
Venture Boldly
October 30 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Alumni Room 100, Old Main
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Robin Young, Director of Programs at Child Family Health International(CFHI) will be at Knox on Monday, Oct. 30, meeting with pre-med / health policy / global health faculty and students. Everyone interested in global health, in study abroad opportunities in the pre-med / global health fields, and in international summer intensive internships in health fields is welcome to join her for a lunchtime conversation.
We'll have pizza available! Please RSVP, if you would like pizza, by Oct. 25 to lasteele@knox.edu.
What is CHFI? "Child Family Health International (CFHI) provides community-based Global Health Education Programs for students and institutions. Its unique model fosters reciprocal partnerships and empowerment in local communities, transforming perspectives about self, healing and global citizenship. CFHI is an NGO in Special Consultative Status with the ECOSOC of the United Nations."
"CFHI provides individual trainees and university partners with opportunities to learn about global health while imbedded in existing health systems and social services sectors alongside local community members and champions. The context is so important in order to impart a broad-based understanding of the interplays between disease processes, social circumstances, poverty, resiliency, geopolitical realities, historical contexts, culture, and the complexities of health and wellness. CFHI utilizes an asset-based engagement model, empowering local communities to own the educational narrative in order to transform the minds and hearts of young people so they are positioned to be the partners (both internationally and locally) that are necessary to achieve health equity and social justice. CFHI's expertise is in preserving the authenticity of the community's expertise and presenting 'real-life' global health, while nesting programs in gold-standard educational pedagogies and safety standards."