Making More Health: A Social Innovation Opportunity
The Office of Community Outreach is partnering with Youth Venture to implement an innovative social entrepreneurship program, ‘Making More Health,’ through which students will be empowered to become “Changemakers” in their own communities.Selected participants will receive training and education on social entrepreneurship, focused on health issues in the community. After the conference, participants will have the opportunity to continue their involvement by creating a team project focused on a shared community health interest.
Program Overview:
- Selected participants will be enrolled in the ‘Making More Health’ program, which includes the following mandatoryevents:
- 3 one-time weekly sessions- February 7th, 21st and 28th 1:00-2:30pm in Laurel Hall 107 on the UConn Storrs campus
- 1 weekend conference at UConn Storrs- all day March 5th and March 6th
- A conference-follow-up workshop on April 2nd
- Selected participants will also have access to the following optionalopportunities:
- An opportunity to form teams with other students that identify and focus on a mutually agreed-upon community health concern
- In the summer of 2016, student teams can pilot their ideas and implement their work in the community
- In the fall semester of 2016, a review and follow-up conference between Youth Venture and the Office of Community Outreach will be held for student teams who developed their own health ventures
- Winning teams may be given incremental seed funding to help launch their projects. Seed funding will be determined by the organizers and delivered based on a review of project milestones
For more information & the application please visit- http://communityoutreach.uconn.edu/democracy-political-engagement/
For more information, contact: Liz Gustafson at student3392@ad.uconn.edu