy Kids, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities
Contact: leah@gardeneers.org | 847-800-1832
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed in a handful of schools, primarily in Chicago’s South and West Sides, where they will serve alongside an experienced Gardeneers’ Garden Educator. Their role will be to assist in providing hands-on gardening education for students, turning the garden into a lively classroom while providing students and community members with access and knowledge to living a healthy lifestyle. Members will be vital in maintaining the gardens so that gardens exude beauty in the neighborhoods they serve and work in small teams to provide farm stands and informational workshops.
Reading & Math Inc.
National Public Health Corps
Contact: recruitment@ampact.us | 866-859-2825
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome substance use disorders in Illinois and Virginia. Activities that members may participate in include supporting individuals in recovery with personalized recovery plans; assisting clients in navigating social services resources, programs, and benefit systems; fostering strong relationships with clients to help build their confidence and skills, while encouraging them to have agency over their own recovery; and participating in training and professional development throughout the year, including the Peer Recovery Support training.
Sinai Health System (Sinai)
Sinai AmeriCorps Initiative
Contact: sheton@sinai.org | 773-257-5837
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support health equity, health access, and COVID-19 education programming. Members will conduct research and evaluation activities, provide health education and community outreach, and provide system navigation, referrals, and linkage to care at Sinai and other entities including Sinai Community Institute (SCI) and Holy Cross Hospital. Members will advance health equity and improve service delivery within Sinai's service area.
The HAP Foundation
Contact: info@thehapfoundation.org | 312-741-1283
The program will recruit AmeriCorps Seniors volunteers whose work will vary based on the volunteer station. All projects will involve increasing health knowledge in your community. If the volunteer station is a health clinic the work may be developing and offering education on how to manage and live with diabetes, or another type of illness. For volunteers placed at a hospice, you may be working on a veteran program, or educating community members on the services available when you are seriously ill. Other projects may involve helping to connect people who are homeless with community resources or connecting young mothers with counseling and other supportive services.
University of Chicago
Contact: uchicagoamericorpsstaff@lists.uchicago.edu | 773- 702-8600
The AmeriCorps Seniors Public Health Workforce Program at the University of Chicago provides adults 55+ living on Chicago’s South Side or Southland with the opportunity to engage in service and job training to prepare them for careers in public health. Volunteers help conduct research and provide direct services to patients at the University of Chicago to improve medical care and social services in their communities. Volunteers also participate in job training in clinical research and/or community health.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Contact: ccota@voa.org
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a faith-based, nationwide nonprofit organization at the intersection of health, housing, and human services. Public Health AmeriCorps members work as frontline Community Health Workers serving underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA. The position serves as a liaison between health services and the community to facilitate access to comprehensive, quality service and health care delivery. Members participate in community events, help connect clients with community resources, and provide health coaching to individuals.
Indiana
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Indiana State Department of Health
AmeriCorps Improving Health Throughout Indiana
Contact: AbPequignot@health.in.gov | 317-775-8911
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase the capacity of local public health departments across Indiana. AmeriCorps members will support at least ten local health departments in increasing their operational service best practice or accreditation readiness.
The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, Inc. (THFGI)
Ending the Epidemics
Contact: americorps@thfgi.org | 317-630-1805 Ext. 0
The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis, Inc. currently supports up to 34 Members in partnership with 18 Service Sites, located in every region of Indiana. The program is focused on development in under-resourced areas that will benefit from further enhancement of public health infrastructure, as it relates to HIV, Hepatitis C (HCV), and Harm Reduction. AmeriCorps members will contribute to an increased capacity to respond to the HIV and HCV Epidemics.
Iowa
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Iowa Health and Human Services
IEDA AmeriCorps
Contact: erin.hardigree@idph.iowa.gov | 515-415-0065
AmeriCorps members will respond to public health needs by supporting food security and resource navigation efforts in rural and urban communities across Iowa. Members will be responsible for supporting special projects and capacity building activities at 20 nonprofit or government agencies. Members will also complete training to become certified Community Health Workers, equipping them with the knowledge and professional skills to better meet the public health needs of Iowa communities.
University of Iowa
Disaster PrepWise AmeriCorps
Contact: cph-AmeriCorps@uiowa.edu | 319-467-1193
Disaster PrepWise AmeriCorps is a program based out of the University of Iowa College of Public Health whose mission is to increase disaster preparedness among older adults in Iowa. Public Health AmeriCorps members will be serving either within a local public health/senior service organization or with the team at the College of Public Health. Members will recruit older adults and prepare them for disasters, as well as work with their own and other local organizations to help promote the program and develop resources that allow them to more specifically target vulnerable populations.
Kansas
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
University of Missouri
Active Lab: Public Health through Physical Activity
Contact: grimesa@umkc.edu | 816-235-1737
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support the Active Lab, an initiative to promote public health through physical activity. The Active Lab leads two major activities, Move More, Get More (MMGM) and Getting Around KC (GAKC). The AmeriCorps members will serve bi-state activities operating in the urban areas of the metropolitan Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri.
Wyandotte County
WYCO Public Health Corps
Contact: AmeriCorps@wycokck.org | 913-573-8865
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support tobacco cessation, Wyandotte County's community health improvement plan, COVID-19 education and outreach, or WyCo Connect in Wyandotte County, Kansas. AmeriCorps members will increase the number of residents reporting quitting tobacco and/or becoming vaccinated against COVID-19 as well as provide critical increased capacity to local public health programming.
Kentucky
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Family Scholar House, Inc.
FSH Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: KYHealthCorps@familyscholarhouse.org | 502-289-6384
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide healthcare support and services to seniors and disabled individuals in healthcare facilities across Kentucky. By placing members at nonprofit healthcare facilities in rural and urban areas, the program addresses the healthcare workforce shortage in a sustainable way. Consistent with their mission, the program is committed to equipping people with the training and experience they need to continue on the path of becoming a healthcare professional through credentialing coursework. Members complete their service ready to enter the workforce or continue in their healthcare career education, enabling them to work in memory care, skilled nursing, assisted living, and other healthcare-related environments.
Kentucky Health Departments Association
Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: AmeriCorps@khda-ky.org
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers (CHWs) in local health departments in communities across Kentucky in core public health programs, including Health And Nutrition Delivery System (HANDS), Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and Harm Reduction.
Louisiana
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
CHRISTUS Health
CHRISTUS Health HEART Work
Contact: americorps@christushealth.org | 210-704-4890
Public Health AmeriCorps will address social determinants of health by providing screening, education, referral and navigation services to improve health outcomes across the service areas of CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Good Shepherd, St. Michael, Santa Rosa, Spohn, Southeast Texas, Ochsner St. Patrick, St. Frances Cabrini, Shreveport-Bossier, St. Vincent and the System Office. AmeriCorps members will acquire Community Health Worker (CHW) training and state certification and utilize a Social Needs Community Resource Directory to address identified needs.
Maine
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Epilepsy Foundation New England, Inc.
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Contact: jganz@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. There will be an opportunity to build connections with people living with epilepsy, provide them with the support they need for themselves and their families, and link them to community-based service providers that can help with food, transportation, housing, and other critical needs. Full-time members can earn certifications as a Community Health Worker and in Seizure First Aid, and have other benefits such as engaging in a flexible schedule, health insurance, and professional development assistance.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Goodwill Northern New England
GoodwillNNE Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: Jenna.rouleau@goodwillnne.org | 207-774-6323
Public Health AmeriCorps will help build the public health workforce in Maine and New Hampshire. This program partners with health centers, substance misuse recovery centers, public schools, and other types of agencies meeting public health needs to engage youth in programs to prevent substance misuse, create food security programs in partnership with Maine Health, provide vaccination education to reduce vaccination hesitancy, work to limit isolation and create stronger community integration for individuals with disabilities, and research and implement additional public health interventions to meet the pressing public health needs of underserved communities. Members are gaining strong skills through their experiences and getting hired for professional public health positions immediately upon completion.
Maryland
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Baltimore Corps, Inc.
Baltimore Community Health Corps
Contact: americorps@baltimorecorps.org | 443-640-8904
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Pathways members in Baltimore, Maryland at community based partner sites. Throughout their service year members will increase the quality of care and access for underserved populations across the city. Members will serve on one of four tracks working to reduce the impacts of trauma and COVID-19 while also increasing organizational capacity at their service site to help ensure Baltimore's most vulnerable populations receive culturally informed services and continue to have access to quality health care and programs in their communities.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Latin American Youth Center
LAYC National Direct AmeriCorps
Contact: jennifer.flores@layc-dc.org | 202-319-2225
Public Health AmeriCorps members will promote interventions and education efforts to increase awareness related to HIV/STIs, sexual health, harm reduction, and food/nutrition within Washington, DC and Prince George's County, Maryland. AmeriCorps members will conduct and attend outreach events and implement educational public health services.
Massachusetts
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Inc.
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Inc.
Contact: ceagan@bhchp.org | 857-654-1047
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide care coordination, overdose prevention, and health education in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will provide individuals and families experiencing homelessness with improved access to health care, connections to essential health-supporting resources and social services, health education, and education to prevent overdoses and address substance use disorders.
Boston Medical Center
Boston Medical Center - StreetCred
Contact: info@mystreetcred.org | 617-414-5170
Public Health AmeriCorps members will implement a program that prescribes economic opportunities to families as a part of their routine health care visits in Boston, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will connect families to free money available to them (tax credits, Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) and Child Tax Credit (CTC), in addition to tax refunds; and seed money for college savings accounts (CSAs), and empower them to work toward financial goals via individualized financial coaching.
East Boston Community Health Center
Public Health Corps East Boston
Contact: americorps@ebnhc.org | 617-568-4480
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide care coordination, conduct outreach to patients, and connect community members to services in East Boston Neighborhood Health Center clinics in Boston, Massachusetts. These opportunities will provide opportunities for members to serve underserved communities while exploring the field of community health including preventative and primary care, disease prevention, education and social determinants of health needs. AmeriCorps members support health screenings, conduct outreach, and participate in administrative activities related to cancer, mental health, and other social services.
City of Lawrence Massachusetts
Safe and Healthy Homes in Lawrence and Methuen, MA
Contact: healthyhomes@cityoflawrence.com | 978-620-3116
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide healthy homes outreach, education, and resource referrals to landlords and tenants in Lawrence and Methuen, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge of residents and advocate for health and safety improvements in rental properties. At the end of the first program year, Public Health AmeriCorps members will be responsible for increasing the health knowledge of 1,536 residents and promoting health and safety improvements in 770 rental properties.
Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Inc.
Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center, Inc.
Contact: Christine.ditullio@kennedychc.org | 508-854-3253
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide outreach services for students enrolled in public school systems, with an emphasis on six school-based health centers operated by the Health Center in Framingham and Worcester, Massachusetts. AmeriCorps members will connect students and families in these communities to health care by increasing enrollment in the school-based health centers and identifying and assisting families and students who do not have health insurance coverage.
Epilepsy Foundation New England, Inc.
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Contact: jganz@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. There will be an opportunity to build connections with people living with epilepsy, provide them with the support they need for themselves and their families, and link them to community-based service providers that can help with food, transportation, housing, and other critical needs. Full-time members can earn certifications as a Community Health Worker and in Seizure First Aid, and have other benefits such as engaging in a flexible schedule, health insurance, and professional development assistance.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Emergency Management Department
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: Allyssa.Hathaway@mwtribe-nsn.gov, nelson.andrewsJr@mwtribe-nsn.gov | 508-477-0208 Ext. 103
Public Health AmeriCorps members will build capacity of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe's Emergency Management Department through disaster preparation, direct services, and community training. Members participate in delivering personal protective equipment supplies to community members, organizing Covid-19 supplies and equipment, conducting presentations, and working alongside public health experts. Members also participate in activities related to disaster preparation and relief, including but not limited to snow removal, volunteering within departments in Tribal Government Operations, first responder training, wild firefighter training, storm prep, and hurricane preparedness. For these projects, there is ongoing collaboration with federal, state, local and tribal partners.
National Network of Public Health Institutes
NNPHI Climate and Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: phamericorps@nnphi.org | 1-888-996-6744
NNPHI Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster, climate-related health event, and in addressing climate justice issues. Members serve in Massachusetts, Texas, and Puerto Rico.
OCHIN, Inc.
OCHIN Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: amarj@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. This opportunity is ideal for those who are interested in training to become a community health worker or data and clinical quality analyst. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Michigan
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Cherry Health
Cherry Health AmeriCorps (CHAC)
Contact: americorps@cherryhealth.com | 616-776-2270
Cherry Health AmeriCorps is a health-focused program located in Grand Rapids, MI. Members will increase access to health care and decrease health disparities in underserved communities by providing evidence-based health education, Medicaid outreach and enrollment assistance, and supportive services to bridge gaps in health care. Staff engage with members twice monthly through team meetings and once monthly through community service projects. Members receive Community Health Worker training and personal and professional development to support pathways to careers in public health.
The Ingham County Health Department
ICHD Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: MCole2@ingham.org | 517-643-7982
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide capacity building support to organizations in the Capital Region (Ingham, Clinton and Eaton Counties) in the areas of: healthcare access, racial equity, community resilience, and public health workforce development.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Michigan Primary Care Association
MPCA CHL HealthCorps
Contact: kgoucher@mpca.net | 517-827-0878
AmeriCorps HealthCorps members will spend their service hours reaching out to individuals in the community that are not receiving primary and preventive services and connect them to care through community health centers. Duties include, but are not limited to: Reaching out to connect patients with primary care, including annual primary care visits, chronic disease management visits, or preventive services like immunizations and cancer screenings; facilitating access to care by aiding with appointment scheduling, transportation assistance and arranging interpretation; connecting patients with supportive community services to address social needs and barriers to care; reengaging patients who experienced delayed or disrupted care because of COVID-19; and assisting patients with navigation services to ensure patients don’t lose their healthcare coverage after the unwinding of the Public Health Emergency (PHE)
Minnesota
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
OCHIN, Inc.
OCHIN Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: amarj@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. This opportunity is ideal for those who are interested in training to become a community health worker or data and clinical quality analyst. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Reading & Math Inc.
Heading Home Corps - Public Health
Contact: recruitment@ampact.us | 866-859-2825
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide housing navigation and other housing-related support services to organizations serving people experiencing homelessness in nonprofits and shelters across Minnesota. Activities that members may participate in include helping individuals experiencing homelessness achieve their housing goals; assisting clients in navigating social services resources, programs, and benefit systems; fostering strong relationships to help clients build their confidence and skills; and engaging in ongoing training and professional development. AmeriCorps members will serve people experiencing housing instability and other related obstacles to improve their health.
Reading & Math Inc.
Minnesota Public Health Corps
Contact: recruitment@ampact.us | 866-859-2825
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide capacity-building support in public health agencies across the state of Minnesota. AmeriCorps members will support organizations to increase their efficiency, effectiveness, or program reach. Activities that members may participate in include helping facilitate research, data collection and survey administration; engaging community members in focus groups and public health conversations; advancing health and racial equity initiatives; supporting public health education campaigns; and participating in ongoing training and professional development.
Reading & Math Inc.
Recovery Corps - Public Health
Contact: recruitment@ampact.us | 866-859-2825
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome opioid use disorder and other substance use disorders in Minnesota. Activities that members may participate in include supporting individuals with personalized recovery plans; assisting clients in navigating social services resources, programs, and benefit systems; fostering strong relationships with clients to help build their confidence and skills, while encouraging them to have agency over their own recovery; and engaging in training and professional development throughout the year, including the Peer Recovery Support training. AmeriCorps members will work with people in recovery to help increase their quality of life, self-esteem and self-efficacy, recovery capital, and confidence in staying substance free.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Contact: ccota@voa.org
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a faith-based, nationwide nonprofit organization at the intersection of health, housing, and human services. Public Health AmeriCorps members work as frontline Community Health Workers serving underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA. The position serves as a liaison between health services and the community to facilitate access to comprehensive, quality service and health care delivery. Members participate in community events, help connect clients with community resources, and provide health coaching to individuals.
Mississippi
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) - National Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: HR@bpsos.org | 703-538-2190
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with scheduling vaccine appointments, referring clients to vaccine sites and health services, finding transportation, accessing language resources, and address other vaccine-related needs. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health. The project will reach over 315,000 Asian Americans (AAs) residing in urban and rural areas across six states.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Missouri
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Healing Action Network, Inc.
Healing Action Network, Inc. Public Health Corps
Contact: Libby@healingaction.org | 314-833-4515
Public Health AmeriCorps members will help meet the public mental health needs and provide direct services to adult survivors of commercial sexual exploitation, sex trafficking, and sexual trauma in the St. Louis region by providing community education and collaboration opportunities to individuals and organizations across Missouri. AmeriCorps members may also participate in projects aimed at increasing knowledge regarding opioids to program participants and assist program recipients in achieving progress in at least one recovery goal through coaching and navigation of services. Because this program works with different partner sites, Public Health AmeriCorps members can engage in a wide range of projects.
University of Missouri
Active Lab: Public Health through Physical Activity
Contact: grimesa@umkc.edu | 816-235-1737
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support the Active Lab, an initiative to promote public health through physical activity. The Active Lab leads two major activities, Move More, Get More (MMGM) and Getting Around KC (GAKC). The AmeriCorps members will serve bi-state activities operating in the urban areas of the metropolitan Kansas City in Kansas and Missouri.
Montana
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Public Health AmeriCorps - American Red Cross
Contact: matthew.martinez@redcross.org | 310-629-5149
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest
Contact: recruitment@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
Nebraska
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Nevada
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
New Hampshire
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Epilepsy Foundation New England, Inc.
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Contact: jganz@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. There will be an opportunity to build connections with people living with epilepsy, provide them with the support they need for themselves and their families, and link them to community-based service providers that can help with food, transportation, housing, and other critical needs. Full-time members can earn certifications as a Community Health Worker and in Seizure First Aid, and have other benefits such as engaging in a flexible schedule, health insurance, and professional development assistance.
Goodwill Northern New England
GoodwillNNE Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: Jenna.rouleau@goodwillnne.org | 207-774-6323
Public Health AmeriCorps will help build the public health workforce in Maine and New Hampshire. This program partners with health centers, substance misuse recovery centers, public schools, and other types of agencies meeting public health needs to engage youth in programs to prevent substance misuse, create food security programs in partnership with Maine Health, provide vaccination education to reduce vaccination hesitancy, work to limit isolation and create stronger community integration for individuals with disabilities, and research and implement additional public health interventions to meet the pressing public health needs of underserved communities. Members are gaining strong skills through their experiences and getting hired for professional public health positions immediately upon completion.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Contact: cece@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
New Jersey
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Montclair State University
Montclair State University Healthy Communities Corps
Contact: chicad@montclair.edu | 973-655-7895
Public Health AmeriCorps members work with many organizations that focus on food security and food health, as well as sustainability, agriculture, social services and mental health. Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve in North, Central, and South Jersey and manage the deployment of student volunteers to local, on-the-ground community organizations, human service agencies, hospitals, health clinics, and affordable housing agencies. This Public Health AmeriCorps program works with different sites, and responsibilities for members vary among the different placements.
New Jersey Community Development Corporation (NJCDC)
New Jersey Community Development Corporation (NJCDC)
Contact: info@njcdc.org | 973-413-1600
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed in Full Service Community Schools in Paterson, New Jersey with the express purpose of addressing student and family mental health needs. They will set up mental health resource centers, sponsor monthly seminars on mental health topics, and be the primary linkage with the new NJ4S state model to ensure clinicians come into these schools as needed.
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey- Camden
AmeriCorps Rutgers Camden FY2022
Contact: PHAmeriCorps@camden.rutgers.edu | 856-225-2192
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve the City of Camden and the Delaware Valley Region in New Jersey through capacity building efforts. AmeriCorps members will focus on public health promotion, community education, and direct service activities related to healthy futures.
Zufall Health Center
Zufall Health Center Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: jamaya@zufallhealth.org | 973-328-3344 Ext. 1613
Public Health AmeriCorps members will perform outreach and health education for a range of initiatives, including chronic disease management, healthy eating, exercise, vaccinations, retinopathy eye screenings, prenatal care, dental services for veterans, and insurance enrollment. Public Health AmeriCorps members support underserved communities that are disproportionately affected by health disparities in New Jersey, namely Essex, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Somerset, Sussex, and Warren counties.
New Mexico
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
CHRISTUS Health
CHRISTUS Health HEART Work
Contact: americorps@christushealth.org | 210-704-4890
Public Health AmeriCorps will address social determinants of health by providing screening, education, referral and navigation services to improve health outcomes across the service areas of CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Good Shepherd, St. Michael, Santa Rosa, Spohn, Southeast Texas, Ochsner St. Patrick, St. Frances Cabrini, Shreveport-Bossier, St. Vincent and the System Office. AmeriCorps members will acquire Community Health Worker (CHW) training and state certification and utilize a Social Needs Community Resource Directory to address identified needs.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico
Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico
Contact: sabrina.su@rrfb.org | 575-323-5139
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with resource navigation and referrals to healthcare providers across New Mexico. AmeriCorps members will assist individuals and increase health knowledge for food insecure New Mexicans.
Rocky Mountain Youth Corps
RMYC Public Health Crew
Contact: michelle@youthcorps.org | 575-751-1420
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be serving as Public Health Crewmembers. This program seeks young adults who can bring an interest and/or a wide range of life experiences in recovery from drug and alcohol use to work with youth of the community. Ultimately. members have the opportunity to explore and begin a journey into public health with an emphasis on substance misuse and recovery. Members will have an opportunity to be trained in motivational interviewing, substance use screening, principles of substance use prevention, and how to be a mentor to adolescents. Members will be paired and report to a school site at either Taos High School, Vista Grande High School, Espanola High School, or the Health and Community Services Department in Taos Pueblo, New Mexico. AmeriCorps members will help students complete the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) assessment and the Project Amp curriculum.
New York
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
City of Rochester
Flower City Public Health Corps
Contact: NiJay.Harris-Henry@CityofRochester.Gov | 585-428-7232
Flower City AmeriCorps is a program designed to inspire and prepare the next wave of human service and public health professionals. Members will gain the skills and experiences needed to begin their careers and commit to a year of service in the Rochester community. Activities that members may participate in include providing COVID-19 response and recovery services; assisting in establishing neighborhood preventative health clinics; facilitating youth mentoring and trainings in public health; conducting health educational and training programming, mental health education and awareness; and performing community outreach within high-poverty, urban and marginalized neighborhoods.
Community Health Care Association of New York State
CHCANYS NYS Public Health Corps
Contact: americorps@chcanys.org | 212-279-9686 Ext. 117
CHCANYS Public Health AmeriCorps is a workforce development program dedicated to preparing members for careers in public and community-based primary health care, while addressing the most pressing health care needs in communities throughout New York State. CHCANYS AmeriCorps members serve in federally qualified Community Health Centers, providing care management and health education services to patients and community residents, thereby filling service gaps and increasing access to health care services. Members receive extensive training and professional development opportunities during their service term to support their development as the future of New York’s public health workforce. Members serve in the following counties: New York, Kings, Bronx, Queens, Richmond, Albany, Warren, Westchester, Dutchess, Hudson Valley, Suffolk, Putnam, Rockland, Eerie, Onondaga, and Monroe.
Concrete Safaris Inc.
PlacemakingCorps
Contact: info@concretesafaris.org | 646-869-1503
Public Health AmeriCorps members will gain skills and confidence to develop as leaders through direct service, planning, and leadership of child and youth-centered environmental health service learning projects in East Harlem, New York. Public Health AmeriCorps members educate children and youth on environmental health and facilitate implementation of their visions for a healthy neighborhood through gardening, outdoor play, and art interventions for neighbors. Public Health AmeriCorps members will also provide much-needed, local referrals for medical and public health services.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
New York City Office of the Mayor
New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) Health Corps
Contact: nychahealthcorps@cityhall.nyc.gov | 212-788-3209
NYCHA Health Corps will provide an opportunity for New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) residents to receive training and work experience in areas that promote health and wellness. The member’s role serves to support community partners in expanding their focus to advance equitable health outcomes across public housing developments. By leveraging the AmeriCorps model centered on leadership development and public service, members add value to key organizational initiatives and deliver vital resources to more NYCHA residents. The twin objectives of the NYCHA Health Corps program are to support community partners in expanding their focus on interventions that advance equitable health outcomes across public housing developments and create pathways for NYCHA residents into public health-related careers.
Public Health Solutions
Public Health Solutions
Contact: mmclean@healthsolutions.org | 646-690-3500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide needs assessments and navigation services to low-income families in underserved areas of Queens, New York. As a result, AmeriCorps members will increase the self-efficacy of these New Yorkers.
Ronald McDonald House New York
Improving Child Health Through Integrated Systems of Care
Contact: adangelo@rmh-newyork | 646-630-0425
At Ronald McDonald House New York, Public Health AmeriCorps members will build the infrastructure needed to advance health equity outcomes for underserved medically complex children and their families receiving care at public and safety-net hospitals in New York City. AmeriCorps members will do this by canvassing communities to conduct risk assessments and market analyses to identify social determinants of health of target communities, establish referral networks with community-based organizations, and refer medically complex families being served by Ronald McDonald House New York to other services at other nonprofits to address various social determinants of health. By participating, Public Health AmeriCorps members are helping build the knowledge surrounding what services help families with sick children and how social determinants of health impact families' access to critical care.
Rural Health Network of South Central New York
Rural Health Network of South Central New York
Contact: jpitts@rhnscny.org | 607-692-7669
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide health access services and increase capacity in upstate New York counties, primarily the rural Southern Tier. Counties served include Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Erie, Madison, Otsego, Schoharie, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Allegany, and Cayuga.
North Carolina
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Appalachian State University
App State Public Health Program
Contact: phac@appstate.edu | 828-262-7311
Public Health AmeriCorps members will foster meaningful relationships, develop public health professionals, and bolster community resilience and preparedness in western North Carolina by addressing local public health inequities through service, volunteerism, and evidence-based interventions. Members will serve Western North Carolina including Alexander, Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Buncombe, Burke, Caldwell, Cherokee, Clay, Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Graham, Haywood, Henderson, Jackson, Macon, Madison, McDowell, Mitchell, Polk, Rutherford, Swain, Transylvania, Watauga, Wilkes, and Yancey.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
REACH AmeriCorps
Contact: americorps@ialr.org | 434-766-6631
REACH (Regional Engagement to Advance Community Health) AmeriCorps, a program of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), is dedicated to expanding capacity for public health service by providing direct outreach and educational services in the City of Danville, Pittsylvania County, and Caswell County. Members will provide individualized support, addressing the region’s most pressing physical and mental health challenges through a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens.
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc.
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc. III
Contact: marcus.stern@n2ncarolinas.org | 1-843-364-7085
Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate vulnerable seniors on health initiatives, assist in navigating the health care system to access mental health resources, provide community members with referrals and linkages to community resources, and collect community-level public health data in Horry, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina and Brunswick County in North Carolina.
OCHIN, Inc.
OCHIN Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: amarj@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. This opportunity is ideal for those who are interested in training to become a community health worker or data and clinical quality analyst. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities
Wellness Corps
Contact: robert@pamlicorose.org | 805-320-2967
Public Health AmeriCorps members will administer wellness, healthy living and resilience programs through the use of community gardens for underrepresented populations in eastern North Carolina, including Pitt and Beaufort counties. AmeriCorps members will implement a comprehensive garden to table program, focused on mitigating food insecurity through education. This program serves groups such as women veterans, the legally blind, and college students.
Wake Forest University
Wake Forest University Public Health Corps
Contact: magjukmg@wfu.edu | 336-758-4549
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to improve health knowledge and access to medical care for low-income individuals and families in Forsyth County, North Carolina. AmeriCorps members will conduct health outreach & education, provide patient navigation services, and build capacity for free health clinics.
Ohio
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
OCHIN, Inc.
OCHIN Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: amarj@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. This opportunity is ideal for those who are interested in training to become a community health worker or data and clinical quality analyst. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Ohio State University Extension
Ohio State University Extension Public Health AmeriCorps (EPHAC)
Contact: Drerup.23@osu.edu | 567-242-7302
Public Health AmeriCorps members will engage communities in service-learning public health projects focused on social determinants of health. Members work in collaboration with their local Ohio State University Extension office and other community partners to reach underserved populations in their communities.
Oklahoma
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Oregon
The American National Red Cross (Red Cross)
Public Health AmeriCorps - American Red Cross
Contact: matthew.martinez@redcross.org | 310-629-5149
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase organizational capacity through targeted volunteer recruitment, placement, and training to serve the unmet needs of vulnerable communities as identified by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) before, during and after disasters in AK, HI, ID, MT, OR, and WA. AmeriCorps members will increase the volunteer workforce through targeted recruitment in high-risk areas and increased awareness of the Red Cross’s programs and mission through concentrated community outreach efforts to other non-profit organizations, schools, small business associations, and community gatherings to ensure their services and volunteer opportunities are accessible to those with the greatest barriers and need.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
FoodCorps, Inc.
FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: serve@foodcorps.org | 212-596-7045
Public Health AmeriCorps members will teach kids about nutrition and help schools become healthier places for them to learn and grow. Most of a member’s time will be spent teaching in the classroom and garden. There are also opportunities to work with school nutrition directors in supporting districtwide food systems change. Members serve schools with high rates of students that are eligible for free or reduced-price school meals across Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington D.C.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest
Contact: recruitment@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
OCHIN, Inc.
OCHIN Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: amarj@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. This opportunity is ideal for those who are interested in training to become a community health worker or data and clinical quality analyst. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Pennsylvania
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Health Federation of Philadelphia
National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship
Contact: sdatta@healthfederation.org | 215-268-3672
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide public health services including health education, COVID-19 vaccination support, digital health navigation, linkage to care, mental health and wellness, and substance use disorder prevention and response in Philadelphia, Northeast Pennsylvania, New Castle County, Delaware, and the Central Valley and Southern Inland Regions of California. AmeriCorps members will increase knowledge about disease prevention and mitigation and access to resources necessary to improve health outcomes and reduce health disparities among individuals who live in historically marginalized communities.
National Nurse-Led Care Consortium
National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNCC)
Contact: tphim@phmc.org | 215-985-2500
The Public Health AmeriCorps Nursing Fellowship is designed to provide undergraduate nursing students with community based primary care and public health clinical experiences serving vulnerable communities. This unique fellowship will enhance students’ competencies to screen patients for Social Determinants of Health (SDOH), refer individuals to social and healthcare services, provide healthcare education to high-risk patients, and support the expansion of other capacity needs of primary care and public health organizations.
Puerto Rico
National Network of Public Health Institutes
NNPHI Climate and Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: phamericorps@nnphi.org | 1-888-996-6744
NNPHI Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster, climate-related health event, and in addressing climate justice issues. Members serve in Massachusetts, Texas, and Puerto Rico.
Oficina para la Promocion y el Desarrollo Humano, Inc. (OPDH)
Oficina Promocion y Desarrollo Humano
Contact: opdhinc@gmail.com | 787-817-6951
Public Health AmeriCorps members will deliver mental health services to adolescents and young adults from the North and Central geographical regions of Puerto Rico. AmeriCorps members will increase participants’ mental health knowledge.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Contact: ccota@voa.org
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a faith-based, nationwide nonprofit organization at the intersection of health, housing, and human services. Public Health AmeriCorps members work as frontline Community Health Workers serving underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA. The position serves as a liaison between health services and the community to facilitate access to comprehensive, quality service and health care delivery. Members participate in community events, help connect clients with community resources, and provide health coaching to individuals.
Rhode Island
Epilepsy Foundation New England, Inc.
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Contact: jganz@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. There will be an opportunity to build connections with people living with epilepsy, provide them with the support they need for themselves and their families, and link them to community-based service providers that can help with food, transportation, housing, and other critical needs. Full-time members can earn certifications as a Community Health Worker and in Seizure First Aid, and have other benefits such as engaging in a flexible schedule, health insurance, and professional development assistance.
South Carolina
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors, Inc.
Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program
Contact: pedouard@chronicdisease.org | 404-596-4966
Public Health AmeriCorps members will be placed across up to twenty states to advance existing efforts around food and nutrition security, safe physical activity access, social connectedness, and health equity, all within the context of addressing the impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic in partnership with State Health Departments or similar agencies, local health department(s) or other community-based organization(s), and/or a local YMCA or YMCA State Alliance. Members will assist states with increasing the number of organizations that improve their efficiency, effectiveness, and/or program reach in addressing nutrition security, improving access to safe physical activity opportunities, and/or reducing social isolation and loneliness through policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) change approaches.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Contact: cece@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc.
Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina, Inc. III
Contact: marcus.stern@n2ncarolinas.org | 1-843-364-7085
Public Health AmeriCorps members will educate vulnerable seniors on health initiatives, assist in navigating the health care system to access mental health resources, provide community members with referrals and linkages to community resources, and collect community-level public health data in Horry, Georgetown, and Williamsburg counties in South Carolina and Brunswick County in North Carolina.
South Carolina Free Clinic Association
SCFCA Community Health Workers Program
Contact: dbovian@scfreeclinics.org | 803-713-5993
Public Health AmeriCorps members serve as Community Health Workers (CHWs) at locations across South Carolina. Members help provide patient navigation services to the most vulnerable and underserved populations, working closely with patients, medical providers, primary care teams, and other community agencies to improve access to care and patient outcomes.
Tennessee
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Equal Heart
Equal Heart Public Health
Contact: publichealth@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will focus on serving community programs that increase health outcomes by providing increased supplies of healthy food, better access to medical resources, and targeted information to the community. Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Health360
Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps (HMA-PHA)
Contact: wolf@health360.org | 203-788-7349
Healthy Minds Alliance AmeriCorps members will serve with crisis call centers throughout the country, to provide expanded support to meet challenges faced by these centers after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline shifted to the 3-digit number 988. AmeriCorps members are trained in evidence-informed crisis intervention and suicide prevention, to provide direct and immediate support to individuals accessing the local crisis call center’s suicide prevention calls, texts, and chats.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Contact: cece@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
Texas
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
American Youthworks Youthbuild
Homeless Healthcare Leadership Academy
Contact: akouyate@ayw.org | 512-783-8947
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers to increase health knowledge in Title 1 Public Schools in Central Texas.
Arizona State University
Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence
Contact: survivorlink@asu.edu | 602-543-5872
The primary objective of this program is to build capacity within the community to understand and respond to domestic violence. Survivor Link Public Health Specialists will work in a public health or complimentary setting under the dual supervision of an agency-identified supervisor and a university faculty member. This reduced-half time term of service will include: internship duties, attendance at training events, and completion and receipt of a certification for a virtual 16-hour CDC Public Health training. Members will develop and deliver 3-6 trainings and provide technical assistance to staff at public health or complementary agencies. Additional service duties can include group and individual support, childcare, facility maintenance, and other tasks assigned by the site supervisor and Faculty Coordinator. Community fieldwork will require regular documentation and supervision.
Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) - National Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: HR@bpsos.org | 703-538-2190
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with scheduling vaccine appointments, referring clients to vaccine sites and health services, finding transportation, accessing language resources, and address other vaccine-related needs. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health. The project will reach over 315,000 Asian Americans (AAs) residing in urban and rural areas across six states.
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
CHRISTUS Health
CHRISTUS Health HEART Work
Contact: americorps@christushealth.org | 210-704-4890
Public Health AmeriCorps will address social determinants of health by providing screening, education, referral and navigation services to improve health outcomes across the service areas of CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances, Good Shepherd, St. Michael, Santa Rosa, Spohn, Southeast Texas, Ochsner St. Patrick, St. Frances Cabrini, Shreveport-Bossier, St. Vincent and the System Office. AmeriCorps members will acquire Community Health Worker (CHW) training and state certification and utilize a Social Needs Community Resource Directory to address identified needs.
City of Austin
City of Austin - AmeriCorps Public Health
Contact: annette.phinney@austintexas.gov | 737-900-3247
Public Health AmeriCorps members will coordinate public health online education for residents and partners, as well as food shopping delivery service for families experiencing challenges obtaining food in Austin, Texas. The AmeriCorps members' service activities will focus on engaging marginalized and historically underserved communities.
Equal Heart
Equal Heart Public Health
Contact: publichealth@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will focus on serving community programs that increase health outcomes by providing increased supplies of healthy food, better access to medical resources, and targeted information to the community. Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation, Inc.
Contact: cece@leezascareconnection.org | 803-888-7525
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase staffing and financial capacity for sites in South Carolina, California, Texas and create and/or maintain new HUGS programs in New Hampshire, Texas, Tennessee, and Georgia, California, and South Carolina.
National Network of Public Health Institutes
NNPHI Climate and Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: phamericorps@nnphi.org | 1-888-996-6744
NNPHI Public Health AmeriCorps members will facilitate climate and health social media campaigns and connect community members and organizations to social services available to them in the event of a climate disaster, climate-related health event, and in addressing climate justice issues. Members serve in Massachusetts, Texas, and Puerto Rico.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Contact: ccota@voa.org
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a faith-based, nationwide nonprofit organization at the intersection of health, housing, and human services. Public Health AmeriCorps members work as frontline Community Health Workers serving underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA. The position serves as a liaison between health services and the community to facilitate access to comprehensive, quality service and health care delivery. Members participate in community events, help connect clients with community resources, and provide health coaching to individuals.
Utah
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
The Association for Utah Community Health (UACH)
Utah Healthcare Corps
Contact: arasmussen@auch.org | 801-300-8268
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Community Health Workers (CHWs) and improve access to medical care in the Utah Counties of Weber, Washington, Salt Lake, and Utah.
Vermont
Epilepsy Foundation New England, Inc.
Epilepsy Resource Room Corps
Contact: jganz@epilepsynewengland.org | 617-506-6041
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as Epilepsy Resource Room Coordinators, providing Community Health Worker services and health education in 16 hospitals and health care institutions in Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. There will be an opportunity to build connections with people living with epilepsy, provide them with the support they need for themselves and their families, and link them to community-based service providers that can help with food, transportation, housing, and other critical needs. Full-time members can earn certifications as a Community Health Worker and in Seizure First Aid, and have other benefits such as engaging in a flexible schedule, health insurance, and professional development assistance.
Virginia
The Blue Ridge Medical Center
Blue Ridge Medical Center Inc.
Contact: mfitzsimons@brmedical.org | 434-263-4000
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as community health workers in the heart of Central Virginia, specifically in Amherst, Appomattox, and Nelson Counties in Central Virginia. AmeriCorps members will decrease rates of preventable hospitalizations, increase patient knowledge to improve self-management of chronic illness, and build youth resiliency to reduce substance use among middle and high school students. The mission of the program is to slash the occurrence of avoidable hospitalizations, empower patients with the wisdom to enhance their own chronic illness management, and fortify the resilience of our young generation, ultimately curbing substance abuse among middle and high school students.
Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Boat People SOS (BPSOS) - National Public Health AmeriCorps
Contact: HR@bpsos.org | 703-538-2190
Public Health AmeriCorps members will assist community members with scheduling vaccine appointments, referring clients to vaccine sites and health services, finding transportation, accessing language resources, and address other vaccine-related needs. AmeriCorps members will increase health knowledge through health workshops, as well as help individuals gain access to medical services including COVID-19 vaccines, surveys, evidence-based research on COVID-19, and ways to protect their health. The project will reach over 315,000 Asian Americans (AAs) residing in urban and rural areas across six states.
City of Richmond
RVA Health Corps
Contact: Paul.Manning@Richmondgov.com | 804-646-6528
Public Health AmeriCorps members will serve as community health workers (CHWs) and provide nutrition education, mental health literacy, and informal chronic disease and mental health counseling in Richmond's low-income neighborhoods. Members will also support referrals to healthcare providers, local health agencies, and community organizations. AmeriCorps members will obtain a community health worker certification and licensure, providing a pathway to critical public health careers for underrepresented Black and Latinx Richmonders who have been systematically excluded from serving and leading their own communities.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Equal Heart
Equal Heart Public Health
Contact: publichealth@equalheart.org | 469-526-3645
Public Health AmeriCorps members will focus on serving community programs that increase health outcomes by providing increased supplies of healthy food, better access to medical resources, and targeted information to the community. Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide access to care and other services that meet public health needs in rural, distressed, and other under-resourced communities across five states, including Colorado, Hawaii, Texas, Tennessee, and Virginia.
Health360
Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps (HMA-PHA)
Contact: wolf@health360.org | 203-788-7349
Healthy Minds Alliance AmeriCorps members will serve with crisis call centers throughout the country, to provide expanded support to meet challenges faced by these centers after the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline shifted to the 3-digit number 988. AmeriCorps members are trained in evidence-informed crisis intervention and suicide prevention, to provide direct and immediate support to individuals accessing the local crisis call center’s suicide prevention calls, texts, and chats.
Institute for Advanced Learning and Research
REACH AmeriCorps
Contact: americorps@ialr.org | 434-766-6631
REACH (Regional Engagement to Advance Community Health) AmeriCorps, a program of the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research (IALR), is dedicated to expanding capacity for public health service by providing direct outreach and educational services in the City of Danville, Pittsylvania County, and Caswell County. Members will provide individualized support, addressing the region’s most pressing physical and mental health challenges through a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) lens.
Reading & Math Inc.
National Public Health Corps
Contact: recruitment@ampact.us | 866-859-2825
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide peer support and recovery coaching to individuals working to overcome substance use disorders in Illinois and Virginia. Activities that members may participate in include supporting individuals in recovery with personalized recovery plans; assisting clients in navigating social services resources, programs, and benefit systems; fostering strong relationships with clients to help build their confidence and skills, while encouraging them to have agency over their own recovery; and participating in training and professional development throughout the year, including the Peer Recovery Support training.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Volunteers of America, Inc.
Contact: ccota@voa.org
Volunteers of America (VOA) is a faith-based, nationwide nonprofit organization at the intersection of health, housing, and human services. Public Health AmeriCorps members work as frontline Community Health Workers serving underserved populations across Cook County, IL; Hennepin County, MN; San Juan Municipality, PR; Dallas and Harris Counties, TX, and Alexandria, VA. The position serves as a liaison between health services and the community to facilitate access to comprehensive, quality service and health care delivery. Members participate in community events, help connect clients with community resources, and provide health coaching to individuals.
Washington
Catholic Charities USA
CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program
Contact: ptazewell@catholiccharitiesusa.org | 571-527-3231
Public Health AmeriCorps members will work to connect low-income individuals to healthcare and behavioral services. Positions are located in Austin, TX; St. Louis, MO; Baltimore, MD; Louisville, KY; Atlanta, GA; Camden, NJ; and Nashville, TN.
Jesuit Volunteer Corps Northwest
Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) Northwest
Contact: recruitment@jvcnorthwest.org | 503-335-8202
Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase access to medical care in rural and urban economically challenged communities in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. AmeriCorps members will conduct outreach, navigate service options, and offer companionship in nonprofit and health care consortium sites.
Washington State Department of Employment Security
Washington Service Corps
Contact: wscmail@esd.wa.gov | 1-888-713-6080
One of Washington Service Corps' primary goals through its Public Health AmeriCorps cohort is to help address the digital divide present in low-income and underserved communities that limits access to, and knowledge of, online healthcare information and ability to make telehealth visits with their care provider. Examples of member service activities in this cohort include providing health information, supporting clients in accessing healthcare provider portals to make online appointments and message providers, helping individuals apply for health insurance, and providing referrals to services to address housing or food insecurity, employment needs, etc.
West Virginia
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Damien Ministries, Inc.
We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps
Contact: jeffrey@wethepeoplechwc.org | 202-526-4066
Public Health AmeriCorps members are linked with local community-based organizations and health centers in offering health education and linkages to care focused on HIV/AIDS, COVID-19, and opioid overdose awareness and prevention as well as community education on mental health resources, crisis management, food access and a variety of other service areas. Corps Members receive training to become certified community health workers with opportunities to receive credentialing and other specialized training within public health in the District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, and West Virginia.
Wisconsin
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
Marshfield Clinic Health System
MCHS AmeriCorps Public Health Community Corps
Contact: mchsamericorps@marshfieldclinic.org | 715-221-9128
Public Health AmeriCorps members play a vital role in tackling their communities’ most pressing challenges. They serve hand-in-hand across Wisconsin with people at organizations working to improve health such as a non-profit, clinic, hospital, coalition, public health department, governmental agency or youth-serving organization. As a member, you may coordinate community outreach and engagement; deliver health education and training; complete research, data collection, analysis, and assessments; provide system navigation, referrals, and links to care. Public Health AmeriCorps members will increase their knowledge of public health needs, specifically rural health needs, throughout their service.
Marshfield Clinic Health System
MCHS AmeriCorps Public Health Recovery Corps
Contact: mchsamericorps@marshfieldclinic.org | 715-221-8400
The Recovery Corps program is the first of its kind in Wisconsin that trains individuals to become recovery coaches while enrolled in a national service program. Members undergo training in the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) Coach Academy. Recovery coaches support those affected by their own or someone else’s substance use through one-on-one contact, community education, the development of recovery wellness plans, and initiation of referrals within the MCHS service area across Wisconsin. These members tackle the ever-growing issue of substance use at law enforcement agencies, county jails, public health departments, social service departments, health care organizations, nonprofits, local coalitions, and other government agencies. Recovery Corps members help build healthier communities by reducing the impact of substance use.
OCHIN, Inc.
OCHIN Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: amarj@ochin.org | 503-943-2500
Public Health AmeriCorps members will support public health departments and federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) across Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, and Wisconsin. This opportunity is ideal for those who are interested in training to become a community health worker or data and clinical quality analyst. AmeriCorps members will build the capacity of health agencies, provide telehealth tech support, immunization outreach, and more to improve health outcomes and support the collection of critical disease control and clinical quality data.
Sixteenth Street Community Health Center
Community HealthCorps - Milwaukee, WI
Contact: aisha.coursen@sschc.org | 414-897-5609
Designed to expand health access and improve health literacy, Sixteenth Street Community HealthCorps AmeriCorps members are placed within various departments within the organization as resource navigators and health educators, expanding the scope and depth of care Sixteenth Street Community Health Center provides. Public Health AmeriCorps members will expand the delivery of health and social services in four health care clinics and community venues on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. AmeriCorps members provide education, health screenings, and event facilitation.
United Way Fox Cities
United Way Fox Cities, Inc.
Contact: amanda.ross@unitedwayfoxcities.org | 920-735-5479
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide capacity building services to improve health and well-being and/or address social determinants of health at their host site organization (non-profit, health care system, etc.). Each position description varies based on what the host site needs. Please review the position descriptions for more information. Each individual position can be found on their website. Public Health AmeriCorps members will improve health and well-being in Calumet, Outagamie, and Winnebago Counties, Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Association of Free and Charitable Clinics, Inc.
Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitable Clinics, Inc VI
Contact: Amber.Scarbborough@wafcclinics.org | 608-338-8634
Public Health AmeriCorps members will strengthen Community Health Departments (CHDs) and Free and Charitable Clinics (FCCs) helping them build capacity for their sites and communities through healthcare opportunities throughout Wisconsin. This is achieved by helping implement new systems, obtaining and training volunteers, improving policies and procedures, and caring for patients.
Wyoming
American Heart Association, Inc.
HEARTCorps
Contact: HeartCorps@heart.org | 781-373-4525
HeartCorps™ is an innovative initiative aimed at growing the health workforce and addressing health equity gaps while implementing community-led solutions that will improve health behaviors and reduce cardiovascular risks among rural residents. On a local level, HeartCorps™ has established partnerships with community and clinical organizations and health centers including YMCA’s, Boys and Girls Clubs, Federally Qualified Health Centers, health departments, and public housing authorities. Members will provide much-needed capacity and support by overseeing the development or expansion of self-measured blood pressure initiatives; conducting tobacco, nutrition, and blood pressure screenings; organizing and facilitating community education; promoting healthy lifestyles; and increasing the adoption of evidence-based blood pressure measurement and treatment practices.
AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded more than $76 million to continue building the capacity of the public health workforce. The 89 Public Health AmeriCorps grant recipients will use this federal funding to support more than 4,000 AmeriCorps members across almost all states, Washington, DC, Guam and Puerto Rico.
Program Location State | Organization | Program | Approved Funds | Education Award Amount |
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AR | Our House Inc. | Our House Inc. | $107,059 | $29,580 |
AZ | Arizona State University | BE SAGE: COVID-19 Mitigation for Vulnerable Early Childcare | $269,559 | $73,876 |
AZ | Arizona State University | Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence | $1,551,690 | $424,991 |
AZ | Northern Arizona University | Northern Arizona University | $663,071 | $181,621 |
AZ | Prescott College Inc. | AZ Serve: Public Health Corps | $486,000 | $133,110 |
AZ | West Valley Health Equity | West Valley Health Equity | $398,856 | $110,925 |
CA | County of Los Angeles | Reducing COVID-19 Disparities in Los Angeles County | $1,296,000 | $354,960 |
CA | Ifoster N Ccda Attainment Iru | TAY Public Health AmeriCorps | $1,256,152 | $369,750 |
CA | LA Works | Citizen Action AmeriCorps - LA Works | $1,670,719 | $457,603 |
CA | Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation Inc. | Leeza Gibbons Memory Foundation Inc. | $540,000 | $147,900 |
CA | Reach Out West End | Reach Out CHW Outreach Program | $283,500 | $77,648 |
CA | Safe Passages | Public Health AmeriCorps | $270,000 | $73,950 |
CO | Metro Volunteers | SPARK HEALTH Corps | $205,504 | $56,350 |
CO | Trailhead Institute | Colorado Public Health Works | $756,000 | $207,060 |
CT | Community Health Center Inc. | Healthy Communities | $405,000 | $110,925 |
CT | Health360, Inc. | Healthy Minds Alliance - Public Health AmeriCorps | $4,049,279 | $1,109,250 |
DC | Damien Ministries Inc. | We the People Community Health Worker Academy & Corps | $648,000 | $177,480 |
DC | Latin American Youth Center Inc. | LAYC National Direct AmeriCorps | $215,993 | $59,160 |
DC | The American National Red Cross | Public Health AmeriCorps - American Red Cross | $810,000 | $221,850 |
FL | Collier Health Services Inc. | Collier Health Services Inc. | $269,421 | $73,950 |
GA | Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program Directors Inc. | Association of State and Territorial Chronic Disease Program | $755,998 | $207,060 |
GA | One World Link Inc. | OWL Public Health Corps | $835,031 | $229,245 |
GU | Department of Public Health and Social Services | Public Health AmeriCorps Centralized Call Center | $1,080,000 | $295,800 |
IA | Economic Development Authority Iowa | IEDA AmeriCorps | $413,390 | $113,883 |
ID | Idaho State Univertsity | Gem State Public Health | $1,549,800 | $424,473 |
IL | Association House of Chicago | Association House of Chicago Public Health AmeriCorps | $229,500 | $62,858 |
IL | Gardeneers | Healthy Kids, Healthy Families, Healthy Communities | $675,000 | $184,875 |
IL | Sinai Health System | Sinai AmeriCorps Initiative | $399,109 | $109,594 |
IN | Indiana State Department of Health | AmeriCorps Improving Health Throughout Indiana | $210,600 | $57,681 |
IN | The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis Inc. | Ending the Epidemics | $917,957 | $251,430 |
KS | Unified Government of Wyandotte County | WYCO Public Health Corps | $216,000 | $59,160 |
KY | Family Scholar House Inc. | FSH Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps | $2,648,571 | $725,450 |
KY | Kentucky Health Departments Association Inc. | Kentucky Public Health AmeriCorps | $1,282,500 | $351,263 |
LA | National Network of Public Health Institutes Inc. | NNPHI Climate and Health AmeriCorps Program | $270,000 | $73,950 |
MA | Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc. | Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc. | $432,000 | $118,320 |
MA | Boston Medical Center Corporation | Boston Medical Center - StreetCred | $61,830 | $16,935 |
MA | City of Lawrence | Safe and Healthy Homes in Lawrence and Methuen, MA | $324,000 | $88,740 |
MA | East Boston Community Health Center Corporation | Public Health Corps East Boston | $540,000 | $147,900 |
MA | Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center Inc. | Edward M. Kennedy Community Health Center Inc. | $20,520 | $5,620 |
MA | Epilepsy Foundation New England Inc. | Epilepsy Resource Room Corps | $1,165,308 | $319,168 |
MA | Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe | Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Public Health AmeriCorps Program | $162,000 | $44,370 |
MD | Baltimore Corps Inc. | Baltimore Community Health Corps | $2,160,000 | $591,600 |
ME | Goodwill Industries of Northern New England | GoodwillNNE Public Health AmeriCorps | $1,396,504 | $384,540 |
MI | Cherry Street Services Inc. | Cherry Health AmeriCorps | $400,765 | $110,925 |
MI | Ingham County | ICHD Public Health AmeriCorps Program | $270,000 | $73,950 |
MN | Reading & Math Inc. | Heading Home Corps - Public Health | $2,700,000 | $739,500 |
MN | Reading & Math Inc. | Minnesota Public Health Corps | $4,050,000 | $1,109,250 |
MN | Reading & Math Inc. | National Public Health Corps | $2,700,000 | $739,500 |
MN | Reading & Math Inc. | Recovery Corps - Public Health | $3,375,000 | $924,375 |
MO | Healing Action Network Inc. | Healing Action Network Inc. Public Health Corps | $282,553 | $81,345 |
MO | The Curator of the University of Missouri | Active Lab: Public Health through Physical Activity | $163,043 | $44,740 |
NC | Appalachian State University | App State Public Health Program | $372,289 | $101,977 |
NC | Pamlico Rose Institute for Sustainable Communities | Wellness Corps | $377,872 | $103,530 |
NC | Wake Forest University | Wake Forest University Public Health Corps | $200,879 | $55,463 |
NJ | Montclair State University | Montclair State University Healthy Communities Corps | $731,407 | $200,996 |
NJ | New Jersey Community Development Corp | New Jersey Community Development Corp | $269,843 | $73,950 |
NJ | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey | Rutgers Camden Public Health AmeriCorps | $214,627 | $58,864 |
NM | Roadrunner Food Bank | Roadrunner Food Bank of New Mexico | $53,884 | $14,790 |
NM | Rocky Mountain Youth Corps | RMYC Public Health Crew | $74,949 | $20,706 |
NY | City of New York Office of Mayor | New York City Office of the Mayor | $1,607,002 | $443,700 |
NY | City of Rochester City Hall | Flower City Public Health Corps | $728,951 | $199,665 |
NY | Community Health Care Association of New York State Inc. | CHCANYS NYS Public Health Corps | $2,600,000 | $746,895 |
NY | Concrete Safaris Inc. | PlacemakingCorps | $639,956 | $177,332 |
NY | Public Health Solutions | Public Health Solutions | $108,000 | $29,580 |
NY | Ronald McDonald House of New York Inc. | Improving Child Health Through Integrated Systems of Care | $162,000 | $44,370 |
NY | The Rural Health Network of SCNY Inc. | Rural Health Network of South Central New York | $647,910 | $177,480 |
OH | The Ohio State University | The Ohio State University Office of Sponsored Programs | $809,844 | $221,850 |
OR | FoodCorps Inc. | FoodCorps Public Health AmeriCorps | $5,400,000 | $1,479,000 |
PA | National Nurse-Led Care Consortium | National Nursing Centers Consortium | $306,450 | $83,933 |
PA | The Health Federation of Philadelphia | National Health Corps: Community Health Fellowship | $891,000 | $244,035 |
PR | Oficina para la Promocion y el Desarrollo Humano | Oficina Promocion y Desarrollo Humano | $63,651 | $17,452 |
SC | Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina | Neighbor to Neighbor of South Carolina | $279,312 | $76,908 |
TX | American Heart Association Inc. | HEARTCorps | $2,700,000 | $739,500 |
TX | CHRISTUS Health | CHRISTUS Health HEART Work | $647,986 | $177,480 |
TX | City of Austin | City of Austin - Americorps Public Health | $74,970 | $20,706 |
TX | Equal Heart | Equal Heart Public Health | $1,835,908 | $502,860 |
UT | Association for Utah Community Health | Utah Healthcare Corps | $540,000 | $147,900 |
VA | Blue Ridge Medical Center Inc. | Blue Ridge Medical Center Inc. | $312,659 | $85,634 |
VA | Boat People S.O.S. Inc. | Boat People SOS - National Public Health AmeriCorps | $226,797 | $62,118 |
VA | Catholic Charities USA | CCUSA Healthcare Outreach Program | $314,306 | $88,740 |
VA | City of Richmond | RVA Health Corps | $431,317 | $118,320 |
VA | Institute for Advanced Learning and Research | REACH AmeriCorps | $218,678 | $59,900 |
VA | Volunteers of America | Volunteers of America | $432,000 | $118,320 |
WA | Washington State Department of Employment Security | WA State Employment Security Department | $215,728 | $59,160 |
WI | Marshfield Clinic Inc. | MCHS AmeriCorps Public Health Community Corps | $2,160,000 | $591,600 |
WI | Marshfield Clinic Inc. | MCHS AmeriCorps Public Health Recovery Corps | $810,000 | $221,850 |
WI | United Way Fox Cities Inc. | United Way Fox Cities Inc. | $257,288 | $70,474 |
WI | Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitable Clinics Inc. | Wisconsin Association of Free & Charitable Clinics Inc. | $811,242 | $222,294 |