Maps Weekly Opportunities at a Glance (01/14) MAPS Alumni, we would like to hear back from you! Please see end of email for more information! Events Date of Events Resource Fair Thursday, January 17th Webinar: Addressing the health needs of women who are migrant and seasonal farmworkers Thursday, January 17th *For description of events, see rest of e-mail Want to know minute to minute updates about MAPS? Like it. Share it. http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Minority-Association-of-Pre-Health-Student s-UW/208566905883654> http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Minority-Association-of-Pre-Health-Students -UW/208566905883654 First MAPS Meeting of the Quarter!! Join us for the first MAPS meeting of the quarter on January 17th from 5 6 pm in the ECC black room!! There will be plenty of food and entertainment as we discuss the events MAPS has planned for this quarter! Others: *Check these websites for the latest opportunities: http://depts.washington.edu/prehlth/ http://depts.washington.edu/prehlth/ http://depts.washington.edu/omadcs/ http://depts.washington.edu/omadcs/ http://health.asuw.org/calendar/ http://health.asuw.org/calendar/ Events 1. Resource Fair 2. Webinar: Addressing the health needs of women who are migrant and seasonal farmworkers Volunteer/Involvement 3. Summer Medical Dental Education Program (SMDEP) 4. Global Impact Volunteer!! 5. Tufts University Adventures in Veterinary Medicine 2013 6. Mentor Connect 7. Camp Korey Volunteering Opportunity 8. Gap Medics Pre-health International Shadowing Opportunities 9. Seattle Children’s shadowing for UW Students 10. Student opportunities with United Way 11. Summer 2013 volunteer opportunity in Tanzania 12. Pipeline Projects Literacy Arts Alternative Spring Break 2013 Jobs/Internship/Fellowship 13. Oregon Health and Science University: Summer Internship Opportunity 14. University of Washington Environmental Health Summer Research Program 15. The Cannon Summer Scholars Program 16. Summer Research Positions 17. Research positions for LSAMP students Scholarship 18. ECC 2013 Scholarship 1. Resource Fair Featuring programs such as NASA, GenOM, SMDEP, McNair, STAR, IMSD, Boeing ALVA, Engineering Research Center for Sensorimotor Neural Engineering January 17, 2013 3:00-4:30 PM LSAMP Center MGH 311 2. Webinar: Addressing the health needs of women who are migrant and seasonal farmworkers The University of Washington Maternal and Child Public Health Leadership Training Program invites you to join us for a Webinar on Addressing the Health Needs of Women Who Are Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers: Challenges and Successes When: Thursday, January 17th at noon (Pacific Time) If you are interested in attending this one-hour Webinar, please send an email to shattuck@u.washington.edu> shattuck@u.washington.edu Details: To participate, youll need access to a computer and a phone. If more than one person in your office is interested in attending, please consider sharing a computer and phone. The Tuesday before the Webinar, well email you instructions for registering and downloading the needed iLinc web conferencing software. The session will be recorded and archived. Description: Migrant and seasonal farmworkers play a vital role in the Northwest Regions agricultural industry and economy. Women make up nearly a quarter of migrant and seasonal farmworkers nationwide. These women face many challenges in maintaining their health and accessing health services in rural areas. This webinar will provide an overview of issues affecting the health of women who are migrant and seasonal farmworkers. Speakers will discuss demographics for this population and the challenges these women face in accessing health care, and describe successful strategies for conducting outreach and providing appropriate services. Speakers: Renée Bouvion, MPH, is the Regional Womens Health Coordinator, Region 10 Office on Womens Health, US Department of Health and Human Services. She works with state and local health departments and community-based organizations in the states of Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington to promote the health of women and girls. She is a graduate of the Maternal and Child Public Health Leadership Training Program at the University of Washington, Seattle. Lorena Sprager administers farmworker outreach and community health worker programs at La Clínica del Cariño and Nuestra Comunidad Sana, located in Hood River, Oregon. She has over 25 years of experience working with Latinos to promote health, facilitate access to services, and develop leadership. Lorena is a member of the Clear Language Group, a national consortium of seven health literacy, plain language, and cross cultural communication specialists. She consults on plain Spanish and English language communication as well as community health worker programs through Lorena Sprager and Associates, LLC. Elsa Garcia, Med, is a Behavioral Health Coordinator at Quincy Community Health Center in Quincy, Washington. There she provides counseling and help with solving problems for patients referred to her by medical providers. She also provides community-based preventive health care education. For twelve years she was a social worker with First Steps, a Washington State Health Care Authority Medicaid program that helps low-income pregnant women get the health and social services they need. For more information about delivering public health interventions to women in rural communities in the Northwest Region and Alaska, see the Northwest Bulletins Place Matters: Preventive Health Programs to Reach Rural Women at http://depts.washington.edu/nwbfch/ http://depts.washington.edu/nwbfch/ Other resources on migrant and seasonal farmworkers: National Center for Farmworker Health, Inc. http://www.ncfh.org/ www.ncfh.org/ Rural Assistance Center-Migrant Health Resources http://www.raconline.org/topics/public_health/migrant.php www.raconline.org/topics/public_health/migrant.php Migrant Clinicians Network http://www.migrantclinician.org/ www.migrantclinician.org/ CDC Office of Minority Health and Health Equity Migrant Stream Forums http://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/EOs/Farmworker.html www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/EOs/Farmworker.html Womens Health Leadership Institute http://www.whli.org/ www.whli.org/ HHS Promotores de Salud Initiative http://www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=207 www.minorityhealth.hhs.gov/templates/browse.aspx?lvl=2&lvlid=207 The Silent Crisis: How to Do Outreach in an Anti-Immigrant Crisis http://www.outreach-partners.org/other/anti-immigrant-climate www.outreach-partners.org/other/anti-immigrant-climate Fear, Immigration, and Discrimination Factsheet http://www.outreach-partners.org/docs/FAN%20Fear%20Factsheet.pdf www.outreach-partners.org/docs/FAN%20Fear%20Factsheet.pdf Deborah Shattuck Public Information Specialist Maternal and Child Health Program http://depts.washington.edu/mchprog/ http://depts.washington.edu/mchprog/ Managing Editor, Northwest Bulletin: Family and Child Health http://depts.washington.edu/nwbfch/ http://depts.washington.edu/nwbfch/ University of Washington, Seattle shattuck@u.washington.edu> shattuck@u.washington.edu Phone: 206-543-4574 Fax: 206-616-8370 3. Summer Medical Dental Education Program (SMDEP) Each summer, the UW School of Medicine’s Center for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion & UW School of Dentistry Educational Partnerships and Diversity offers an unique opportunity for college freshman and sophomore students interested in medicine and dentistry. The Summer Medical Dental Education Program (SMDEP) is a six-week enrichment program for talented underrepresented college freshmen and sophomores interested in medicine or dentistry. The program will offer each scholar intensive enrichment in core science courses, clinical exposure, mentor shadowing and much more. The UW simultaneously aims to provide its participants with a deeper understanding of the needs of underserved communities within a supportive and diverse environment. The UW SMDEP has a 23 year proven record of success among our graduates. As of 2011, 870 of our SMDEP graduates have gone on to medical school or dental school. It is intended for students who are from disadvantaged backgrounds (economic, geographic, education) and/or students who are underrepresented in medicine (racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population). We feel that students who expect to encounter significant barriers in achieving their educational and professional goals will benefit from SMDEP. The UW SMDEP information/application is online at www.smdep.org. SMDEP application opens November 1st. The application deadline is March 1st. SMDEP has rolling admissions: SMDEP accepts students on an ongoing basis, so please apply early. View SMDEP video at
