Volunteer Opportunities

  • Volunteers Needed for Health Research Study

    Seeking inter-professional students for intervention with adult persons returning to the community from jails and prisons

    Are you a UCONN student who wants to make a difference in the lives of others as you learn?  This opportunity may interest you.

    We are seeking additional graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in learning to provide a two-pronged intervention to teach self-care health management strategies to a re-entry population housed in Connecticut half-way house residences.  We have had a wonderful response from the community and are in need of additional assistance from the UCONN community.

    Time requirement: Currently, we are in the residences Tuesday and Wednesday evenings from 7-10pm.  Students receive extensive training before they enter the community setting and continuous supervision from faculty for provision of this individual and group intervention.

    Opportunities are available for learning community-based research processes for course credit, service learning, research internships, co-publishing and co-presentations.  Students with serious intent to commit to the project are welcomed from any discipline.  Connecticut Department of Correction clearances are required.  You do need transportation- we go into Hartford, Bloomfield and Windham.

    Please contact:
    Dr. Deborah Shelton
    Center for Correctional Health Networks
    Storrs Hall
    Deborah.shelton@uconn.edu

    For more information, contact: Deborah Shelton at deborah.shelton@uconn.edu