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16. Get Ur Good On Grants - Youth Service America and Miley Cyrus
Deadline: February 22, 2010

Youth Service America (YSA) and Miley Cyrus have partnered to create Get Ur Good On, a social network that brings together youth to support each other in their mission to do "good" in their communities. Get Ur Good On Grants are used to support youth-led service initiatives on Global Youth Service Day, April 23-25, 2010.

YSA’s Get Ur Good On Grants will award one hundred $500 grants to projects addressing important community needs such as poverty, education, and environmental sustainability. Children and youth ages five to 25 are eligible to apply.

For more information and to apply for this funding, go to: http://www.ysa.org/grants/announcements/get-ur-good-grants-launched

JOB POSTINGS

17. Manager of Patient and Family Services – American Cancer Society

The Manager of Patient and Family Services (PAFS) plays an important role in maintaining relationships with regional priority health systems and the implementation of on-site navigation programs.  The PAFS Manager also ensures access to quality services and programs and maintains a network of volunteers/survivors to ensure the region’s capacity to respond to healthy system’s referrals and survivor needs.  In addition, the Manager provides direct support to survivors in partnership with the Patient Service Center and responds to the administrative needs of the department.  Assumes responsibility for meeting Performance Achievement Communication Tool (P.A.C.T.) priorities and mentoring Patient and Family Services team regarding PACT objectives and goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
* Partners with the Director of PAFS to sustain effective relationships with priority healthy systems, consistent with on-site navigation.
* Recruits Survivor/Volunteers to provide a consistent quality on-site presence in selected health systems.
* In part, participates with Director in the orientation and maintaining quality services to increase support for systematic referrals. In addition, supervise and create opportunities for shadowing and enhance capacity of volunteer/survivors.
* Develops effective relationships with Patient Service Center to ensure increasing referrals and promote the value of ACS in the continuum of care.

Qualifications and Key Competencies:
* Comfort in Health System environment.
* Navigation skills and awareness of community resources.
* Ability to supervise both paid and volunteer Patient Navigators.
* Dexterity with Seibel and Bobj environment.
* Two-year degree or equivalent experience in health related field.
* Ability to maintain confidentiality.
* Regional and Division wide travel.
* Flexible work hours with some weekends and evening hours.

If you are interested in applying, please contact: Olevia Brown, Office Manager, Eastern Division, American Cancer Society, 2330 Eastchester Road, 3rd Fl., Bronx, NY  10469
718-547-5064 x2100
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18. Municipal Health Jobs

For a listing of job openings with the NYC Dept. of Health and Mental Hygiene, go to http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/hr/career.shtml
For a listing of job openings with the NYC Health and Hospitals Corporation, go to http://employment.nychhc.org