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Friendship Room Innate Health groups
- Friendship Room serves impoverished, uninsured mentally ill, most of whom are homeless, unemployed, and on disability. Clients must have a psychiatric diagnosis to use the Friendship Room. It provides a safe haven, education, service, and a social setting for its clientele.
- Innate Health groups are offered weekly, and have been since 2002. The Friendship Room has adopted Innate Health as its underlying philosophy.
- Health Sciences Technology Academy
- The Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) is a 9th-12th grade math and science program for minority and underrepresented students and rural communities interested in health profession career. A partnership with Appalachian communities and WVU brings minority and underrepresented students and teachers to the Morgantown campus each summer for clinic, laboratory, and classroom training and activities. The partnership then provides the infrastructure and support for community-based science projects during the school year. Students who succeed in HSTA through high school are guaranteed a scholarship for their education in any state university in WV through graduate school, including medical school.
- Helen Neal Pore, an Innate Health practitioner from Tampa, FL and Sarah Quesen, formerly program director with WVIIH, work with the HSTA rising seniors (young men and women preparing to enter the 12 th grade) in innate-health based workshops during their time on campus during the summer. Summer 2006 will be Helen’s fifth and Sarah’s seventh year with HSTA.
- Rural Health Education Partnerships
- The mission of the West Virginia Rural Health Education Partnerships (RHEP) is to achieve greater retention of West Virginia trained health science graduates in underserved rural West Virginia communities by creating partnerships of community, higher education, health care providers, and government.
- The Initiative has worked extensively with RHEP leadership, rural site-coordinators, and community volunteers. Several members of RHEP are now continuing the innate-health work independently.
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