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Welcome to the Sea Mar Community HealthCorps Site!
Who are we?
We are 15+ AmeriCorps volunteers from all over the United States serving at Sea Mar Community Health Centers throughout Western Washington as well as International Community Health Services (ICHS) near downtown Seattle and Metropolitan Development Council in Tacoma. The Sea Mar HealthCorps program began in 1995 and is an original HealthCorps site.
What do HealthCorps members do?
AmeriCorps members provide service while enhancing skills, vision, and professionalism thru daily service in a specific department of SEA MAR or a partner site/health center, and participation in team-led outreach projects and regular team trainings.
Program Framework:
Personal growth is fostered through a highly supportive, challenging, and educational team environment. Year after year, Sea Mar HealthCorps members are committed to improving access, increasing utilization, and providing health education for the medically underserved of western Washington. HealthCorps members share a commitment to their own growth and development through receiving training, providing service, and engaging in team work. These create the ground work for next steps in the careers of HealthCorps alums as our future health care leaders and as leaders in all arenas of civic service.
Tips For a Successful HealthCorps Experience:
- Practice creative problem solving! Whether you confront technology challenges, lack of funds, or difficulty reaching out to the community, your ability to independently and creatively solve problems is critical.
- Patience and flexibility are key! Embrace unexpected events as opportunities.
- Dress Code: While Seattle on the whole is pretty casual (you can wear jeans and a T-shirt to the best restaurants in town), Sea Mar is a little more conservative. No tennis shoes or blue jeans at work, and no funky colored hair or wild visible piercings.
- Sea Mar is an 8am-5pm kind of workplace. Your supervisors will appreciate promptness.
- Sea Mar's infrastructure is quickly developing and working within it can be a challenge. Community health centers often experience struggles similar to the clients they serve.
- Finally, in your service assignment and your life in Seattle, a sense of humor is fundamental. You're here to learn and serve, so don’t be afraid to step outside your comfort zone and take on new challenges.
Paperwork:
Before or during orientation, you'll fill out lots of paperwork. It will help the process (and you to get paid on time) if you are prepared with the following:
- Your driver's license or state-issued ID card
- Your social security card
- One of the following: copy of your birth certificate, US passport, certificate of citizenship (INS Form N-560), or Certificate of Naturalization (INS Form N-550)
- Proof of auto insurance and a Driver's Abstract from the DMV if you plan to drive as a function of your service
If applying for child care benefits (note that only low-income households and children under 13 are eligible), please bring:
- Household paycheck stubs or other proof of income for the last 30 days
- Spouse's and children's social security numbers and dates of birth
- Copy of children's birth certificates
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