Service Learning: A Useful Pedagogy to Engage Community Health Education Students in a Resource Management and Grant Writing Course

Abstract

Individuals in the health and social service arena are often required to obtain programmatic funds through grant and proposal writing; however, in this highly competitive era, these funding avenues have become more difficult to obtain. The literature is limited and mainly related to curriculum practices used to prepare students to work in the field of community health. A Resource Management and Grant Writing course taught in an undergraduate program that prepares students for Community Health Education Specialist certification uses a service-learning approach to teach specific National Commission for Health Education Credentialing knowledge and skills, including components of a grant. This article describes a successful service-learning process employed with these students.