a partnership<\/a> to expand healthcare access for downtown Reading residents and develop a state-of-the-art community-based health center that will be housed at the former American House property. In addition to traditional primary care services, the Berks Community Health Center will offer mental health services, nutrition and wellness education, financial literacy education, social services assistance, and warm hand-off referrals. The site will also host clinical experiential learning opportunities for Alvernia\u2019s students in health care science and social services programs. By providing primary care alongside various comprehensive wrap-around services, BCHC\u2019s new Community Health Center will serve over 2,000 unduplicated individuals during the first year of operation.<\/p>\n Alvernia University and Caterpillar Inc. Collaborate to Strengthen STEM Education and Champion a Workforce-Ready Pipeline<\/p>\n
Regional pilot will support educators, expand hands-on STEM learning opportunities, and build sustainable talent pipelines<\/p>\n
Alvernia, Schuylkill YMCA cut ribbon on new gymnastics facility<\/p>\n
Completion of Phases I & II of Pottsville CollegeTowne brings total investment in downtown Pottsville to $8 million<\/p>\n
Alvernia University breaks ground on American House renovation at Reading CollegeTowne<\/p>\n
Renovation will expand healthcare access, experiential learning and inclusive workforce development in downtown Reading<\/p>\n
Santander US gifts $50,000 to support Alvernia’s Reading Collegiate Scholars Program<\/p>\n
Investment expands tuition scholarships and wraparound support for Berks County students<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American House at Reading CollegeTowne The American House at Reading CollegeTowne is part of Alvernia\u2019s downtown Reading footprint.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[128,130,129],"class_list":["post-174187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}