{"id":9224,"date":"2019-01-31T10:31:31","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/?p=9224"},"modified":"2019-01-31T10:31:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T18:31:31","slug":"hopefest-volunteer-opportunity-for-health-sciences-students-316","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/2019\/01\/hopefest-volunteer-opportunity-for-health-sciences-students-316\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopefest Volunteer Opportunity For Health Sciences Students &#8211; 3\/16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Volunteers needed! Hope Festival 2019 \u2013 March 16<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hopefest is an entirely youth-run annual event that serves those experiencing poverty and homelessness across King County. Each year, Hopefest provides 1,000 in-need guests with free groceries, clothes, hygiene items, books, and free services such as haircuts, massages, dental care, entertainment, and much more. Guest&#8217;s connections made with local agencies and community organizations at the event will last far beyond the single-day event. Each year, clients walk away from this powerful day of giving with a reaffirmed belief that they are cared for by a compassionate community.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefest is planned and executed by local high school students with the help of 300 volunteers, and through partnerships with local businesses and organizations. This year, Hopefest will be on <strong>March 16<sup>th<\/sup>, at the Bellevue Highland Community Center<\/strong>. <strong>Guests will be served from 3-7pm<\/strong>. (If you would like to learn more about Hopefest, check out the 2018 event recap video\u2014where 1,066 individuals were served\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DiSQ8YN-oqGI%26feature%3Dyoutu.be&amp;data=02%7C01%7CKim.Nguyen%40kingcounty.gov%7C6b66dce2715d4dd6e8a908d6832871d0%7Cbae5059a76f049d7999672dfe95d69c7%7C0%7C0%7C636840607071174175&amp;sdata=cISLOuERld6nklLq63u2O4qKb32Gb66Wq1kgbSZH9rY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hopefest is looking to partner with service providers who could possibly offer free flu shots, free BP checks, HIV and Hep C screenings, and\/or similar services to some of our guests at Hopefest 2019. Contact Tyler Zangaglia: <a href=\"mailto:tylerzang@outlook.com\">tylerzang@outlook.com<\/a><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volunteers needed! Hope Festival 2019 \u2013 March 16 Hopefest is an entirely youth-run annual event that serves those experiencing poverty and homelessness across King County. Each year, Hopefest provides 1,000 in-need guests with free groceries, clothes, hygiene items, books, and free services such as haircuts, massages, dental care, entertainment, and much more. Guest&#8217;s connections made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-internships-volunteer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9225,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9224\/revisions\/9225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/mswnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}