Ambassador Toolkit
Thanks to your service as a National Health Service Corps Ambassador, we have an extraordinary opportunity to meet a primary need — the need of approximately 64 million Americans, 20 percent of the population, for adequate access to primary health care.
This toolkit includes materials that will help you
- Make yourself and the National Health Service known on your campus and in your community.
- Advocate for primary care.
- Mentor students and clinicians.
- Recruit students and clinicians to the NHSC.
- Train students, clinicians, educators, community leaders and others to care for and about people who lack access to primary health care.
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California
Ambassador Blends Goal of Increasing Minority Enrollment with NHSC Mission
For Les Howard, having a sense of mission in one's life is inextricably tied to community and responsibility. This is what he learned growing up disadvantaged himself. It is how he lives his life, and it is the single-most important message that he brings to the students under his careful watch. As program director of the San Joaquin Valley College (SJVC) Primary Care Physician Assistant (PA) Program he sees himself perfectly positioned to pass on the values and resourcefulness that have inspired his own remarkable life. For Howard, the National Health Service Corps (NHSC) is one of his most important allies in the task of sending the best and brightest of his graduates to care for California's underserved communities.
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