签名计划
培养学习者和积极的公民, the Center offers a range of opportunities that engage NCOM students and faculty in learning through real-world, community-based problem-solving while also responding to a significant need in the area. The Center supports and administers approved programs to help students complete their CEL requirements. 下面是一些CEL课程的例子.
Please note: For an updated list of approved CEL opportunities, please visit our NobleHour 门户网站.
病人导航项目
The concept of patient navigation was founded and pioneered by Harold P. Freeman in 1990 for the purpose of eliminating barriers to timely cancer screening, 诊断, 治疗, 以及支持性护理. 目前, the patient navigation model has been expanded to include the timely movement of an individual across the entire 健康care continuum from prevention, 检测, 诊断, 治疗, 支持临终关怀. Patient navigation has shown efficacy as a strategy to reduce cancer mortality and is currently being applied to reduce mortality in other chronic diseases. (哈罗德·P. 弗里曼病人导航协会)
学生 participating in this category of programs will be able to accomplish the following:
- Develop a deeper understanding of the patient demographics, and social and structural determinants of 健康 through hands-on experiences.
- Develop a plan by applying 健康-related beliefs and practices to the development, 实现, and evaluation of community-based programs and services.
- Develop an understanding of the complexities that exist in linking individuals to appropriate 健康 and social services to improve patient care and community 健康.
- Develop a sense of themselves as 健康 care professionals working collaboratively to address a community need.
- 沟通(书面和口头)通知, 教育, and empower patients and their families about 健康 issues and resources.
- Foster 尊重 for diversity and inclusion of all individuals
社区研究计划
Community-based research (CBR) begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge with action to achieve social change (Community-Based 研究 and Higher Education, Strand等人., 2004, p.3). 学生 are encouraged to work with community partners to develop research projects under the guidance of an 推荐最近最火的赌博软件 faculty member to learn more about the design and 实现 of effective and accurate research that is both rigorous and useful to specific community organizations or public interest constituencies. Findings can be reported through publications and conference presentations.
学生 participating in this category of programs will be able to accomplish the following:
- Develop an understanding of the fundamentals of community-based research design
- 遵守法律, 规定, 政策, and procedures for the ethical conduct of public 健康 research and practice.
- Pursue diverse means for disseminating research findings; and
- Develop a plan to translate the findings from research into practice or social action.
- Foster 尊重 for diversity and inclusion of all individuals
陪伴的程序
The purpose of 陪伴 programs is to improve the care, 健康, 和病人的健康，减少孤独感. 志愿者s will provide one-on-one time with patients while also providing respite to the caregivers of those patients. 研究 indicates that friendship contributes to a person’s well-being: through the provision of companionship in daily life, 压力过渡期间的支持, as well as sustainment of identity under changing circumstances.
学生 participating in this category of programs will be able to accomplish the following:
- Develop an understanding of the psycho-social issues that accompany chronic illness and 治疗
- Develop an understanding of the complexities that exist with various 健康 conditions in getting the patients to a 健康ier state of physical and mental 健康
- Increase social awareness and responsibility to advocate for patients and families
- Provide supportive services to help patients cope with their 健康 condition(s)
- Foster 尊重 for diversity and inclusion of all individuals
健康 & 健康计划
The World 健康 Organization (WHO) defines 健康 as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” The National 健康 Institute defines wellness as an active process of becoming aware of and making choices toward a more successful existence.
学生 participating in this category of programs will be able to accomplish the following:
- Assess 健康 behaviors and the environment (social or structural) related to promoting 健康y lifestyles
- 应用程序规划原则, 包括设计, 实现, 预算, and evaluation to develop programs that promote social and emotional wellbeing
- Develop confidence and proficiency in communications skills (written and oral) to inform, 教育, and empower patients and their families about 健康 issues and resources.
- Foster 尊重 for diversity and inclusion of all individuals by appropriately attending to cultural competency.
辅导项目
Children who succeed despite overwhelming personal, economic and social obstacles do so often because of a caring adult in their lives. 指导 outcomes include greater participation in school, 提高出勤率, 更高的毕业率和大学入学率, 更好的整体性能. (纽约州指导计划，2016年)
学生 participating in this category of programs will be able to accomplish the following:
- Build and support positive relationships with youth based on mutual trust, 尊重, 和问责制
- Develop an understanding of the psycho-social issues that accompany children living in underserved communities
- Increase social awareness and responsibility to advocate for patients and families