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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