Summer Internship/Job w/Migrant Farmworkers

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Please distribute widely:

2007

Summer Job or Summer Internship Opportunities:

Health

Promotion/Education Targeting Migrant Farmworkers

Two paid

positions (Environmental/Occupational Health)

Two

volunteer positions (Prenatal Health/Domestic Violence Prevention)

MPH Internship

Option

Place: Four

positions based on the Eastern Shore of Virginia

(Accomack & Northampton Counties)

Time:

May-August, 2007 (14 weeks)

Salary:

$ 480/week for Environmental Health positions;

Prenatal Health/Domestic Violence Prevention positions are volunteer

positions.

Requirements: Spanish/English

proficiency, health promotion/education experience, personal car.

Preferred: Spanish/English

fluency, strong educational background in health promotion,

experience/knowledge of Hispanic farm worker population.

Work

description: Health promotion work targeting Spanish-speaking

farmworkers on the migrant labor camps.

FOR TWO PAID POSITIONS: Work

will be environmental health promotion (including sanitation, lead, and

pesticide safety) targeting farmworkers in their homes, training and

supervising lay health advisors, collecting KAB information, program

evaluation.

FOR TWO VOLUNTEER POSITIONS: Work

targets prenatal women, women of childbearing age, and their sexual

partners and includes facilitating presentations/discussions on domestic

violence prevention. Other health promotion topics include family

planning, HIV/AIDS and other STD’s, individual and group prenatal

health education, prenatal case management, collecting KAB information and focus

group discussions on issues related to prenatal health.

Mail, fax, or e-mail cover letter and

resume by 5 p.m. (EST) Monday, February 5, 2007 to:

(Note: Resumes received

by 2/5/07 will get first priority review, but applications will be accepted

until positions are filled).

Ruth Brown

Rural

Family Development Phone:

757-787-7755 (ext. 303)

106-B

Market Street Fax:

757-787-3735

Onancock,

VA 23417 E-mail:

Brown@...

Amy K. Liebman, MPA

Migrant Clinicians Network

5210 River Circle

Quantico, MD 21856

410.860.9850

aliebman@...

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