About Gem State Public Health AmeriCorps

The Gem State Public Health program, at the Institute of Rural Health (IRH) at Idaho State University (ISU), will place 76 AmeriCorps members throughout the state at non-profits and public health organizations.

Gem State Public Health AmeriCorps Program Goals	Primary Tasks
Increase, expand, and enhance the capacity of existing programs and services offered by public health agencies.	-Members may conduct a needs assessment regarding collaborations and partnerships, recruit potential partners, coordinate meetings, design training materials, and presentations, provide other support, and volunteer management.
Increase the number of trained suicide prevention interventionists.	-Conduct 8 ASIST or safeTALK session throughout the state to train 192 people.
Support members’ interest to continue to work in the public health sector.	-Members will be offered opportunities to explore degree or continuing education options. -Members will be offered education on workforce opportunities

Gem State Public Health AmeriCorps Program Goals

Primary Tasks

Increase, expand, and enhance the capacity of existing programs and services offered by public health agencies.

-Members may conduct a needs assessment regarding collaborations and partnerships, recruit potential partners, coordinate meetings, design training materials, and presentations, provide other support, and volunteer management.

Increase the number of trained suicide prevention interventionists.

-Conduct 8 ASIST or safeTALK session throughout the state to train 192 people.

Support members’ interest to continue to work in the public health sector.

-Members will be offered opportunities to explore degree or continuing education options.

-Members will be offered education on workforce opportunities

In addition to the goals listed above, members can help organizations with a variety of tasks to help expand the reach or capacity of existing programs. For example, members can do any of the following:

Provide outreach, case management, training, teaching, tutoring, mediating, cleaning, counseling, recruiting volunteers, client paperwork, preparing for a class, coaching, listening, cooking, health care, and food/clothing distribution.