Partners In Community Health (PICH)

Volunteer Opportunities

Our Mission

To authentically engage medically underserved communities in addressing health disparities. By establishing meaningful relationships between students, health professionals, community leaders, and citizens, we will work together for sustainable solutions. 

2013-2014 Internships We would like to maintain our partnership with these

organizations. We ask that you follow the following guidelines: Feel free to contact partners for more information. However,

please follow through when you contact a partner. Think carefully about your schedule and interests before you commit to a project/partner.

Please fill out a log when you volunteer. You can find logs under the Member Portal tab on our website. Additionally if you choose to keep a log yourself, please share your hours with PICH every semester (pich.umntc@gmail.com). We would like to get an idea of how many volunteer hours go

through PICH to determine to effectiveness of our program. Please let us know if there are problems with your site so that

we can address them as soon as possible.

2014 Internships Sites Breck Homes CUHCC FHCH FEDS MN Trans Health Coalition Neighborhood Health Source NACC NorthPoint Red Wing Southside

Need to find a new site Dignity Therapy Record stories for people in hospice Can be difficult to get patients Less acute setting than hospice Existing group of students interested; Owen

can put you in contact with them ALS clinic? Clare Housing

Owen

CUHCC Who they serve: Community-University Health Care Center (CUHCC)

opened its doors in 1966 to  provide primary care services to children and low income families in South Minneapolis to provide excellent community health care for diverse populations. They work with Spanish, Cambodian, Hmong/Lao, Vietnamese and Somali translators.  

Volunteer Opportunities Provide Communications/Clinic Outreach Attend community health fairs and events, and maintain distribution tracking list

Distribute family planning materials to various affordable housing units surrounding CUHCC and to staff of about 25‐50 health, housing employment and human service agencies (track distribution list).

“Welcoming presence” in Lobby Assist patients as they get into lines for check‐in. Assist staff who are getting patients from waiting room into clinical areas, by finding the patient they’re trying to room. Assist patients with routine health history questionnaires as they wait to be called to clinical areas. Provide in‐person messaging link between front desk and clinical areas, upon on request from CUHCC staff. Read to children. Hand out health education materials from a desk or table in the lobby. Periodically: hand out short surveys to patients as they sit in lobby.

Fairview HospiceVolunteer opportunities:

Patient/Caregiver Support Volunteers Provide support and comfort by helping with the practical needs of patients and their caregivers.

11th Hour Volunteers Provide companionship and support in the final 24-72 hours of life

We Honor Veterans (WHV) Volunteers Provide end of life care that meets the unique needs of veterans and to recognize them for their service to our country

Do Re Mi Volunteers Provide enjoyment and relaxation through playing musical instruments and/or singing to patients/caregivers

FEDS – Family Education Diabetes Sessions Who They Serve: Primarily older, Native American people

from the twin cities area who are concerned about developing diabetes or who already have. The Saint Paul Area Council of Churches and the Department of Indian Work help to present a dinner series open to anyone where attendees can get their blood pressure, weight, BMI and blood glucose screened, have a healthy dinner, and have presentations about diabetes. 

Volunteers Opportunities

 Education SeriesStudents make 5-10 minute presentations about aspects of life with diabetes, help with the screenings, and assist with serving the dinner. 

Dinner is every other Tuesday, 5:30-7:30. 

MTHC Externship

While support for people in the LGBTQ community is growing, gender non-conforming individuals still face significant barriers to accessing health care, as well as health disparities on top of the everyday prejudice, violence, and discrimination they may experience in the community. Since trans-allied providers are needed in all specialties and all communities, our hope is that this exposure to the gender non-conforming community will help students to become more culturally competent.

This is not an official university program, so there is a lot of flexibility. Typically the externship includes:  Minnesota Trans Health and Wellness Conference Workshop on the basics of transgender health care with Reclaim, a center for gender non-conforming youth Workshop on dismantling transphobia with Alex Iantaffi of the Center for Sexual Health Informal meeting with a transgender patient Shadowing several trans-friendly physicians   In total, the externship will be approximately 20-24 hours over the course of the next year and is extremely

flexible and self-scheduled.

Volunteer at clinic

MTHC, cont. Externship Volunteer at clinic

Experienced volunteers needed to help with our Shot Clinic and other direct services -- giving hormones shots, doing Hep C testing and doing outreach

Work on newsletter and fundraising mailings, compiling materials, and stuffing envelopes

Help with outreach by staffing information tables at events throughout the year in both the Twin Cities and in Greater Minnesota

Help organize and produce the annual Minnesota Trans Health and Wellness Conference, a full weekend event with workshops, health screenings, info fair, and more!

Become a member of the MTHC training team and help educate health care providers, office staff, and students on how to provide equitable and competent care and services to the trans community

Collaborate on planning future events and programming Join our Board of Directors and help with the regular planning and

function of our nonprofit organization

Neighborhood HealthSource Who they serve: Neighborhood HealthSource has provided

quality, affordable health care to our community for more than 40 years. Neighborhood HealthSource started as two small, "free clinics" — Beltrami Health Center (now Central Clinic) and Fremont Clinic, staffed by volunteers and operating out of make shift rooms in community centers. The clinics incorporated in 1971, in the early '80s, bought and renovated their facilities and merged in 1988 to form Fremont Community Clinics, Inc. In 1995 we opened Sheridan Clinic in Northeast Minneapolis.

Volunteer opportunities:

Community Outreach Representative Assist our Community Health Worker for our various outreach projects to conduct outreach work in the communities of North and Northeast Minneapolis. Talk one on one with community members about Neighborhood HealthSource’s services and outreach programs .Answer questions. Provide further resources

NACC Who they serve: Native American families in

the metropolitan area who cannot afford health care.

Volunteer opportunities at Running Wolf

Fitness Center AttendantsTasks: Health education, assist manager and fitness instructors, offer health education classes and attend health fairs

**time commitment varies as needed

NorthPoint Who they serve: NorthPoint strives to improve the

physical and socio-economic health of the North Minneapolis community through an integrated model of health and human services.

Community Outreach Representative. assist our Community Health Workers conduct outreach

work in the communities of North Minneapolis and in our Lobby.

Outreach work consists of performing health screenings (blood pressure screening), referring clients to our clinic, distributing NorthPoint brochures and flyers detailing health services and programs in addition to answering health related questions. 

Volunteering as a Community Outreach Representative is a great opportunity for volunteers who would like to work in community health or medicine.

Community Outreach volunteers usually contribute a couple hours a week Monday-Thursday between 9am-2pm.

Red Wing Free community clinic Tue. PM Vista volunteer, nurse, volunteer doctors, med

students Intake, vitals, room, help with directions Wellness program

Southside Who they serve: residents of Southern Minneapolis who do

not have the means to get to a clinic or dental office to receive care.  With mobile units, the Southside Medical and Dental Clinic can provide care in a safe, non-threatening manner.

Volunteer opportunities

Community Clinic Intern - Medical Mobile UnitTasks:Work with the Medical Mobile Unit to help fulfill the medical needs of southern Minneapolis neighborhoods while learning about how a community clinic operates.  This volunteer opportunity is a self-directed and intimate way to become involved in a Minneapolis neighborhood.  

Requires: Application, shadowing/training period, individual goal/project at the clinic, Dental and medical components

4 Hour sessions

Wellness Sessions Curriculum on wellness education Needs a new site (previously at NorthPoint)

CUHCC??