Stories
Coming Full Circle
A story about how the communities where we serve are really interconnected. |
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Healthy Roots Gardening Project
Our team has chosen to use our own plot of land in a community garden to learn about gardening and share our knowledge (and vegetables) with our community. |
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AmeriCorps Biligual UC Merced Grad
MERCED -- Enid Picart is a young woman about town. At only 22, she's a two-term Community HealthCorps member with a degree from UC Merced who works as a Spanish-language health interpreter, and is studying for medical school.
Above everything else she does though, she simply wants to help make Merced a better place.
"I've always just wanted to help people, and have a job that makes a difference," she said. |
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Volunteers Help Medical Centers Reach Out
Our Community HealthCorps volunteers are front page news! Read all about the volunteers at Open Door Family Medical Centers who work so hard to provide health education services complimenting the primary care we give to the community in today's Journal News story by Marcela Rojas. |
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One Venti Soy Chai Changed my HealthCorps Service
Nyack Homeless Project and Hudson River HealthCare team up during the Holiday Season in the Hudson Valley Region. |
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Peer Educators
I took the students in my Peer Education class to the William F. Ryan Center's teen clinic for their final project. |
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CNCS Listening Session
Why NACHC HealthCorp Is Important!! |
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Members Team up During AmeriCorps Week
Impacting community while making new friends with other Community HealthCorps Members during AmeriCorps Week. |
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Doing Great Things for A Park in Need!
Community HealthCorps Members taking their AmeriCorps Week project to a whole other level by adopting a park arbor in an underserved community. |
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Great Team Leader
I want to thank Baindu Coomber for being a fantastic Community HealthCorps [Program] Coordinator in Berkeley, CA. |
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HealthCorps Members at Manet Community Health Center Making a Difference!
"Making a difference" has become the watch word for two Community HealthCorps members located at Manet Community Health Center in Quincy Massachusetts. |
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2nd Year with Community HealthCorps
How Community HealthCorps has helped me to grow as a person. |
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Healthy Baby Girl!
NY Health Center Happy Ending! |
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HealthCorps Helps Me Gain Perspective
As an AmeriCorps member I have been involved with many wonderful health education and outreach projects throughout the year. Although each one has been important to me, perhaps the most inspiring and touching has been my work with medically uninsured patients. |
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Former HealthCorps Member, Still Doing Great Things for Community Health
Now a medical student at the University of Iowa, Lauren served in the Community HealthCorps from 2002-2003 at LifeLong Medical Care in Berkley, CA. She said that medical school was always part of her plan, but her year in HealthCorps sparked her interest in preventive medicine, community health centers, and the desire to provide direct care to medically underserved and marginalized populations. |
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Patient with Addiction Makes Strides
A helping hand for Mary - she wanted to go into treatment for her addiction to crack cocaine and alcohol. |









