PBHA’s Peer Health Exchange teaches health workshops to high school students who urgently need them. Peer Health Exchange’s mission is to give teenagers the knowledge and skills they need to make healthy decisions. We do this by training college students to teach a comprehensive health curriculum in public high schools that lack health education. This year, Harvard volunteers will reach 500 students. For more information, contact Madeleine Ballard (mballard@fas.harvard.edu) or Moises Gallegos (gallegos@fas.harvard.edu)
This post was written by admin on September 21, 2009
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formerly Cerebral Palsy Friends (CPF)
Join PBHA’s Kids with Special Needs Achievement Program (KSNAP)! Every Friday afternoon we plan fun and educational classroom activities for 4th & 5th grade special education students in Chinatown and South Boston, including field trips every semester. As a KSNAPista, you’ll have the power to change a young student’s life as well as the opportunity to have your life changed in turn. For more information, contact Julia Hansford (julia.hansford@gmail.com) or Kelly McPherson (kmcpherson12@college.harvard.edu).
Harvard Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) offers students two exciting opportunities to serve their community in a medical context. First, HEMS provides students with the training to become fully certified CPR/First Aid/AED instructors so that they can then teach Harvard, Cambridge, and Boston community members these crucial life-saving skills. This year, a group of instructors trained this fall have already begun teaching classes, and a spring course will be offered if there is sufficient interest. Second, a newly launched program trains students to be certified as an EMT-basic so that they can volunteer or work for local ambulance companies and is just underway. For more information contact hems@hcs.harvard.edu or the director Patrick Mulvaney (mulvaney@fas).
The Committee on Deaf Awareness works to promote understanding and awareness of the Deaf community. CODA offers on-campus American Sign Language (ASL) classes for Harvard students taught by a professional ASL instructor. Students can then use their ASL skills to participate in CODA’s mentoring program, which pairs Harvard students with deaf children in the Boston area. If you are interested in ASL classes or the mentoring program, please contact West (resendes@fas) and Caroline (clowe@fas).
This post was written by admin on July 2, 2009
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Become part of a new and exciting program on campus! The Codman Volunteer Program is looking for new volunteers in the recently opened and renovated child-care area of the Codman Square Health Center! Codman is dedicated to serving underprivileged members of the Dorchester community who do not have access to health insurance. Students interested in volunteering at the health center will be involved in staffing the child-care areas as well as teaching health education in areas such as health, nutrition, and hygiene. Students will also have the opportunity to work closely with neighborhood leaders, shadow doctors at the clinic, and learn more about community organizing. Volunteers must be able to commit to one two-hour weekday shift and weekly Sunday meetings for at least two semesters. Interest in health care and education preferred. Please contact codman@hcs.harvard.edu or Jim Li (jimli@fas) and Evelyn Park (ejpark@fas) for more information.
