AmeriCorps Member – Center Key Populations; CKP) Health Navigator

Job Description

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Ameri Corps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services.

Ameri Corps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, Ameri Corps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

Healthy Communities is CHC’s Ameri Corps program designed to create cohesion in vulnerable communities and to promote healthcare and support services through outreach, awareness, linkage to care and support. Healthy Communities also serves to identify the unique and integral needs of our communities and neighborhoods and to establish strategic plans to address them. Service delivery will directly address the public health crisis in vulnerable communities and make healthcare and support services accessible through flexible delivery of services.

Ameri Corps members will conduct community outreach, education, patient engagement, and link patients to CHCI care and referrals to community based assistance. Additionally, Ameri Corps members will participate in statewide and local activities which promote awareness of health and health services.

This is an Ameri Corps Member role – Center for Key Populations (CKP) Health Navigator – that supports the Center for Key Populations and throughout Middletown, Meriden, New Britain, and New London areas, Mobile Health Unit (MHU) and CT River Valley Farm worker Health Program.

• One-year service term from September 8, 2026 thru August 31, 2027
• Serve a minimum of 33 hours a week for a total of 1700 hours during service year
• $25,000 stipend over the course of one year, paid bi-weekly
• An education award of $7,395 at the end of successful service term completion
• This is not a staff position.

• Possess a mature, compassionate, and sensitive demeanor
• Enjoy working with others and genuine desire to help
• Are organized and have great time management skills
• Thrive in a fast paced environment
• Can take initiative and work independently as well as part of a team

• High school or equivalent required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office and internet-related applications
• Excellent time management and organizational skills
• Excellent oral and written skills
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve and remain calm during a crisis
• Successful clearance of all required criminal history checks (NSCHC)
• Able to travel between CHC sites and in state

• Associate’s degree in public health, social work related field
• Bilingual English/Spanish
• Knowledge and understanding of community resources
• Experience in providing crisis intervention, coordination of services, advocacy and community outreach in working with vulnerable populations
• Knowledge about community stakeholders and mapping

Community Health Center, Inc. (CHC), with offices in Connecticut, Colorado and California, is one of the country’s most creative and dynamic providers of primary medical, dental, and behavioral health services, and a leader in practice-based research, health professionals training, and use of innovative technologies to advance health and…