Agriculture Career Collaborative
Overview:
Agriculture Careers Collaborative (ACC) is a stimulating and pioneering connection between high school students and teaching partners in agriculture. The program is constructed for students to explore careers in agriculture. ACC cultivates students by providing vision and creating a sense of purpose in their scholastic future to help them achieve their highest potential. The program offers a chance to develop eloquent correlations among the selected cohort of high school students and mentors with an agriculture background.
The program is designed to educate individuals in 10th-12th grade. The program will provide an independent experience of significance and worth to the individuals part of the program.
Mission:
The Mission of Agriculture Careers Collaborative is to provide experience in the various fields related to agriculture, offer mentorship, and teach a compelling curriculum to minorities in under-resourced schools.
Goals:
- To engage high schools in project-based concentration with interests related to agriculture
- To increase high school graduation rates in partner schools
- Provide a display of a diverse range of agriculture-related career pathways
This curriculum is a 6-8 weeks designed to introduce students to different facets of the agriculture industry. Students will gain knowledge on the history of agriculture, agriculture products and by-products, the future of agriculture, biotechnology in agriculture, and careers in agriculture. Instruction and student learning will occur throughout the lectures, group discussions, student projects, and the writing.
Atlanta Doula Connect
Vision Statement: Communities working together to eliminate health disparities and social determinants of health inequity.
Mission Statement: To provide health disparities education and advocacy, build collaborative partnerships and develop best practice models with low-resourced communities and those who work with them to advance equity in health and well-being.
Our Values:
- Leadership: We listen and learn from our community. We approach the systemic causes of community problems and mobilize resources for the common good.
- Equity: We endeavor for health equity, and focus primarily, but not exclusively, on vulnerable populations in the Metro Atlanta area.
- Inclusiveness: We practice and champion inclusiveness in the community at large. We honor diverse strengths, needs, voices, and backgrounds of all members of the UHI and partnering communities.
- Accountability: We serve as stewards for our community investments and honor the charitable intentions of donors to meet current and future research-based community-led needs. We are duty-bound to the highest standards of ethics, integrity, service, and fiduciary responsibility.
Key Strategies and Objectives:
- Education: To train current and future health practitioners to serve in a socially complex world, better able to understand and cooperatively address the problems facing many of their patients/clients and the community at large.
- Community Engagement: Strengthen the capacity and create a sustainable infrastructure of health and community systems to reduce health disparities and create an enabling environment for community health and well-being.
- Research: Develop and test culturally competent and community informed interventions that hold to the highest standards of excellence in community engagement and scholarly research.
Interrupting Violence in Youth and Young Adults (IVYY) Project
Overview:
Dr. Randi Smith launched the Interrupting Violence in Youth and Young Adults (IVYY) Project at Grady Health System in January 2023. IVYY offers comprehensive trauma-informed, therapeutic care to people between the ages of 14-34 who have been gunshot. IVYY features credible messengers, or Violence Intervention Specialists (VIs), who are embedded in the hospital and connect with patients at their bedside to provide immediate support through peer-led mentorship, coaching, and advocacy throughout their healing process. Program goals include promoting wellness, connecting patients to resources, and preventing re-injury.
What is Circle of Safety?
Circle of Safety is a cross-sector convening of more than 70 organizations and individuals working to prevent gun violence in Atlanta. We gather quarterly to connect, coordinate resources, and build a robustcommunity violence intervention (CVI) ecosystem. We are committed to building the political and community will for a comprehensive action plan that prioritizes a public health and community-based approach to preventing gun violence in Atlanta.
Click HERE to watch the 1-year Milestone of IVYY:
Related Articles About IVYY Project:
- Interrupting Violence in Youth and Young Adults in Atlanta
- The IVYY Project at Grady Awarded $100,000 Grant from the Everytown Community Safety Fund to Sustain Critical Gun Violence Prevention Work in Atlanta
- 'It's giving people hope' | IVYY program at Grady Hospital reports success one year into effort to tackle gun violence
Street Medicine & Housing Insecurity
Goal:
- Assist in providing basic health care to those experiencing housing insecurity and providing referrals to local safety net clinics.
Volunteer Needs:
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Nursing and medical students to support basic health care events
Next Steps:
- Volunteers to support YMCA shuttle providing resources
- Nursing school community assessment of medical needs
- Coordination for health events
- Rolling suitcase and supply drives
Contact: Tammy Reasoner