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Ingham County Health Department AmeriCorps Program
Ingham County Health Department AmeriCorps Program
The Ingham County Health Department (ICHD) AmeriCorps Program hosts VISTA, State & National and Public Health AmeriCorps Members that serve throughout Ingham County. https://health.ingham.org/health/community_health,_planning_and_partnerships/americorps.php
ICHD VISTA AmeriCorps Program
Contact: Casey Paskus, cpaskus@ingham.org
The Ingham County Health Department AmeriCorps VISTA Program places VISTA members at host organizations, or host sites, throughout Ingham County to focus on project goals related to economic opportunity, education, and healthy futures. Members in the VISTA program commit to a year-long, full-time position with a sponsor organization, often nonprofits, faith-based and community organizations, and public agencies and have the unique charge of helping build their sponsoring organization’s capacity through organizational, administrative, and financial capacity.
ICHD Healthy Homes Restore Corps (State AmeriCorps)
Contact: Jalen Bell, jbell2@ingham.org
Healthy Homes Restore Corps provides direct service through facilitation of housing workshops, distribution of weatherization resources, and engaging community members in one-on-one counseling assessments to curate a healthy home environment in the Greater Lansing area. That also includes reviewing the regulation of local renting practices for tenants across the region and finding ways to connect with landlords and tenants to create better stewardship and mitigation strategies for health hazard prevention.
ICHD Public Health AmeriCorps Program
Contact: Margie Cole, MCole2@ingham.org
Public Health AmeriCorps members will provide capacity building support to organizations in the Capital Region (Ingham, Clinton and Eaton Counties) in the areas of healthcare access, racial equity, community resilience, and public health workforce development.