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Electronic Health Records Volunteer Needed!

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ORGANIZATION: New Alternatives for Children

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New Alternatives for Children is a unique, award-winning child welfare agency offering strength-based social services, medical and mental healthcare, and a wide variety of wrap-around services. NAC's Education department supports the educational needs of children in care for all our programs. The collection and monitoring of their education information, services, and participation is essential to our planning, programming, and funding. This data directly impacts the practice of the agency. This position is designed to help in the gathering and entry of data into our Electronic Health Records (EHR) system.
Projects:

  • A mission-driven overhaul of data processing to help build a comprehensive database and report for NAC children’s educational services
  • Gathering, organizing and entering data collected during the school year
  • Creation of processes to support data collection and entry
Qualifications: Highly motivated and independent Strong experience with MS Excel and data management Excellent organizational and problem solving skills A desire to work on detail oriented, creative projects Volunteers are asked to work 10-12 hours a week, preferably with a commitment until summer. Start and end date are flexible, hours per day can be flexible. Two days at the office are required during school hours. HOURLY PAY RATE: Unpaid When applying, indicate "EHR Volunteer/Intern" in the subject line, and submit cover letter and resume to: Bobbi Nathanson, LMSW, ACSW Director of Volunteers, Student Internships & Community Relations New Alternatives for Children, Inc. 37 West 26th Street, 7th Floor New York, NY 10010 Phone: (212) 696-1550 Fax: (212) 696-1602 E-mail: volunteers@nackidscan.org To learn more about New Alternatives for Children, Inc., please visit our website: www.nackidscan.org " WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER, COMMITTED TO DIVERSITY"

About New Alternatives for Children: NAC’s mission is to provide innovative high quality services in support of birth, foster and adoptive families caring primarily for medically fragile children, often in combination with mental health, behavioral and/or developmental disabilities. NAC’s services enable children to remain in or to be returned to their families whenever possible or to be adopted by loving families. Working with children whose birth families live in poverty, NAC’s continuum of services ensures that children’s physical, social, educational, recreational, medical and mental healthcare needs are met. By supporting families, NAC prevents lengthy stays in foster care, hospitals or other institutions. NAC builds on family strengths, provides opportunities and assists all family members in reaching for and achieving their potential.

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About New Alternatives for Children

Location:

37 West 26th Street, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10010, US

Mission Statement

New Alternatives for Children (NAC) is a unique, award-winning child welfare agency offering strength-based social services, medical and mental healthcare and a wide variety of wrap-around services. We serve families that have at least one child with special needs, often in combination with mental health, behavioral and/or developmental diagnoses as well. NAC’s mission is to achieve safety, permanency and well-being within a family, for children who are at risk of abuse and/or neglect and have special medical and/or mental health needs among other challenges.

Description

The children referred to NAC are medically complex and their birth families have devastating social problems. Their circumstances include poverty, homelessness, domestic violence, substance abuse, immigration and language barriers, parental illness, mental health problems and illiteracy. NAC's children may use wheelchairs or be dependent on medical technology in order to live. They may have HIV/AIDS, cancer, cerebral palsy, respiratory or cardiac problems or spina bifida, among other diagnoses. Growing numbers have asthma, diabetes and diagnoses on the autism spectrum. Some of the children have spent years growing up in the hospital, others have had more surgeries than birthdays, experienced fragmented health services, prolonged hospital visits, and/or medical and educational neglect.

Despite these challenges, NAC has outstanding outcomes and is one of the highest evaluated programs by the Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) among all NYC child welfare agencies (including those serving non-medically fragile children). To see our most recent impact numbers, please follow the link to our website: https://nackidscan.org/our-impact/

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Children & Youth

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

New Alternatives For Children37 West 26th Street6th FloorNew York, NY 10010

(40.7446,-73.99046)
 

DATE POSTED

January 24, 2020

SKILLS

  • General Education
  • Administrative Support
  • Data Entry

GOOD FOR

N/A

REQUIREMENTS

  • Must be at least 18
  • Volunteers are asked to work 10-12 hours a week.

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