SIGMA PHI Upsilon Chapter 2019 2020 National Osteopathic

SIGMA PHI Upsilon Chapter 2019 -2020 National Osteopathic Honors and Service Fraternity

Members and Application Process ◼ ◼ ◼ 29 Total Members 15 OMS IV 6 OMS III 7 OMS II 1 OMM Fellow ◼ ◼ ◼ Fall Application Cycle Spring Application Cycle 10 new members from Spring 2019 cycle Top 20% of each class can apply Each applicant submits Application, CV, and Cover Letter 3 reviewers per applicant

SERVICE MONTH: MARCH 2019 ◼ Service month is a time where SSP members lead their 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 2020 – Next service month

PORTLAND, OR ◼ Project Title: Spring Day of Stewardship with the Forest Park Conservancy ◼ Project Leader: Kelcey Dunaway, Rachel Chisausky ◼ Project Goals: To maintain and improve the soft surface trails in Forest Park for the use and enjoyment of thousands of visitors each year. ◼ Project Description: We participated in the Spring Day of Stewardship with the Forest Park Conservancy here in Portland, OR. The group worked at the Holman Lane Trailhead removing invasive plant species.

SEATTLE, WA ◼ Project Title: Youth. Care for Homeless Youth ◼ Project Leader: Jacare Cardoza ◼ Project Goals: We requested items to support the students enrolled in YC's new GED program. ◼ Project Description: We hosted a drive for Youth. Care. The GED curriculum has a unique art and social justice focus, with goals to help learners find their voice, become leaders, and affect social change. The organization is in high need of donations from the community to ensure a successful start to the program.

PHOENIX, AZ ◼ Project Title: Feed My Starving Children ◼ Project Leaders: Starr Matsushita, Sara Brundage ◼ 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 nonprofit 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 to feed 100 children in El Salvador.

FLAGSTAFF, AZ ◼ ◼ Project Title: Flagstaff Family Food Center Project Leader: Derik Kenworthy, Anna Marzvanyan ◼ Project Goals: Help feed the homeless in Flagstaff ◼ Project Description: The Flagstaff Family Food Center is a food bank and kitchen that serves meals to underserved individuals in Flagstaff, AZ since 1991. On the service project day, we prepared food for folks to be served later on that same day. 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: Casa Maria ◼ Project Leaders: Josephine Kim, Sameeha Khalid ◼ Project Goals: To assist the organization in whatever capacity they needed as they run 365 days per year solely relying on volunteers ◼ Project Description: Casa Maria is a community organization that provides resources for those in need including a soup kitchen, pantry, clothing, bathing facilities, etc. This organization receives food donations from various corporate grocery stores as well as individual private gardens and serves homeless or low-income individuals and families every day. We participated in various activities such as helping stock the pantries, assembling meal bags for individuals and families, serving food, and cleaning.

WASHINGTON, D. C. ◼ Project Title: DC Central Kitchen ◼ Project Leaders: Frances Chiang, Abigail Moeller ◼ Project Goals: To help serve the DC homeless population and to support the mission of DC Central Kitchen by participating in various tasks, including directly preparing meals, un-packaging shipments of new food, preparing food to be used for cooking the next day. ◼ Project Description: DC Kitchen is an organization that provides 3 million meals to the homeless population of DC each year. They are also committed to helping to train and provide jobs through a culinary program in their kitchen for those in need. We were able to spend an evening in the kitchen where we helped prepare food to be delivered to homeless shelters across the city, as well help unpack and organize other food items to be used for future meals.

HAWAII: KEIKI BACKPACK PROGRAM ◼ Project Title: Mentorship at Kealakehe High School. ◼ Project Leaders: : Taylor Samora-Dietz ◼ Project Goals: Providing mentorship and guidance to high school students at Kealakehe High School who are interested in careers in medicine ◼ Project Description: Hawaii, specifically Kona, is a very underserved region that relies on Oahu and even the mainland for medical services. Medical personnel, in particular physicians, are in extremely short supply on the Big Island due to the rural nature, low income-housing cost ratio, which results in poor physician retainment. It is therefore paramount to find and encourage local students who are interested in becoming physicians since they are the ones most likely to stay in the long run. They are also more aware of local issues which most people from the mainland are not. These include but are not limited to endemic diseases, cultural traditions (Micronesian, Polynesian, Melanesian, Filipino, Hawaiian) and views on Western medicine, as well as diets that vary considerably from the typical American diet.

BROOKLYN, NY ◼ Project Title: Soup Kitchen at Susan’s Place in the Bronx ◼ Project Leaders: : Pragya Kalla, Svetlana Duvidovich ◼ Project Goals: Assist in providing meals to the residents of the women’s shelters ◼ Project Description: Susan’s Place, a 180 -bed (now a 200 bed) transitional residence with an onsite medical and dental clinic on August 6, 2008. Susan’s Place is dedicated to serving medically frail and mentally ill homeless women, providing them with healthy meals, clean clothing, recreational activities and a broad range of primary health care and social services. Susan’s Place gives these women a safe and supportive environment and the services that will help keep them re-housed after we place them in permanent housing.

CHICAGO, IL ◼ Project Title: “Give a Coffee, Get a Coffee” ◼ Project Leaders: : Paul Cowan, Natascha Cirignani ◼ Project Goals: Raise money to help fund Reclaim 13 mentorship program. . ◼ Project Description: We raised 20 giftcards to donate to Reclaim 13 mentorship program. Reclaim 13 is an organization to help get young girls out of sex trafficking (13 being average of entering sex-trafficking). The mentorship program is for the girls who can’t enter the safe house for whatever reason so they are instead assigned a mentor who meets with them weekly. It is unsafe for the mentor to share their address so we often meet our mentees at coffee shops.

BEAUFORT, SC ◼ Project Title: Food and Clothing Drive for Bluffton Self Help ◼ Project Leaders: Sarah Fine, Sarah Shaw ◼ Project Goals: to help supply the organization with some of the items they need, as well as educate medical students about a vital resource in the area that much of our patient population relies on. ◼ Project Description: Bluffton self help is a local non profit organization that provides support for people in the community who are experiencing crises. We collected clothing and non perishable food from students to donate to this organization.

VISALIA, CA ◼ Project Title: Happy Feet Clinic ◼ Project Leader: Tom Sam ◼ Project Goals: To address chronic medical issues in the underserved and homeless population in Tulare County. ◼ Project Description: This event allows for donation of shoes and volunteering medical providers perform feet washing, cleaning and exams. The project is ran by 4 community partners, including the community health center we work for (Family Healthcare Network)

CINCINNATI, OH ◼ Project Title: Health and Wellness Event with Bhutanese & Burundian Refugees ◼ Project Leader: Kathryn Lafans ◼ Project Goals : To educate the refugees on basic health hygiene, dental hygiene, wellness practices such as yoga and music therapy and citizenship exams. Also to provide them with resources for receiving healthcare provided by Health. Source of Ohio ◼ Project Description: We partnered with Global Music & Wellness to host a Health and Wellness Event. We scheduled a yoga instructor, a Chinese zither player and cultural dancers to perform at the event. Also collected from Health. Source of Ohio for free swag (toothpaste, floss, etc and resource pamphlets). We created educational poster boards to present our health information to the attendees of the event and put together two jeopardy games. The jeopardy games included health/dental health and citizenship based questions. We also provided a light snack.

Thank you everyone for all your contribution to making Service Month a success!!