Community Health Mentors
Be a Community Health Mentor.
Help students build the skills necessary to be respectful caregivers while advancing your own health goals and connecting with health and well-being resources—become a community health mentor in the Interprofessional Community Scholars Program at Ohio State.
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Work with students to improve care within your community.
The Interprofessional Community Scholars Program (IPCS) moves students into the community, where they work with community members in an interprofessional team - gaining new perspectives and improving health and health care.
If you’re an older adult living in the Columbus area who is Medicaid eligible, uninsured, and aging-in-place in a home setting, we invite you to become a Community Health Mentor.
As a Community Health Mentor, you will:
- Help learners experience working in a patient-centered interprofessional team to provide respectful and integrated care.
- Share your life experience.
- Advance your ability to identify, access, and use digital resources and services.
- Set and achieve goals that advance your health and well-being
“OSU is getting students directly involved in the community. The students are great—they showed me how to use MyChart. When I have a doctor's appointment, now I can pre-register via MyChart. Those kinds of skills are invaluable.”
Michael Campbell, Community Health Mentor
Get involved!
Reach out to ipe@osu.edu to learn more about becoming a Community Health Mentor, joining our Community Advisory Board, and other ways you can participate.