HCC/Adolescent Wellness Intern
Tax deductible
Salinas, California is a town challenged by many youth health issues at the same time challenged to harness so much potential. Our community has a high teen pregnancy rate as well as a high teen gang participation rate. The two factors are connected by a lack of awareness of rich rewarding opportunities for teens, as well as an awareness about those opportunities. We need ways to build our community capital, in this case human capital.
In conjuction with the national organization Health Care Connections, several organizations in Salinas are collaborrating to build that community capital within the same "at-potential" group of teens.
For the second time in two years our local hospital has been awarded at least one local college paid intern to spend the summer with us exploring the feasibility of an Adolescent Wellness Center in Salinas. This collaborrative undertaking will lead to a place in town where teens will have a chance to receive "Healing Informed" advice and care as they grow and mature in this, what can appear as a stressed, environment. Ideally, with the correct mentoring, the adolescents will be able to help themselves acheive the health and well-being that they have defined. The proposed Center will be non-traditional, teen-friendly and where they, themselves, are comfortable. Mind you, there are presently no school-based clinics in Salinas proper.
The collaborrators include the local Federally Qualified Health Center, Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, and the Salinas Teen Health Study, dubbed A-Crecer by the local teens. These are the two sites where the teens will participate in Community-based Participatory (Action) Research as well as outreach event planning and participation. The research project the intern undertakes will be charged with delivering a feasibility study of the development of an adolescent wellness center for local youth.
This gofundme effort is to offset the costs of the internship stipend for 1-2 FTE interns, who we have already selected. BTW, both are Salinas natives. Please consider donating to this wonderful opportunity to promote health equity for Salinas, and even health for the up-and-coming youth of our city.
Thank you, and please be sure to note HCC/Adolescent Wellness Fund on your donation.
#hccadolescentwellness
The HCC/Adolescent Wellness Intern Fund is one of many health equity donation programs within the Natividad Medical Foundation. These funds are all to eliminate disparate health outcomes in Salinas and Monterey County
https://www.natividadfoundation.org/programs/
In conjuction with the national organization Health Care Connections, several organizations in Salinas are collaborrating to build that community capital within the same "at-potential" group of teens.
For the second time in two years our local hospital has been awarded at least one local college paid intern to spend the summer with us exploring the feasibility of an Adolescent Wellness Center in Salinas. This collaborrative undertaking will lead to a place in town where teens will have a chance to receive "Healing Informed" advice and care as they grow and mature in this, what can appear as a stressed, environment. Ideally, with the correct mentoring, the adolescents will be able to help themselves acheive the health and well-being that they have defined. The proposed Center will be non-traditional, teen-friendly and where they, themselves, are comfortable. Mind you, there are presently no school-based clinics in Salinas proper.
The collaborrators include the local Federally Qualified Health Center, Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, and the Salinas Teen Health Study, dubbed A-Crecer by the local teens. These are the two sites where the teens will participate in Community-based Participatory (Action) Research as well as outreach event planning and participation. The research project the intern undertakes will be charged with delivering a feasibility study of the development of an adolescent wellness center for local youth.
This gofundme effort is to offset the costs of the internship stipend for 1-2 FTE interns, who we have already selected. BTW, both are Salinas natives. Please consider donating to this wonderful opportunity to promote health equity for Salinas, and even health for the up-and-coming youth of our city.
Thank you, and please be sure to note HCC/Adolescent Wellness Fund on your donation.
#hccadolescentwellness
The HCC/Adolescent Wellness Intern Fund is one of many health equity donation programs within the Natividad Medical Foundation. These funds are all to eliminate disparate health outcomes in Salinas and Monterey County
https://www.natividadfoundation.org/programs/
Organizer
John Silva
Organizer
Salinas, CA
Natividad Medical Foundation
Registered nonprofit
Donations are typically 100% tax deductible in the US.
