A T STILL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE

A. T. STILL UNIVERSITY – SCHOOL OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE IN ARIZONA

UPSILON CHAPTER OF SIGMA PHI

2018 -2019 OFFICERS President: Grace Chang, OMS IV Current: Brooklyn, NY Vice President: Samantha Ho, MS, OMS IV Current: Brooklyn, NY

2018 -2019 OFFICERS Secretary: Treasurer: Grace Kim, OMS III Sameeha Khalid, OMS IV Current: Phoenix, AZ Current: Tucson, AZ

WHERE ARE WE LOCATED? CHCs: ◦ Brooklyn ◦ Chicago ◦ Washington DC ◦ Flagstaff ◦ Ohio ◦ Phoenix ◦ Portland ◦ South Carolina ◦ Tucson ◦ Seattle

MEMBERSHIP Currently: 42 members Class of 2019: 21 Class of 2020: 17 Class of 2021: 4

MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION Application Committee composed of 21 members + 4 Executive board members Based on Scoring Rubric revised Spring 2018: Community service while at SOMA ATSU club membership, employment, leadership, research projects Essay on most rewarding community service experience Overall Applicant presentation Cover letter and CV also included 2018 Spring/Fall Application: 43 applications

MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS • Must be ranked top 20% in class • Maintain GPA requirement (>85%) • No course or clinical clerkship failures • Mandatory meetings: • 1 general chapter meeting per semester • 1 additional meeting per semester Volunteer hours: To be submitted on COSGP TOUCH website. • Hours will be checked throughout the semester • For OMS-I and OMS-II • 10 hours of community service per semester (20 total) • For OMS-III and OMS-IV • 1 community service event per semester (2 total) •

RULES AND REGULATIONS Missed Meetings • Must contact Grace Kim, SSP Secretary regarding missing meeting • Missing meetings will be considered on a case-by-case basis Dismissal from SSP • Three strikes policy • Includes: • Poor academic performance • Missed meeting without prior notification • Lack of community service participation • For Academic Probation: Meeting with Advisor Dr. Mc. William to discuss ways to maintain GPA

CHAPTER GOALS FOR 2018 -2019 Promote scholarly activities amongst peers Academic Committee Journal Club Invite speakers to chapter meetings (Alumni residency panel, GHHS) Develop and provide resources for scholastic and clinical success Leadership development Improve Service Month - increased participation from non-SSP members Develop sustainable projects Apply for grants for CHC projects

SERVICE MONTH: MARCH 2018 Our theme this year was “Sustainability. ” We wanted CHCs to create and contribute to projects that can be continued in the future, either as future Sigma Phi service projects, or projects that the CHCs could work on to just give back to the community. March 2019 – Next service month

SEATTLE, WA Project Title: Youth. Care Brunch for Homeless Youth Project Goals: To prepare and serve a nutritious meal for the homeless youth of Seattle with the help of the Youth. Care organization (www. youthcare. org) Project Description: Our group decided to prepare meals at Youth. Care, which is an organization that benefits homeless youth of Seattle. Each night in Seattle, 700 -1000 youth are homeless. Youth. Care serves children and young adults from ages 12 -24, and provides many additional services. We served brunch on 3/31/18 at the Youth. Care Orion Center in Downtown Seattle. We made pancakes with bacon and a fruit salad. We served approximately 25 homeless youth, and any leftovers were served later in the day.

PORTLAND, OR Project Title: Evening Hospitality Location: St. Andre Bessette Church Project Goals: Serve a warm meal and offer companionship to adult community members experiencing poverty, homelessness, mental illness, and addiction. Project Description: We volunteered along with a larger group, some of whom are there regularly and some who were volunteering for the first time. All the volunteers arrived early for an orientation, got job assignments, and ate dinner together. The meal for the night was chili, salad, sandwiches, and ice cream. It was prepared by volunteers from Jesuit High School. Once the community members arrived for dinner, we had several different roles. We were greeting, making name tags, serving food, serving water, passing out snacks, bussing tables, and having conversations with community members. Community members were also able to access items like socks, underwear, hygiene supplies, and blankets. Following evening hospitality, the volunteers met to have a debrief or reflection on the night. It was a peaceful and enjoyable evening. The weather has been very nice in Portland, so the church expected a smaller turnout than they would see on a rainy or cold night. However, the church was still very full and lively.

PHOENIX, AZ Project Title: Feed My Starving Children Project Goals: To get as many people as possible to participate in making food packets for starving children around the world. Project Description: Feed My Starving Children (FMSC) is a Christian non-profit organization that provides nutritionally complete meals specifically formulated for malnourished children in impoverished and underdeveloped nations around the world. The organization runs completely off of donations for monetary support and volunteer action to pack the meals. The Phoenix CHC participated in a volunteer event that allowed us to help pack meals for children in Thailand. We packed 19, 440 meals during the 2. 5 hour event which is enough meals to feed 53 children for one year.

FLAGSTAFF, AZ Project Title: Flagstaff Family Food Center Project Goals: Help feed the homeless in Flagstaff during the winter months Project Description: We reached out the Flagstaff Family Food Center around 3 months prior to event to inquire about volunteer opportunity. They responded that they would be happy to have us and could accommodate 1 to 15 volunteers for the requested date of 3/10/18. The Flagstaff Family Food Center is a food bank and kitchen. They have been serving meals to underserved individuals in Flagstaff, AZ since 1991. Four members of our Community Healthcare Center cohort attended the service project day to prepare food for folks to be served later on that same day. We were present at the event for approximately 6 hours. The event well and our volunteers received positive feedback after the session. Additionally, considering the Flagstaff Family Food Center is well-established in the community, on-going, and easy to arrange volunteer opportunities, we feel this project is a sustainable option in Flagstaff.

TUCSON, AZ Project Title: WORKShip Project Goals: Sustainable, community based, health-care oriented Project Description: The WORKship project provides food, first aid, clothing, and pet supplies for the homeless. As medical students, we volunteer to help provide first-aid care to the homeless population in Tucson. This includes obtaining vitals, taking a history and doing a simple physical exam, presenting to an attending physician or nurse practitioner, providing wound care/breathing treatments/education as needed, and helping navigate resources for obtaining health care at the El Rio CHC, etc. At the end of every month there is also a training session relevant to homeless medicine. The training session we attended this past month addressed sexually transmitted infections in homeless medicine.

WASHINGTON, D. C. Project Title: Outreach Clinic for Homeless Project Goals: Increase flu vaccination in the homeless population, provide basic medical screening (blood pressure, glucose finger sticks), encourage people to be connected with a primary care provider through Unity Health Care Project Description: The Washington, D. C. CHC and Unity Health Care partnered with other organizations, including the DOH, DHS, Safeway and medical reserve Corps, to host a free Flu Vaccine Clinic in the city. The Unity Health Care table offered free health screenings such as blood pressure checks and glucose finger sticks, as well as encouraging members of the community to become connected with the community health center for continuity of care. In addition to the flu vaccine, other services provided at the Flu Clinic addressed access to information for housing and resources to help with applications for employment.

HAWAII: KEIKI BACKPACK PROGRAM Project Title: Keiki Backpack Program Location: Kaimaile Academy Project Goals: Provide food for impoverished children during their week off for Spring Break Project Description: This project was a continuation of last year’s project: the Keiki Backpack Drive at Kamaile Academy. This year we were able to raise a little over $1, 300 and were able to provide 50 kids with breakfast, lunch, and snacks for spring break week, as well as new backpacks for the school year. We partnered with Tamura's Supermarket, a local supermarket, who was able to provide food donations; we also partnered with Vikki Hawk, the Director of American Indian Health Professions at A. T. Still, who was able to provide us with the backpacks. Jenna Wong led this year's project. Mitch Ornelas and Taylor Somora-Dietz, as well as the second year medical students, assisted with procuring the food from Costco and packing the backpacks. After being packed, the backpacks were delivered to Kamaile Academy. Cozy Mendoza, the school's outreach coordinator, was our main point of contact and is the individual in charge of identifying the students at the school with the highest needs. The kids were very appreciative and excited to receive their packs. We actually had to deliver about a dozen of them because some of the kids were unable to make it to school that day. About 15% of the kids selected are completely homeless and reside at the Waianae Boat Harbor, so without these packs, these kids would literally go without meals unless provided by another third party. Cozy mentioned to us that during spring break she usually gets several knocks on door throughout the week, either from either students or their parents, looking for food. We are working to put an end to this. It was an honor to participate in this program. There is plenty of work to be done in this community, but this is a small step towards ending childhood hunger in this region.

Logistics: We raised approximately $1, 300 via youcaring. com (https: //www. youcaring. com/homelesschildreninwestoahukamaile academy-1050632 ). The link was shared on Facebook. We partnered with Tamura's Market, the main grocery store in town, who was able to donate food. Backpack donor Vikki Hawk at ATSU (Director, National Center for American Indian Health Professions) was able to donate backpacks. Sustainability: We are partnered with Kaimaile Academy and have done previous projects at this school. There is a HUGE need in this community, as Waianae is one of the most homeless communities in the country. At least a dozen of these children are homeless and reside at the Waianae Boat Harbor. Per the outreach coordinator (Cozy), during Spring Break she usually gets several kids knocking on her door because they are hungry. We are also partnered the main, local grocery store as well as Vikki Hawk at ATSU, who provide food and backpacks in addition to what we obtained from fundraising.

BROOKLYN, NY Project Title: Redhook Community Farm Compost Project Location: Redhook Community Farm, Brooklyn Project Goals: Assist a local community farm that engages inner-city youth in planting and harvesting their own produce in addition to promoting green efforts in New York City. Our goal was to get as many CHC members out as possible to work together and turn mounds of compost for this community farm. Project Description: This project was conducted at Redhook Community Farm, which is located in a lower-income neighborhood of Brooklyn. The aim of the farm is to engage the community, especially the youth, in farming and utilizing local resources to grow produce in addition to composting with food scraps also obtained from the community. We arrived at the site on Saturday morning (March 10 th, 2018) and were provided with protective gloves and shovels. The volunteer coordinator gave us a brief introduction to composting and the importance of turning the mounds. We were instructed on the "spin cycle" method of turning the mound and immediately got to work. After a few cycles, we all realized that this was going to take some muscle! Half way through turning our mound, we welcomed a brief break while the volunteer coordinator gave us a talk about the history of the farm, composting, and current efforts in New York City. We got back to work after this and after about 2. 5 hours of composting, the ATSU-SOMA Brooklyn CHC group was able to turn an approximately 6 ton mound of compost! It was a rejuvenating experience and all of us who attended agreed to return to the farm in the future to volunteer again.

SOUTH CAROLINA Project Title: Easter Giving Project Goals: Aid poor children and help provide them with a happy holiday Project Description: CHC members and church members were able to create Easter “baskets” that included items for the home, monetary donations, and things for less fortunate kids to enjoy this Easter holiday.

VISALIA, CA Project Title: 4 th Annual Spring Kids Festival Project Goals: Provide screening of BP, glucose, hemoglobin and education regarding these values and lifestyle choices to address them. Project Description: The festival was hosted by the city of Hanford to encourage physical activity of children in the community and was joined by multiple booths from organizations related to dental, housing, medical, and job information booths for the adults accompanying all the children. These festivals are hosted in majority of the cities located relatively near each other here in Tulare County, so the organization that the ATSU-SOMA students are affiliated with here called Family Healthcare Network (FHCN) always send representatives to provide medical services at these functions. We the students then work with this organization to volunteer and actually provide those services in medically underserved populations spanning from the rural communities filled with migrant workers to impoverished inner city folk. We were able not only able to inform multiple adults in this community about the lab values from their screenings but also ways to address topics such as anemia, serum glucose control, healthy dietary habits, and compliance with medications in order to promote overall health in the community long after the event finishes. Medical equipment was provided by FHCN and the work was done by the medical students.

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