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.
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.
