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Essential Program Components:
Core Training: Four hours of a highly interactive workshop, 25 hours of service learning and two 1-hour reflection sessions.
Core Curriculum Modules: |
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- Eliminating Health Disparities by Working in an Interdisciplinary Team
- Ethics and Legal Issues
- Health Promotion and Health Education
- Health Literacy
- Information Management
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Intermediate Training: First Aid Certification, 25 hours of service learning and two 1-hour reflection session
Advanced Training: CPR Certification, 25 hours of service learning and two 1-hour reflection sessions
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Supervision and guidance of CHSC participants by dedicated AHEC staff members is a critical ingredient to service learning. AHEC staff supervision is designed to ensure that students have meaningful experiences. Without some outside support, many community agencies do not have the capacity to provide appropriate supervision and mentoring. Instead, CHSC experiences are designed to meet identified community needs and at the same time complement a student’s academic coursework. Service learning provides a community-based application of theoretical concepts. By experiencing the practical application of the theory taught in classrooms, students perform better academically. Through these experiences, students are provided opportunities to exercise leadership and to enhance their competitiveness in the job market.
In order to design appropriate projects, that meet the learning needs of the CHSC participants and the health needs of a particular target population, needs assessments are conducted for groups of people by race, ethnicity, culture, religion, or other identified group characteristics. |
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Central Area Health Education Center continues to engage students in workforce development and career readiness. In the months of February and March 2009 we had a Capital Workforce Partners reunion with our summer students. During this reunion we engaged the student in focus groups and activities by conducting the following: resume workshops, mock interviews, personal development trainings, and extracurricular activities. The students wrote a list of the areas in their academics that they needed help in improving and through these workshops we were able to help the students improve academically and build plans for their future. We enjoyed helping and engaging the students and look forward to continuing to keep in touch and provide support for the students.
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Central AHEC, Inc. is currently recruiting college-age students on the Central CT State University, University of Hartford and Capital Community College campuses. |
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If you are interested in our program, please contact Karen Piantek:
Phone: 860.920.5149, ext. 104
Email: chsc@centralctahec.org |
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