Looking for a new internship? A board to join? Want to learn how to build your skillsets in awesome ways? If you said yes to any of these, you'll be wise to take a look at this page frequently to see what new opportunities we have posted. We'll have a collection of different opportunities listed here: some that are specific to Youth MOVE National; others will be specific to something happening in the field.
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October 2011
Youth Service America and UnitedHealthcare Offer Grants for Service-Learning Projects to Address Childhood Obesity - Deadline: October 17, 2011
Youth Service America and UnitedHealthcare have announced the fourth year of the UnitedHealth HEROES program, a service-learning health- literacy program that awards grants to help youth between the ages of 5 and 25 create and implement local, hands-on programs to fight childhood obesity.
The program invites young people in the United States to become "Health Heroes" by learning about childhood obesity, designing programs to address it, and implementing the programs in their communities.
Grants of $500 to $1,000 will be awarded to programs that demonstrate a clear understanding of the health risks associated with childhood obesity; propose creative solutions to fighting obesity in their schools and communities; and can be easily implemented, scaled, and measured. In addition, each grant engages participating youth in service-learning, a teaching and learning strategy that supports student academic achievement and helps students develop their workplace readiness skills. The grants encourage semester-long projects that launch on the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (January 16, 2012) and culminate on Global Youth Service Day (April 20-22, 2012).
Schools, service-learning coordinators, nonprofits, and students in the health professions located in all fifty states and the District of Columbia are eligible to apply.
Visit the YSA Web site for complete program guidelines, an eligibility quiz, and the application as well as "First Responders: Youth Addressing Childhood Obesity Through Service-Leaning," a step-by-step manual that helps youth, parents, teachers, and other volunteers deploy YSA service-learning models to fight childhood obesity in their communities.
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Link to Complete RFP
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August 2011
Give SAMHSA Your Feedback on the Definition of Recovery!
Over the past year, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration—as part of its Recovery Support Strategic Initiative—has worked with the behavioral health field to develop a working definition of recovery that captures the essential, common experiences of those recovering from mental and substance use disorders, along with 10 guiding principles that support recovery.
SAMHSA wants to know what you think about the working definition and guiding principles of recovery from mental and substance use disorders. The comment period closes at 12 midnight Eastern Time on Friday, August 26.
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