Program Manager, Workforce Development and Capacity Building
AMCHP
Candice Simon is AMCHP's Program Manager with the Workforce and Capacity Building Team. She supports intensive, individualized support for talent (inclusive of current Title V professionals across roles, settings, and levels of leadership, as well as students and other aspiring professionals) in the context of critical capacity building and systems change efforts. Her portfolio aims to build workforce knowledge, skills, and abilities across consensus competency areas, including change management, mentorship and supervision, and equitable and anti-racist practice. Prior to her current position, Mrs. Simon worked for the Florida Department of Health Seminole County, where she began her career in Public Health as the SWAT Coordinator (Students Working Against Tobacco); she planned, organized, and arranged various constructive and successful health educational activities for youths. After relocating to Tampa, FL, to obtain her Master’s degree, she was hired as an Interconception Coordinator at the Central Hillsborough Healthy Start Project, a program under REACHUP, Inc. (a non-profit organization). Over the fifteen years at Central Hillsborough Healthy Start Project, Candice handled various responsibilities. Her initial duties began with providing the community with health education to clients who needed resources and added knowledge of self-care. She also provided health services of intervention to prevent poor birth outcomes. Her responsibilities were advanced when she assumed the Public and Community Health Director position, which included effective strategizing to engage consumers’ participation in Maternal and Child Health services.
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Saturday, May 6, 2023
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Monday, May 8, 2023
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM CST