Alliance for Positive Change
Volunteer Non US Citizen
Possibly, if they have the required Visas.
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Spanish Language Preferences:
Location Details
Description
Alliance for Positive Change is a leading multi service organization that provides low-income New Yorkers living with HIV and other chronic conditions with access to quality health care, housing, harm reduction, coaching, and renowned Peer training and job placement programs that cultivate leadership and economic mobility. Alliance opened in 1991, at the height of the HIV crisis—a welcoming community of transformation and opportunity. Today, we deliver on the promise of positive change with services and resources that equip people to navigate systemic inequities and achieve health and well-being. Our plan is rooted in Alliance’s commitment to a level of organizational transformation that enables us to do even more to: -Help our participants navigate entrenched inequities and access the level and quality of care every New Yorker deserves. -Reduce health disparities and inequitable health outcomes among low-income communities of color, including women, LGBTQ+ people, people who use drugs, and older adults. -Strongly contribute to urgent public health goals of New York State, New York City, and the communities we serve: reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and ER visits, ending the HIV epidemic, responding to the opioid crisis, and much more.
Student Role
Tasks include: Harm reduction support (largest part of the role, must be comfortable being exposed to substance use); screening clients for HIV/HCV testing; participating in group sessions; street outreach and prevention education at events; assembling safer sex/harm reduction kits; data entry.
Work Schedule
9am-5pm Monday-Friday, possibly outreach events on the weekends and late nights.
Orientation
We will do one on one interviews with the students, and a group session to meet our team about a month before they arrive. They will come to our Midtown office to do a brief introduction, and then escorted to any sites that they will start at. Each of our sites have their own structure and protocols and they will receive training. Students will also be required to complete required online trainings and provide certificates prior to starting with us.
Housing Information
Students will stay at EHS intern housing and take public transportation to their site each day.
Spanish Language Proficiency
Conversational
Other Language Proficiencies
We would greatly benefit from having students proficient in French, Creole, Mandarin, and Russian, but not required.
Drivers License
Yes
Student Preferences
Interest in harm reduction and substance use; interest in public health; comfortable taking initiative; curious and asks questions if uncertain about their tasks; somewhat technological.