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McKinley Health Center - Health Education

McKinley Health Center aims to provide high-quality ambulatory healthcare and health education to students and medical expertise to University leadership. The Center is also accredited through the Accreditation Associate for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC). Employees at MHC are required to provide proof of certain immunizations according to recommendations from the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) guidelines. To review the full policy, please click here - https://public.powerdms.com/UIUC/documents/1455696/Employee Immunization.

Our staff works on campus with an academically talented and ethnically diverse student population, including international students totaling 22.2 percent of the total student population, 18.8 percent for Asian American students, 11 percent for Latinx/e students, 5.0 percent for African American students, and 3.2 percent for multiracial students, with a total enrollment of over 56,000 students.

Job Summary

The Health Education Unit plays an integral role in meeting the University\'s commitment towards health promotion. As part of the student health center, the unit provides a wide variety of Health Education programs and services to UIUC students. By practice, Health Educators at MHC are expected to utilize variety of settings to teach, advise, educate, counsel and mentor our student clients - when needed, serve as guest lecturers. The health education unit at MHC consists of health educators in the areas of sexuality, drugs/alcohol, fitness, nutrition, patient education, stress management, and cross-cultural health, under the direction of the Director of Health Education.

Duties & Responsibilities

Consulting/Advising

• Provide individual teaching instruction and counsel to students on matters related to sexuality and sexual health.
• Consult with and provide information to appropriate MHC on matters related to sexuality education of referred students, including medical record documentation. Refer students, when appropriate, to campus or community agencies, medical facilities etc.
• Consult with the Women\'s Health Unit on the development of their unit\'s health education sexual health materials including teaching/education on; birth control methods/education, pregnancy test education and referral Issues.
• Consult with Health Educators, Women\'s Health and other MHC Units in the teaching/development of sexuality education materials and effective teaching/advising methods.
• Consult with Student Affairs, academic units, and other appropriate local health agencies on sexual and peer related activities.
• Serve as a source of providing education/information for students, staff and faculty on matters related to sexual health and peer related programs.
• Consult and maintain ongoing communication in sexual health, peer programs with other institutions of higher education including community units.
• Coordinate and advise Health Education Peer related groups in conjunction with appropriate Health Educators.
• Assist with staff education/training for Student Affairs, training of trainers for MHC Wellness Student Peer Leaders and serve on appropriate MHC, campus and local committees.
• Participate in national, state and local conferences and meetings and share information with Health Education Unit and MHC staff as appropriate
• Develop or locate appropriate sexual health and peer related educational materials for teaching/advising related responsibilities and act as a resource person for the Health Education Unit and M C.
• Coordinate and Supervise the Health Advocate program and train Teaching Assistants (TAs) for the Health Advocates and Sexuality/Peer programs. The TAs will be assisting the Coordinator with teaching/lecture related requests mostly from Residence Halls, Sororities, Fraternities and from Campus RSOs.

Programming

Develop, coordinate and evaluate sexuality education programs that are designed to promote healthy lifestyle decisions. Formats include teaching, advising and promoting illness prevention programs on sexual health to students in residence halls, Greek houses, club and ethnic group organizations, guest lectures, organize special events, displays and create educational materials.

Coordinate the Peer Education programs within the Health Education Unit by facilitating ongoing communication between Health Educators and maintaining consistency with regards to marketing student recruitment, curriculum development/evaluation and setting up teaching plans with campus academic units and Sororities/Fraternities.

Develop and coordinate programs on sexual health related issues including handouts, flyers, posters and other related materials.

Maintain unit sexuality and peer education materials and work with appropriate Health Education staff, MHC staff and other groups/individuals at UIUC for distribution of these materials at designated locations inc