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COMMUNITY HEALTH INTERNSHIP PROJECT
Patricia Clemente 
COMMUNITY HEALTH INTERNSHIP PROJECT
 Jennifer Singer is a community health science major. She conducted her community health internship at the Hudson Perinatal Consortium at Planned Parenthood. She said ...
"Hello, this is Jennifer Singer, I just wanted to post answers to questions that were asked by Dr. Rosado."
Question: What did I learn in the internship experience?
Answer:
"This internship provided me with the opportunity to enhance my professional growth through supervised and practical work experience related to community public health education. This internship gave me the opportunity to work on research, organizational, and presentational skills that were very useful and valuable in my future career."
RAISING COMMUNITY AWARENESS
Timothy Santos' conducted his community health internship at the Garfield Renewal Company in Jersey City. The offices of the Garfield Avenue Renewal Company were established to develop public awareness and community relations with the residents in the area. Timothy's job was to "raise community awareness about the Pennsylvania and Pittsburg Growth Industries (PPG)". Additionally, Timothy was involved in securing a computer safe network within the office for easy sharing of information and resources for the employees. According to Timothy, he found this experience both challenging and rewarding. The internship exposed Timothy to problems in the community, in particular conflicts between company, city authorities, and residents. As a storefront Timothy learned to communicate to the community with various people in the community. Mr. Santos added that this experience "allowed him to demonstrate the acquisition of knowledge and skills from courses in the major".
Glorimar Mendez
is a community health science major. She is taking the HLTH 432 Field Internship in Community Health course. Ms. Mendez was placed at the
 Morristown Health Department in New Jersey. Here is a portion of the internship project. Hello...This is Glorimar Mendez. I just wanted to post the answers to the questions asked by Dr. Rosado.
Question: What is the role of your internship agency in the community? Since my internship agency was the Morristown Health Department they have many duties when it comes to the community. They are responsible for wholesale and retail food establishment inspections, conducting epidemiological investigations, monitoring streams, lakes, and groundwater, inspecting pools and spas, investigating air and noise pollution, investigating reports of disease outbreaks, addressing public health concerns, investigating pest and rodent complaints, investigating debris and garbage, screenings, immunization audits, health fairs, emergency management, and public health education. The array of responsibilities is so wide that I probably left some things out but that is the majority of their role in the community.
Question: What is the role of the health specialist in program planning, development, and implementation?
The health specialist in the Morristown Health Department was the public health nurse. The town of Morristown also has a health educator but she was located in the hospital and I was not able to see her at work. At the time of my internship, the public health nurse was trying to develop and implement a health program that involved a weight loss program for all town employees. She was testing it on the employees to then implement in on the community. She was attending meetings on obesity and researching information to understand the problem and come up with ways to conduct the program. She was also getting information from an organization on weight loss and received a lot of helpful booklets and tapes from them. She also worked on finding a location for the program, time line for the program, and creating a profile for the participants to fill out on the first day. She had to basically do all the work. She did a needs assessment, developed a focus and learning objectives, and found education materials. Once the program begins, she will also be implementing it herself.
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