UACS CHOP HT Associate (Part-Time), Netter Center for Community Partnerships

Posted by Netter Center for Community Partnerships on August 27, 2024

Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is the University’s primary vehicle for advancing civic and community engagement at Penn. It brings together the resources and assets of both the University and the wider community to help solve universal problems such as poverty, health inequities, environmental sustainability, and inadequate, unequal education as they are manifested in the University’s local geographic area of West Philadelphia and Philadelphia at large. The Netter Center develops and helps implement democratic, mutually transformative, place-based partnerships between Penn and West Philadelphia that advance research, teaching, learning, practice, and service and improve the quality of life on campus and in the community. The Netter Center works with and serves as a model for other higher education institutions across the United States and around the world.

The Netter Center’s university-assisted community schools (UACS) is a strategy to educate, engage, empower, and serve all members of the community in which the school is located and engage students (K-16+) in real world, community problem solving learning. UACS collaborates with partners to advance teaching, research, learning and service, as well as the civic development of their students.

Job Description

The Netter Center for Community Partnerships is currently seeking a UACS CHOP HT Project Associate to help support a range of school-based mental health partnerships, including those between CHOP and the Netter Center as part of CHOP’s Healthier Together Initiative. This position would support two main programs: (1) Peer support groups for grief and loss for K-12 students, in partnership with the Uplift Center for Grieving Children (Uplift) (2) Stress Less Initiative (SLI) program for staff, in partnership with the Center for Violence Prevention. The responsibilities of the Project Associate include a wide range of tasks including direct service, coordination and administration of program implementation, as well as data collection.

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