OREGON — NAMI Multnomah, the Multnomah County chapter of National Alliance on Mental Illness, will be offering five classes in an Oregon Health Authority approved peer support specialist training for
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A newly announced $50,000 endowment and a $383,000 grant award that pairs equal funding from Deschutes County and the Central Oregon Health Council (COHC) will support a broad-based public health workforce initiative taking shape at Central Oregon Community College (COCC). Retired physicians Dr. Durlin Hickok and Dr. Carol Wallace established a $50,000 community health worker endowment through the COCC Foundation and donated $20,000 to initiate an internship program with local agencies. Together, the grant awards, endowment and donation will support student recruitment, training development, scholarship backing, paid internships and an increased focus on careers in the public health sector. "The pandemic has placed a strain on public health. Newly trained workers will fill an immediate need for entry-level public health positions," said grant project lead Dr. Sarah Baron, assistant public health professor at COCC and a member of the community college workforce developme
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