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As a PHE Health Educator, you will act as a near-peer to fellow young people. HEs learn workshops, receive training on mindset and facilitation skills, and deliver workshops/health information and content to young people. This content will be delivered via live virtual workshops, live chat Q&A, social media platforms (TikTok, youtube, Instagram). The workshops and content will center health ,primarily socio-emotional learning with a large emphasis on equity and social justice.
Duties to perform
Key skills and competencies
The ideal candidate
Someone committed to the pillar of PHE: health education and socio-emotional learning that centers young people made vulnerable by social inequities.
Available and/or required working hours
Duties to perform
- PHE Health Educators will:
- Provide a needed service to public high school students who are not receiving health education
- Help build an effective, replicable model of health education
- Undergo Teaching Skills Evaluations (TSEs) for workshops to continue to track improvement
- Learn PHE health content and how to teach them effectively
- Attend the mandatory volunteer orientation
- Attend the mandatory training retreat on a pre-designated weekend
- Attend mandatory weekly Workshop Group meetings
- Incorporate direction and evaluation from their staff members in order to develop and improve their teaching skills
- Support the PHE program through additional volunteer opportunities
- Build quality relationships with the students in your class
- TBD- leaving open for describing any specific connection to case management,
- Occasional Opportunities:
- Attend PHE's annual Career Development Event and other professional development opportunities PHE coordinates with professionals from other organizations
- Attend or support on advocacy opportunities throughout the year
Key skills and competencies
- Socio-emotional learning
- Mental health information
- Professional development skills
- Learning management
- Collaboration and teamwork
- Teaching/Facilitation skills
- Social justice and advocacy action
The ideal candidate
Someone committed to the pillar of PHE: health education and socio-emotional learning that centers young people made vulnerable by social inequities.
Available and/or required working hours
- Hours of Operation: Monday-Friday 8 AM-4 PM
- Pre-Service: 15-17 hours (September)
- Attend an 8-10 hour orientation and Health Educator training retreat.
- Receive additional training from staff for orientation, partnership management, ways of working
- Complete a Teaching Skills Evaluation (30-45 min) prior to teaching in order to get a baseline of areas for improvement
- After Orientation, ~15 hours/week (October-December- approximately )
- Weekly Independent Prep-Time (approximately 1-2 hours/week)
- Utilize this time to become familiar with the upcoming workshop content and prepare getting
- Add an additional hour for prep-time if you’ve been tasked with facilitating your upcoming workshop group meeting
- Weekly Workshop Group Meeting (1-1.5 hours/week)
- Attend one workshop group meeting each week with your local workshop group meeting to build community, cover logistics, practice, give/get additional training and feedback.
- Partnership Management (30 min/week)
- Regularly communicate with partners
- Direct-Service (4-5 hours/week)
- Depending on availability between 8 AM-3 PM, deliver workshops each week to the same students at your assigned school/s.
- Personal Project (2-4 hours/week)
Requirement Details
Wondering if you should register to volunteer? Based on the CDC guidelines, we are asking you the following questions:
- Have you been exposed to someone who has been diagnosed with COVID-19? See the CDC’s risk assessment guidance.
- Do you have symptoms consistent with COVID-19? Symptoms can include a cough or shortness of breath or at least two of the following: Fever, Chills, Repeated shaking with chills, Muscle pain, Headache, Sore throat, New loss of taste or smell. See the CDC’s symptom information.
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