Field Placement: The Jubilee Consortium
Location: Hollywood, CA
Preceptor: Dr. Joanne Leslie, member of the Jubilee Consortium board of directors
Student Name: Kyle Pusateri
Year: 2003

The Jubilee Health Project is a program of The Jubilee Consortium, a collaborative of Episcopal Churches in low-income parts of Los Angeles County. While none of the work carried out by the Jubilee Consortium carries a specifically religious message, all of the projects carried out by the agency take place in church settings. The agency was founded in 2001 to serve as a coordinating and administrative body for the violence prevention, health-promotion, and leadership development work of each of the individual member churches that form the Jubilee Consortium. Currently all of the staff positions are part-time, including the Executive Director’s position. The Jubilee Consortium has a need for interns interested in helping to expand the financial resources of the agency, and to help implement new and existing projects at its four parish sites. Current projects at the four sites include: fitness classes, nutrition education, violence prevention programming, a summer youth camp, and community gardening. Because the agency is new and growing, other programmatic areas will be developed in response to community interests at each of the parish sites.

My internship with the Jubilee Consortium began in the early summer of 2003 and continued until the end of the fall quarter of 2003. Dr. Joanne Leslie, UCLA SPH Assistant Professor and member of the Jubilee Consortium board of directors, served as my preceptor. Highlights of the internship include implementing a pilot youth gardening project, an adult community gardening project, participating in board meetings and strategic planning sessions with the Executive Director, and writing a number of grant proposals. The internship was based at the Jubilee Consortium office at St. Stephen’s church in Hollywood.

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