Resources

Summer 2022 Community Health Assistant Work Plan 

 We encourage you to develop a work plan for the summer together with your community partner or faculty advisor.  Be sure you can answer the following, then enter your responses using the Qualtric survey at  https://umassmed.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4O3VQoJCmUMJMxM  .  Thank you! 

1. Student  

1. Name:  

2. Class:   

3. Preferred email:  

4. Cell phone #  

2. Project Supervisor 

1. Name:  

2. Title:  

3. Email address:  

4. Primary host site:   

3. Brief summary of placement activity:  

4. Learning objectives - what student will gain from experience 

5. Service objectives - what the community/host site will gain from experience 

6. Deliverables – describe and include projected date of completion 

3. Completed Work Plan by May 31

5. Poster presentation by August (tentative) as determined by OUME instructions 

6. Documentation of engaged activities in campus Collaboratory 

Please submit your final responses to:   https://umassmed.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4O3VQoJCmUMJMxM  

We strive to create "right-sized" placement opportunities that respond to community-identified needs.  Dr. Haley is engaged in community health assessment and improvement planning processes in central and north central MA, and has developed a list of potential projects based on conversations with partners who are working daily with Worcester-area residents navigating barriers to health. 

The Placement Opportunity list represents ideas that can be shaped into placements during initial conversations with partners.  Every placement is different because it depends on the skills and interests the learner brings to the experience.  Some project types we have seen work successfully:

Review and update of websites, social media presence, handouts, educational programming

Planning and staffing community fairs, workshops or other events

Conducting data collection  or audits for quality improvement projects

Exploration of other models of community- and population-based responses to SDOH (for example, how do they manage lack of affordable housing in other cities and how do the consequences for the unhoused differ from those produced by the model here?)

Laying the foundation for a longitudinal project to be completed during pathway project time and later clerkships

TBD - this may only apply to those receiving AHEC funding; details will appear here before May 12

Please enter SCHA-funded and any of your other community-engaged activities in the Collaboratory database at https://he.cecollaboratory.com/umms ! Enter as a proxy, and invite your supervising faculty or staff member to join and approve it. If you're not working with another faculty or staff person, list Dr. Haley as the owner and she'll approve and publish the listing.  The Office for Community and Government Relations hosts tutorial materials on their intranet site.  Thanks! 

The OUME will share a standard template and directions from the library.  Additional resources can be found below.