East Central Indiana Area Health Education Center

11/22/2025

🩺❤️ ECI-AHEC Scholars are at Mississinewa Thanksgiving Wellness Fair 2025 today!

11/19/2025

Ms. Breyonnah Davis held the career exploration activity: Patient Zero with Blackford High School today. 🧪🦠🩺🔬

11/18/2025

ECI-AHEC’s quarterly Advisory Board meeting was hosted by Ivy Tech today. After the meeting, we were able to tour the healthcare facilities and simulation labs. We are excited about Ivy Tech’s new CMA/AAMA pathway beginning in Fall of 2026. 🩺 ♥️

11/18/2025

AHEC has allowed me explore career opportunities, network with employers, and fully indulge myself in associations/programs within niches of my interest during my graduate studies. This previous week I attended the Indiana National School Nutrition Conference in French Lick, Indiana. This conference hosted over 300 individuals from varying schools across the state, over 100 venders advocating for student and children health, and resources to help registered dietitian, school facilities, and managers to communicate and inspire on another to implement strategies and programs for unmet needs in their schools. I learned how to navigate new FDA guidelines, implement sustainable initiatives, and the importance of balanced meals for children of all ages and incomes.

Favorite part: Our keynote speaker, Vickie Coffee, spoke on reframing your mind in personal and professional settings from an “I can’t” to exploring the reasons for this (ex. I don’t want to, I am fearful, I don’t want to fail). What truly is the barrier for these words, “I can’t”? In addition, I connected with likeminded individuals during sessions, networked with venders, and gained professional experience to build my resume post graduate studies. (Sarah Obermeier, BSU Nutrition and Health Sciences)

11/17/2025

Interested in learning more about OCD? Please check out this amazing opportunity to learn more. This opportunity is offered to students and practitioners. Scan the QR Code to register.

11/13/2025

Say hello to our new Assistant Director of Outreach and Secondary Education, Breyonnah Davis. Breyonnah has a degree in Social Work. She has been very involved in pathways and career exploration with experience in dual enrollments.

Welcome aboard Breyonnah Davis!

11/12/2025

11/10/2025

We've been asked a lot, lately, where individuals can get Narcan here in Muncie, so we're sharing our updated poster!

And just as a reminder, this Narcan is available free, to you, and is accessible 24/7

11/07/2025

11/01/2025

♥️🩺 ECI-AHEC Scholars are conducting free health screenings today at IU Health Jay County Hospital for the 2025 Hispanic Health Fair. ECI-AHEC has also facilitated in having the BSU Audiology department here to conduct free hearing screenings.

11/01/2025

The Ross Community Center has been at the forefront of combatting food insecurity in our community over the last few years. In view of the upcoming cuts in SNAP benefits, we continue with our pledge to support our community members who will be even more deeply affected by these adverse circumstances. We are partnering with our Thomas Park Neighborhood Association to address food insecurity among our neighbors in the upcoming days. We are delighted that three community members have already reached out to donate to us for this cause, for which we are very grateful. We will strive to provide food more frequently, and two ways in which we will address this issue will be through our bi-weekly free community market and having shelf-stable foods for families throughout the week.

We have a strong partnership with Second Harvest Food Bank from whom we purchase food to share at our free community market every other Friday and we look forward to deepening this partnership to share larger quantities of food. Our next market will be on Friday November 7 beginning at 3 pm, until we run out of food. Should anyone be interested in donating to support our community through these trying times of food insecurity, you can do so in several ways:

(1) By donating through our website www.rosscentermuncie.org/donate , with a note saying it is for food.

(2) Sending us a check written out to the Ross Community Center with food in the memo line.

(3) Purchasing shelf-stable food and bringing it to our center, or letting us know where we can pick it up. Within possibility, please donate food paired for meals, e.g. five packets/boxes of pasta with five jars/cans of pasta sauce; 6 32oz boxes of shelf stable milk with 6 boxes of cereal; small cases of applesauce; five packets of rice with ten cans of beans and so forth.

We thank you for your support and please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, concerns or suggestions. We are all in this together. You can call us at (765) 747-4741, email Jacqueline Hanoman, our Executive Director, at director@rosscentermuncie.org, or come to our center at 1110 W 10th Street, Muncie 47302.

11/01/2025

⚠️ FOOD ASSISTANCE UPDATE ⚠️

The Grant County Health Department has announced that the Prenatal Food Box Program has been temporarily expanded to include households with children under the age of 18.

🍎 This program—offered through the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) in partnership with Gleaners Food Bank and local health departments—provides temporary food assistance to families facing food insecurity.

🗓️ Program begins November 6, 2025
Each family will receive one dry food box and one produce box every two weeks.
➡️ You MUST pre-register before picking up your food box.

📍 Locations & Dates:
Grant County Health Department
401 S. Adams St., Marion
🗓️ 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month
🕛 Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Delaware County Health Department
125 N. Mulberry St., Muncie
🗓️ 1st & 3rd Thursday of each month
🕚 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Tipton County Health Department
101 E. Jefferson St., Tipton
🗓️ 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month
🕛 Noon – 1:30 p.m.

Madison County Health Department
119 Jackson St., Anderson
🗓️ 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month
🕚 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

📲 Register online: [Scan the QR code in the image]

This program will continue until further notice. Participants will be notified of any updates via email or phone.