Community Coordination

Aaron Matthew McLain Eaton

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South Orange, NJ 07079

404-***-**** ( **************@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/aaron-eaton/58/83a/a25/

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Highly motivated public and community relations coordinator with experience

in public affairs, marketing, event coordination, and community outreach.

Also collaborated with health care, public health, and nonprofit

organizations in poor and underserved communities of Philadelphia and

surrounding areas.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Arts in Political Science

Morehouse College ( Atlanta, Georgia

Activities: Morehouse College Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, Inc.,

Morehouse College Pre-Law Society, Morehouse College NAACP, Morehouse

College Chinese Club

WORK EXPERIENCE

September 2013 - Present AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Team Lead/Members Services, Operations

Currently serving as the liaison between the AmeriHealth Caritas Family of

Companies, Keystone First policyholders, and their primary care providers

to help facilitate AmeriHealth benefits and services and assist members in

understand the Affordable Care Act.

AmeriHealth Caritas Pennsylvania, a member of AmeriHealth Caritas, is a

Medical Assistance (Medicaid) managed care health plan serving more than

114,000 Medical Assistance recipients across two regions of Pennsylvania.

Headquartered in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, AmeriHealth Caritas offers all

of the benefits and services of regular Medical Assistance, plus special

programs and benefits that are only available to AmeriHealth Caritas

members. My duties included but were not limited to helping people get

care, stay well and build healthy communities, with a special concern for

the poor. The company's corporate parent partners are two of the nation's

largest Blue health insurers, Independence Blue Cross (IBC) and Blue Cross

Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM).

September 2012 - September 2013 AmeriHealth Caritas Partnership

Philadelphia, PA

Coordinator

Worked with the nonprofit 501(c)(3) public charitable organization to help

facilitate various programs and initiatives to promote and advance health

equity and address health disparities in Philadelphia.

Also organized for and collaborated with Drexel University and the

University of Pennsylvania to conduct a study that evaluated the

effectiveness of faith-based community health improvement programs. The

mission of the partnership was to promote and advance health equity for all

by conducting health promotion and prevention programs that address the

prevalence of diseases in vulnerable and underserved populations.

Coordinated Programs:

. Healthy Hoops

Healthy Hoops is an innovative asthma management program that uses

basketball as a platform to teach children with asthma and their

families how to manage asthma through proper nutrition, exercise and

appropriate medication use.

. Health Ministry

The Health Ministry Program is a faith-based health education program

designed to educate participants on important health topics, including

breast cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke and hypertension, medical

adherence, heart disease awareness and prevention, stress, depression,

and emotional and mental well-being.

. Safe Playground Build

Safe playground program, "The Power to Change a Child's World," helps

promote healthy lifestyles for kids by decreasing childhood obesity

and preventing injuries that result from obsolete and dangerous

equipment. Studies show that education, development and providing

adult supervised activities reduce the amount of play injuries while

increasing motivation and physical fitness

September 2012 - May 2013 Regional Health Equity Council (RHEC)

Philadelphia, PA

Coordinator

Represented the Mid-Atlantic region of the RHEC, and helped coordinate and

participate in summits of all the regions in Washington D.C. Worked with

key members from both public and private sectors, including academia,

health systems, health insurers, state legislators, faith-based and

community organizations, foundations, and state government organizations to

strategize and implement effective methods to advance the agenda of

eliminating health disparities and improving health equity from the

grassroots.

My duties as assigned for the RHEC were to:

. Identify key regional health inequity issues and drivers, and advance

a responsive agenda.

. Use the collective power of organizations represented on the RHECs to

derive models for and promote cross-sector collaboration.

. Initiate new and support existing regional policies and action to

eliminate health disparities.

. Leverage opportunities available through organizations and sectors

represented on the council to address health disparities.

. Convene regional stakeholders and partners to address regional health

disparities issues.

April 2011 - August 2011 Democratic Party of Georgia

Atlanta, GA

Political Intern

Involved in local and state level Georgia elections and helped coordinate

numerous political fund raisers, events, party promotions and political

campaigns for Democratic Party chair Mike Berlon. Responsibilities

associated with this internship included information gathering at the

capitol, media surveillance, various writing projects (press releases,

emails, blog posts), video editing, graphic design, event planning,

researching, voter outreach, list/registration management, and various

special projects as needed by the Party and DPG staff.

SKILLS

. Proficient and well versed in all versions of Microsoft Office Word,

Excel, and PowerPoint, etc.

. Experience with Healthcare Management systems such as JIVA, IAD,

Streamline & EXP.

. Extremely proficient with social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,

etc.)

References are available upon request.

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