Posts Tagged ‘Muncie’

Summer Advantage USA, a national non-profit organization providing children with accelerated summer learning programs focused on academics and enrichment, is pleased to announce the school sites chosen for its 2010 summer program.

The Indiana sites are as follows:

· Central Elementary, 7001 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis
· Lincoln Middle School, 5353 West 71st Street, Indianapolis
· Carlin Park Elementary, 800 North Williams St., Angola
· Fremont Elementary, PO Box 625, Fremont
· Prairie Heights Elementary, 0544 South 1150 East, LaGrange
· Orleans Community Schools, 637 E. Washington Street, Orleans
· Spring Valley Community Schools, 326 S. Larry Bird Blvd., French Lick
· Southview Elementary School, 2100 Franklin St., Muncie
· Challenge Foundation Academy, 3980 Meadows Drive, Indianapolis

Summer Advantage USA will bring more than 300 teaching jobs to the State of Indiana this summer. The following teaching positions are available:

· Academic Teachers — offer the primary support to ensure the academic and social development of the student scholars
· Enrichment Teachers — create and lead a specific enrichment program such as art, music, or physical education that augments the academic program
· Teacher’s Assistants — support the teachers in providing academic and enrichment lessons to the student scholars  

Applicants are encouraged to apply by Wednesday, March 31, 2010. To apply for a teaching position and to review job descriptions, please visit the Summer Advantage USA Web site at www.summeradvantage.org and click on the Careers tab.

Summer Advantage USA operates on the premise that summer learning provides children with academics plus enrichment, such as the arts, engineering and technology, health and fitness and community service. The organization works to connect children with experienced educators and adult mentors, and engages parents more deeply in the education of their children.

Managed Health Services and Ivy Tech Community College are partnering this summer to offer free glucose, cholesterol and blood pressure screenings at community health fairs throughout the state.

Nearly 25 technician and medical assisting externs from Ivy Tech’s central Indiana campus will be performing the screenings. Judy Ward, a program director at Ivy Tech’s School of Health Sciences, says the experience that the externs will gain from performing the screenings at MHS events will be invaluable. “To gain actual experience in dealing with many different types of patients in a health screening setting is the type of real-life situation and scenarios that cannot be reproduced in the classroom.”

The free screenings are being offered at a great time. According to the Indiana State Department of Health, more than 8 percent of the adult population has been diagnosed with diabetes compared to the national average of 7.5 percent. Indiana is also burdened with a rising number of children diagnosed with obesity and diabetes. This chronic disease was the sixth leading cause of death in Indiana in 2005, ranking fourth for African Americans, seventh for Caucasians and sixth for Hispanics/Latinos.

MHS currently has heightened diabetes awareness campaigns designed to educate its members about the importance of preventing the onset of diabetes and identify those in need of treatment in several communities, including Muncie, Elkhart, Gary and Bloomington.