The Center, located in Nashville, TN, is a group of community service projects whose goal is to support people working at the grassroots level to take control of their physical, social, political, and environmental health.
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- Founded:
- The Center for Health Services is an outgrowth of the Appalachian Student Health Coalition, which formed in 1969 when a group of Meharry Medical College and Vanderbilt students organized a community outreach program led by student and community volunteers
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- Student Health Coalition 40th ...
Vanderbilt University and elsewhere!
Friday, April 17 at 5:30pm - Celebration of Women Mentoring...
Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
Friday, February 27 at 11:30am
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services The Center's MIHOW program was recently featured on local NewsChannel5 program "The Plus Side of Nashville" - see the segment with with Barbara Clinton and Tonya Elkins at the link below!
www.newschannel5.com
The Plus Side of Nashville focuses on everything from the works of non-profit organizations to upcoming events in the world of arts. The public affairs show is hosted by NewsChannel 5's Tuwanda Coleman.
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Coalition for Healthy Aging received two grants from the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Nashville to support breast health initiatives!
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu
Susan G. Komen for the Cure Greater Nashville has awarded three grants totaling $175,000 to support Vanderbilt breast health initiatives.
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services Former Student Health Coalitioner appointed next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention!
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Dr. Thomas R. Frieden has cut a high and sometimes contentious profile as New York City’s top health official.
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Join us for the 40th Anniversary Celebration of the Student Health Coalition (formerly the Appalachian Student Health Coalition)!
Schedule of Events:
Friday April 17, 2009 - 5:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Cocktail Reception and Registration
Center for Health Services Vanderbilt's Campus
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 9:00 a.m.
Panel Discus...sions followed by lunch
Vanderbilt School of Nursing
Annex 161
461 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 4:30 p.m.
Dinner and Music under the stars
Home of Tom John and Brenda Butka
5188 Old Hickory Boulevard, Nashville, TN 37218
Sunday, April 19, 2009 - 10:00 a.m.
Reflection Breakfast
Home of Irwin Venick and Jeanne Ballinger
3916 Kimpalong Avenue, Nashville, TN 37205
Casual Attire - Weather Permitting
Questions? Contact Katie Smart, Reunion Coordinator, by e-mail or by phone.
Time:5:30PM Friday, April 17th
Location:Vanderbilt University and elsewhere!
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services
Meharry Dean of Medicine receives 2009 MIHOW Award - http://www.meharry-vanderbilt.org/2009-m
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MIHOW program to add new sites - check out the coverage in The Reporter! http://www.mc.vanderbilt.edu/reporter/in
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services
Three Nashville community leaders will be honored at the second annual Celebration of Women Mentoring Women, highlighting some of the unseen work in our community and encouraging all women to mentor those around them.
The awards luncheon will take place on Friday, February 27, 2009, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Loews Vander...bilt Hotel.
The honorees are:
• The Rev. Mary K. “Kaki” Friskics-Warren, GivingMatters.com Director at the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee
• Valerie Montgomery-Rice, M.D., dean of the School of Medicine, Meharry Medical College
• Martha A. Burton, teacher of Early Childhood Educations and Family and Consumer Sciences at Pearl-Cohn Comprehensive Business Magnet School.
Proceeds for the event will support Vanderbilt University’s Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) program, which is built on the principles of empowering women from low income households to gain confidence, self-sufficiency, and access to health and social services.
MIHOW is a partnership between the Vanderbilt University Center for Health Services and community based organizations in Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and West Virginia.
Individual tickets to the luncheon are $55 each. For ticket purchase or information about event sponsorship, contact Robin Baskin at 615-292-4674 or at robinbaskin@comcast.net.
Benefiting the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program
Time:11:30AM Friday, February 27th
Location:Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services
Did you know that you can now make secure, online donations to help support and continue the work of the Center for Health Services? See our profile and donate online through GivingMatters.com! (http://givingmatters.guidestar.org/Nonpr
Vanderbilt Center for Health Services An introduction to the Maternal Infant Health Outreach Worker (MIHOW) Program of the Vanderbilt Center for Health Services.
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Vanderbilt Center for Health Services changed their Founded.
