Overview
*2023 Summer Internship in Community Health (Pomona CA, Greensboro AL, and Perry County Alabama) - Application Deadline, March 12, 2023
*2023-24 Gap Year Community Health Fellowship (Pomona CA, Greensboro AL, and Perry County Alabama) - Second Round Application Deadline, April 16, 2023 (only if spots in class still available — please inquire before applying)
What is community health and how can future leaders act individually and collectively to help their neighbors and strengthen community health? Since our founding in 2007, Horseshoe Farm has tackled these questions.
In 2009 we created a unique educational grant supported one-year Community Health Service Leadership Fellowship geared to top recent college graduates from across the country. More than 150 outstanding Horseshoe Farm Fellows have offered 250,000+ hours of their time, talents, and energies to this rigorous, intensive, and immersive year of volunteer service and learning.
Working as teams and with ongoing teaching and mentorship, Fellows participate in and learn from our pioneering multidimensional integrated approach to community health. Fellows volunteer in local schools to help small groups of students. They volunteer as “health partners” to support seniors, adults living with mental illness, and other vulnerable or isolated individuals. They help develop and lead programs at local community centers and volunteer with local supported housing programs and nursing homes. They live and learn in one of our three wonderful partner communities (Greensboro, AL, Perry County, AL, and Pomona, CA) while participating in Horseshoe Farm's time-tested approach to helping our vulnerable neighbors and improving community health.
These efforts all contribute to Horseshoe Farm’s steadfast mission of building on the strengths of local communities, improving the health and quality of life of our vulnerable neighbors, and preparing citizen service leaders for tomorrow’s communities. Please join us.
Awards/Recognition:
Project Horseshoe Farm awarded the “Lou Wooster Public Health Hero Award” by the University of Alabama, Birmingham School of Public Health, 2020.
Project Horseshoe Farm selected as “Exemplary Community Partnership” by Auburn University Carnegie Community Engagement Initiative, 2019.
Project Horseshoe Farm cited in Appalachian Regional Commission/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation report, “Creating a Culture of Health in Appalachia,” (https://healthinappalachia.org/bright-spots/case-studies/hale-county-al/), 2018.
Project Horseshoe Farm selected as “Outstanding Community Partner Initiated Engagement Effort,” by the University of Alabama Center for Community Based Partnerships, 2014.