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Hocking Valley Community Residential Center (HVCRC)

Agency Information

The HVCRC is a residential center for young men who have committed non-violent crimes.

CCE Site:
Hocking Valley Community Residential Center
111 West Twenty-Nine Drive
Nelsonville, Ohio 45764

Phone:
(740) 753-4400

Fax:
(740) 753-4448

Contact Person:
Brenda Robinson

Special Notes: Your presentation is expected to last one hour.  Please arrive at HVCRC at 1:30 PM - you will tour the facility until 2:00 PM and present from 2:00 - 3:00 PM.

A special guide for medical students is available to help you create your presentation.

Objectives for each presentation may be found by following this link.

Please call Ms. Robinson 2 weeks before your presentation to confirm
your assigned topic and discuss plans for an age-appropriate presentation.

When reporting to the agency, please ask for Ms. Robinson at the front desk.  Take only necessary items and identification (avoid carrying a purse).  Materials taken into the facility may be searched.  You may not hand out any materials with paper clips, staples or ink pens.  Do not allow the youths to use your ink pen.  You are permitted to hand out pencils.  Consider the literacy level that may apply to some youth when you are choosing your educational materials.

If you cannot keep your appointment or if you arrive even a few minutes late, please call the agency contact person to explain.

Office Hours:
8:00 am – 3:00 pm

Instructor:
Brenda Robinson

Specific CCE Goals

·    Gain experience in preventive medicine, patient teaching and community education by preparing and teaching relevant health topics to adolescent inmates at a correctional facility.

·    Develop interpersonal communication skills with adolescent males of diverse social and cultural backgrounds.

·    Practice social responsibility by providing health information to juveniles in a rehabilitation program.

Objectives/Activities
By participating in this CCE assignment, the medical student will:

·    Observe a typical juvenile residential center.

·    Determine health concerns of adolescent males residing in a juvenile residential center.

·    Develop and instruct a 60-minute class suitable for adolescent males in a juvenile residential center.  Topics will be assigned by the CCE Program Manager.  Use age-appropriate information to effectively convey the information.  Interactive presentations which engage the youth in dialogue are recommended. 

Resources
Depending on your assigned topic, resources may be obtained from the Area Health Education Center in 027 Grosvenor, from other agencies such as the American Cancer Society, the Athens City-County Health Departments, and from CCE Program Director Sarah McGrew in 333 Grosvenor. 

Equipment Needed for Activity:
See above.

Dress
Identification badge must be worn and a white lab jacket over professional casual clothes.

Responsibilities of the Medical Student

·    While on agency property, medical students will conform to all applicable policies and procedures of the agency.

·    Medical students will exercise confidentiality with regard to all client and/or staff information gained during the clinical experience.

  • Medical students are financially responsible for any illnesses,
    injuries or other health problems they incur during their clinical experiences.

Directions
Take Route 33 West to Nelsonville.  Turn left on Route 278, Lake Hope Drive at the last red light in Nelsonville, by the Sunoco gas station.  Cross the railroad tracks and bridge.  There is a dark brown building on the left.  Take the first road to the left in the curve, as the road turns right.  This is a paved driveway.  There is a small sign by the road entrance and a bus shelter.  Go straight back the driveway, pass the blue and gray building on the left.  Go to the red brick building.  Enter in the front doors of the brick building.

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  Ohio University
College of Osteopathic Medicine
Grosvenor Hall, Athens, Ohio 45701
Tel: 740-593-2500
Last updated: 08/27/2009