This award funds the approved 2022?23 public health americorps program

No member may enroll prior to the approved start date of the member enrollment period. Your 2022?23 regulatory match is 0%. Damien ministries proposes to have 16 americorps members who will be supported and trained to serve as certified community health workers providing basic health and medical education and preventive care promotional demonstration specifically focused on covid-19 health awareness and vaccination information along with other community health issues including training on opioid overdose prevention in the washington DC metro area, virginia, maryland and west virginia countries including charles county, frederick county, montgomery county, prince george's county arlington county, fairfax county, loudoun county, and prince william county. At the end of the first program year, the americorps members will be responsible for having completed a community assessment of their target service demographic, organized at least four community health education events or activities, completed 80 hours of community health worker training, and completed a minimum of 1700 hours of practice in community. In addition, the americorps members will each leverage 120 volunteers who will receive community health related training and host community education and health screening events. Following their year of service we project that 60% of the americorps members will continue working within community health or public health related roles and another 10% of members will pursue advanced education.