FYI.
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