Name: AmeriCorps Members in Enviornmental Health, How to Leverage Funding and Partnership to Advance the Enviornmental Health Workforce
Start: 2024-09-12T08:30:00-0600
End: 2024-09-12T09:10:00-0600

The CEHA 2024 AEC schedule can be found below.

NOTICE: The pre-conference CFPM class has been cancelled.

As of 9/11/2024, the schedule is complete and current. Door signs can be found within the pre-function space. If there are any questions, please come to the registration desk to ask a committee member.

HAVE A GREAT CONFERENCE!!

Thursday September 12, 2024 8:30am - 9:10am MDT

Northwest Territory A

Colorado Public Health Works is a groundbreaking AmeriCorps Apprenticeship program providing career entry into the field of public health from local communities throughout Colorado. In 2022, the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment became the first local public health agency in the nation to combine a dual community health worker apprenticeship program with an AmeriCorps service - providing competitive pay, benefits, and career tailored career trajectories for young professionals. This is a new program that has not gained a great deal of momentum from environmental health agencies and other Colorado partners. This talk will aid interested environmental health leaders the how to of partnering with statewide and regional partners to secure dollars for AmeriCorps members and highlight the current environmental health work being conducted by Denver AmeriCorps members.

Speakers

Mark McMillan, M.S

Air and Water Quality Manager, DDPHE

Mark McMillan is currently the Air and Water Manager of the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment’s Division of Environmental Quality. He brings over 25 years of air quality and environmental protection experience. Before joining the City in August 2022, Mark spent... Read More →

Emily Evans

AmeriCorps Member / Student, Denver Department of Public Health and Environment

Emily is a current Master of Environmental and Occupational Health Public Health student at the Colorado School of Public Health and a second year AmeriCorps Apprentice working full time with a split position working for both the Denver Department of Public Health and Environment... Read More →

Thursday September 12, 2024 8:30am - 9:10am MDT
Northwest Territory A

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Mark McMillan, M.S

Emily Evans

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