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VISTA Community Health


The Center for Community Learning & Leadership, together with The Health Trust, is a sponsoring organization for AmeriCorps*VISTA, a national service program dedicated to eradicating poverty. Eight VISTA members, divided between the Health Trust and the CCLL, work together on a variety of ongoing projects related to community health. (Learn more about AmeriCorps*VISTAExternal link outside SJSU domain at the national level.)

The goal of the VISTA program is to provide sustainable programs and resources to address the health needs of lower-income people in targeted areas of San Jose. Within this broad framework, VISTA members have used their year of service to implement such activities as:

Note: In collaboration with VISTAs, SJSU AmeriCorps members and community learners from disciplines such as Health Science, Nursing, Urban and Regional Planning, Management Information Systems, and Anthropology have further contributed to the research, planning, and implementation of health promotion activities benefiting the local community.

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