stu:MANY IMMEDIATE Volunteer needs!!!

1) Purple and Gold Experience on April 17th, Walker Ames – Kane Hall, 1:30-3PM. Come help MAPS recruit new members for next year!! 2) Pipeline Initiative- Help learn how suture and teach high school students how to suture!! When: Saturday April 20th- 1st shift: 9AM-12PM, 2nd shift 1PM-4PM Where-Location D1 Health Science Bldg Dental Clinic College Migrant Assistance Program (CAMP) Health Sciences Bldg D1 lab 9-12pm Skagit Valley School districts will be coming in UW School of Dentistry and School of Medicine to experience the dental lab and suturing. UW SOM part will run the suturing component. We are requesting volunteers who can assist the students with suturing techniques. I do need someone to teach the suturing to the high school students and I need volunteers to assist the instructor and students Downtown YMCA Achievers underserved population is invited to experience UW SOM and SOD dental lab and suturing activities. UW SOM part will run the suturing component. We are requesting volunteers who can assist the students with suturing techniques. I do need someone to teach the suturing to the high school students and I need volunteers to assist the instructor and students. 3) Al-Shifa UW chapter is looking for undergrad volunteers to volunteer alongside medical students and providers at our student run clinic: Casa Latina. “For those of you who have not heard about Al-Shifa, we are an organization that is a part of the UW school of medicine and have many ongoing projects and student run clinics. Currently we are looking for undergrad volunteers to serve as translators at our clinic located at Casa Latina, a workers resource center who offers a variety of programs to immigrants. Casa Latina clinic is a screen and refer clinic; which means that our main focus is to screen patients who are at risk for high blood pressure and diabetes and get them referred to a medical provider to be seen (many of these people have not seen a medical provider in as many as 10 years). At Casa Latina Clinic we do not treat or prescribe medicine rather we evaluate and consult one on one with the patient in order to fully understand their health care needs. The community that we serve are immigrants coming from Latin America mainly Mexico. We are looking for undergrad volunteers who are passionate about bridging the gap between being able to attain health care in vulnerable communities such as this. As a translator you will serve as a liaison between the providers and the patient and help these patients attain the health care that they need. If you are interested we ask that you speak fluent Spanish and are able to commit for at least one year. We also ask that you submit an email to us with a paragraph giving us some background on who you are and what past experiences contribute to your drive to help vulnerable communities like the ones Al-Shifa serves. There are limited spaces open and we ask that you submit the email to us by 9 pm Wednesday April 17, 2013. We will review emails and send responses by Friday April 19 and let you know what the next steps will be. If you’re interested please send emails to Gloria Flores at glorif@uw.edu Shereen Khorami Khorami19@hotmail.com and Noemi Correa (ncorrea@u.washington.edu) Please let us know if you have any questions and have a great day! Gloria Flores, Shereen Khorami, Noemi Correa Al-Shifa Undergrad Co-directors’13″