County Government Meyer announces opening of software procedure for Delaware Well being Corps members, names Tonya Richardson as System Director
April 12, 2021
New Castle, DE – New Castle County Executive Matt Meyer announced currently that the county will start out accepting purposes for National Wellness Corps Delaware Associates for the 2021 Pilot Program Cohort. To apply, possible applicants ought to pay a visit to application.nationalhealthcorps.org.
“This once again puts New Castle County on the forefront of fighting this pandemic,” said Meyer. “Starting right now, we are actively recruiting folks from the hardest strike communities across our state to increase their hand to provide. This is a special prospect to start out your vocation or change your career to have an impression on our county for decades to come.”
New Castle County will work this pilot as an AmeriCorps system applying federal CARES Act resources, and member routines will focus entirely on ongoing COVID-19 reaction, together with vaccine systems and addressing health inequities involved with the pandemic. The pilot plan will supply Users a $18,000 dwelling stipend for 1,200 hour provider time period ending on December 31, 2021, and will also supply overall health coverage, assistance with childcare and transportation if desired for the duration of service, and an Schooling Award at the completion of the assistance phrase.
Nationwide Wellness Corps Delaware will be led by application director Tonya Richardson. Richardson is a New Castle County native who has served in organizational management roles with the Metropolitan Wilmington City League, Girls Inc. of Delaware and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate. Most recently, she served under Mayor Mike Purzycki and Wilmington City Council. She is also an AmeriCorps alumna, graduating from the charter class of Community Allies Delaware and has because managed a number of AmeriCorps courses in Delaware like the Redding Junior Scholars Program at the College of Delaware and LEAP for Children of Connecticut.
Legislative & Community Director Tanya Richardson gives remarks throughout a Group Conversations Party Tuesday, Might. 21, 2019, at Highlands Elementary School in Wilmington DE. Photograph By Saquan Stimpson
New Castle County is residence to the pilot growth of the Nationwide Overall health Corps plan into Delaware. National Health Corps is an AmeriCorps National Direct application whose mission is to maximize entry to overall health treatment to underserved communities, advertise health, decrease wellbeing treatment prices and acquire new healthcare experts.
Possible Members’ assignments involve capability-constructing and direct provider operate including roles as Treatment Coordinators, Wellbeing Educators, Circumstance Managers, Patient Navigators and Outreach Coordinators at some of the state’s most very well-recognized and revolutionary nonprofit corporations, who are by now assembly the needs of Delawareans in the throes of the pandemic.
County Executive Meyer, along with Senators Chris Coons and Tom Carper and Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester declared this new program in January.
Compared with several AmeriCorps applications about the country and even amongst the other internet sites in the Countrywide NHC Community, the Delaware application will only accept purposes from individuals who are citizens of New Castle County. County Executive Meyer thinks that this critical distinction in software demands exponentially increases the program’s capability to develop into a workforce progress and job exploration chance for New Castle County people. The other needs to implement are simply just that candidates have earned their High College Diploma or GED and are at least 18 many years old. Once vetted, productive candidates ought to also apparent legal background checks and meet citizenship necessities.
Any New Castle County resident who is interested in occupation exploration or continuing their career in local community wellness, would like to knowledge a profound option in grass-roots and neighborhood-primarily based nonprofits, or is fascinated in remaining a part of the movement to aid eradicate COVID-19 in Delaware is invited to check out the launch of the [nationalhealthcorps.org]National Overall health Corps new national site on Monday, April 12, 2021 to discover far more and use. Programs will be approved starting April 12. Interviews will get started upon receipt of programs and the software will get started in mid-May. Apply [application.nationalhealthcorps.org]listed here.
Founded in 1994, and administered by the Health and fitness Federation of Philadelphia, the NHC has 119 users serving at web-sites in Chicago, New York, Florida, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and San Francisco. NHC users serve at group host web pages which includes group wellness centers, overall health departments, universities, and group-centered general public overall health companies.