Stanton TN

Sharon Roberson’s early involvement with the Center for Health Services

Racial Disparities, Stories / By

Sharon Roberson tells of her first getting involved with the Center for Health Services, a Vanderbilt-sponsored affiliate program of the Student Health Coalition. She worked in West Tennessee (primarily Haywood County) and explains that unique to this region, in comparison to much of East Tennessee, was the motivation to establish economic justice amidst severe racial …

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Grant proposal process for the Douglas Community Health Center

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Jean Carney details the convoluted grant proposal and approval process for establishing the Douglas Community Health Center, and the lengths to which she and others had to go to make it happen. Despite the several setbacks, she persisted and the money came through.   Full footage of Jean Carney’s tour and narrative of the Douglas …

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Origins of the Douglas Community Health Center’s Board of Directors

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Jean Carney recounts the story of how the Board of Directors for the Douglas Community Health Center in Stanton, Tenn. first came to be, as well as the role Irwin Venick‘s feasibility study played in determining the community’s need for a clinic.   Full footage of Jean Carney’s tour and narrative of the Douglas Community …

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Jean Carney

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Jean was a community leader in the 1960s and 1970s in and around Brownsville, Rossville, and Stanton in West Tennessee.  With help from the health fairs conducted by Student Health Coalition (SHC), including students from Meharry and Vanderbilt, Jean helped ensure the establishment of the first primary care clinic in Stanton, Tenn.  To this day …

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