Partners In Community Health
(PICH)
Volunteer Opportunities
Our Mission
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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
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We would like to maintain our partnership with these
organizations. We ask that you follow the following guidelines:
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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).
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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
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Breck Homes
CUHCC
FHCH
FEDS
MN Trans Health Coalition
Neighborhood Health Source
NACC
NorthPoint
Red Wing
Southside
Need to find a new site
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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
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ALS clinic?
Clare Housing
Owen
CUHCC
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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 Hospice
Volunteer opportunities:
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Patient/Caregiver Support Volunteers Provide support and comfort by helping with
the practical needs of patients and their caregivers.
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11th Hour Volunteers Provide companionship and support in the final 24-72 hours
of life
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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
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Do Re Mi Volunteers Provide enjoyment and relaxation through playing musical
instruments and/or singing to patients/caregivers
FEDS – Family Education Diabetes
Sessions
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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
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Education Series
Students make 5-10 minute presentations about aspects of life with
diabetes, help with the screenings, and assist with serving the dinner.
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Dinner is every other Tuesday, 5:30-7:30.
MTHC
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Externship
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While support for people in the LGBTQ community is growing, gender nonconforming 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:
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Minnesota Trans Health and Wellness Conference
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Workshop on the basics of transgender health care with Reclaim, a center for gender non-conforming youth
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Workshop on dismantling transphobia with Alex Iantaffi of the Center for Sexual Health
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Informal meeting with a transgender patient
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Shadowing several trans-friendly physicians
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In total, the externship will be approximately 20-24 hours over the course of the next year and is extremely flexible
and self-scheduled.
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Volunteer at clinic
MTHC, cont.
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Externship
Volunteer at clinic
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Experienced volunteers needed to help with our Shot Clinic and other direct services - giving hormones shots, doing Hep C testing and doing outreach
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Work on newsletter and fundraising mailings, compiling materials, and stuffing envelopes
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Help with outreach by staffing information tables at events throughout the year in both
the Twin Cities and in Greater Minnesota
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Help organize and produce the annual Minnesota Trans Health and Wellness
Conference, a full weekend event with workshops, health screenings, info fair, and more!
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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
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Collaborate on planning future events and programming
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Join our Board of Directors and help with the regular planning and function of our
nonprofit organization
Neighborhood HealthSource
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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
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Who they serve: Native American families in the
metropolitan area who cannot afford health care.
Volunteer opportunities at Running Wolf
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Fitness Center Attendants
Tasks: Health education, assist manager and fitness
instructors, offer health education classes and attend
health fairs
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**time commitment varies as needed
NorthPoint
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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.
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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
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Free community clinic
Tue. PM
Vista volunteer, nurse, volunteer doctors, med students
Intake, vitals, room, help with directions
Wellness program
Southside
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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, nonthreatening manner.
Volunteer opportunities
Community Clinic Intern - Medical Mobile Unit
Tasks:
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.
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Requires:
Application, shadowing/training period, individual goal/project at the clinic,
Dental and medical components
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4 Hour sessions
Wellness Sessions
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Curriculum on wellness education
Needs a new site (previously at NorthPoint)
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CUHCC??