Applications due February 11, 2024 by 5pm EST
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Organization(s):
Healthy Savannah
Project Webpage(s):
healthysavannah.org
Project Lead(s):
Paula Kreissler
Project Work Location(s)*:
1602 Drayton Street, Savannah, GA 31401 or 428 Bull Street, Savannah 31401
*Interns are required to live in or within commuting distance from this location, unless otherwise noted.
Project Workdays and Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9-5
Weekends: Some events on weekends. Interns are expected to attend and will interface with the community. The intern may adjust their hours during the week when attending a weekend event.
Keywords:
Health Equity, Data-driven, Food Systems
Project Description:
Healthy Savannah is a recipient of the CDC Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health Grant (REACH), which focuses on nutrition, physical activity, breastfeeding, and adult immunizations in low wealth communities of color. The interns would have the opportunity to engage with these four aspects of Healthy Savannah’s work, but would work most closely with the Savannah Chatham Food Policy Council (SCFPC). Healthy Savannah is a public/private partnership of more than 200 business, nonprofits, faith-and community-based organizations, schools, and healthcare and government agencies. Healthy Savannah’s work and membership reach deeply into the community with strong representation from residents. Healthy Savannah has over 17 years experience with policy, systems, and environmental changes and is a two-time recipient of the CDC’s Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health grant 2018-2023 & 2023-2028. The 2023-2028 REACH grant will bring over $5 million to communities in Savannah and Chatham County to address health disparities and improve health equity in the County.
The SCFPC works to address the top food system priorities of Chatham County residents. The SCFPC will be a vector for addressing nutrition security, health equity, and food systems related issues in the community. The council will take decisive steps to move the needle on health equity and food access in Chatham County through policy, systems, and environmental changes. Policies provide a long-term and sustainable change for the community.
Intern Contributions:
Student interns will be responsible for the following:*
– Accurately documenting meeting minutes for the SCFPC
– Engaging in primary data collection in the community to expand the organizations understanding of the community’s needs.
– Complete a minimum of 30-40 community surveys per month
– Attend a minimum of 2 community engagement events per month
– Secondary data collection/scan of other Food Policy Councils in the US: case studies, research articles, and identifying evidence-based best practices for FPC
– Participating in conversations with key stakeholders related to SCFPC efforts
– Social media dissemination on the topics of nutrition, physical activity, lactation and adult immunizations
*This list may not capture all possible responsibilities as additional needs may develop closer to the summer internship period.
Interns will benefit from working with the organization through:
– Gaining community engagement experience,
– Understanding of how to build sustainable community relationships across organizations and sectors
– Hands on engagement with policy language, adoption, and changes
– Exposure to community feedback through survey collection
– Engagement with a well-established community coalition of over 200 partners
– Gaining experience with the real world application policy, systems and environmental change in public health
– Diverse exposure to health equity work in the space of nutrition, physical activity, breastfeeding, and adult immunization
– Experience creating effective social media reels, posts and other educational tools that are tailored to the target audience
– The understanding of a coalition work and the opportunity to implement theorized public health skills, tools, and research instruments in a community setting
Project Learning Goals:
– Complete 5-8 social media posts related to the progress, success, and news related to the SCFPC
– Engage in primary data collection
– Gain an increased understanding of the purpose, mission, and objectives of a FPC
– Understand the social determinants of health
Top Required or Desired Intern Skills, Knowledge, and/or Majors:
Healthy Savannah is seeking students with the following skills and attributes; self-starter, has good time-management, community focused, diligent, and flexible. It is preferred that students have experience with content creation and visual communications for social media content and are familiar with platforms like Canva. Students pursuing a degree in public health, health sciences, social work, nutrition or other related fields are preferred but not necessary. Students pursuing a bachelors, masters, or PhD level degrees are all welcome. Additional experience in community based settings is preferred but not required.
Intern Deliverables**:
– Create a minimum of 2 social media posts or reels per week with guidance from Healthy Savannah Communications manager related to the Savannah-Chatham Food Policy Council. The SCFPC will be the primary focus, but students will be expected to create content related to the other areas of the REACH grant: Nutrition, Physical Activity, Breastfeeding, and Adult Immunizations.
– Compile a detailed resource list of other FPCs in the United States, their work, evidence-based strategies to improve the food system in the United States etc.
– A report that documents stakeholder engagement alongside the Healthy Savannah Nutrition Manager
– 1-2 page summary of the work completed and lessons learned from the internship experience
– Creation of a 1-2 minute video summarizing their experience with Healthy Savannah that will be published on Healthy Savannah Social Media
– Organized and succinct SCFPC meeting notes
– Other deliverables may be identified closer to the time of the internship
**All interns are required to attend two in-person events, the PIN Summer Internship Opening and Closing Ceremonies:
– Opening Ceremony in Macon, GA on Friday, May 10th.
– Closing Ceremony at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, GA on Friday, August 2nd.
Applications due February 11, 2024 by 5pm EST
Apply: Click here to apply