Each student will receive $2,000 to perform direct service projects comprising 200 hours apiece in a community outreach effort over the next year. | File photo
Each student will receive $2,000 to perform direct service projects comprising 200 hours apiece in a community outreach effort over the next year. | File photo
Eleven outstanding students in social work, public health, occupational therapy, nursing, dentistry, medicine and disability studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago were recently designated as Schweitzer fellows to create service learning programs for underserved Chicagoans.
Each student will receive $2,000 to perform direct service projects comprising 200 hours apiece in a community outreach effort over the next year. Schweitzer Fellows have assisted Chicago’s needy since 1996, focusing on populations such as the uninsured, homeless, returning veterans, immigrants, minorities and the working poor.
Medical student Andrew Florin will support early childhood literacy with an after-school program for low-income Latino families, while College of Medicine student JJ Locquiao plans to expand an existing health care initiative created in 2010 by another Schweitzer Fellow.
Nursing student Wendy Mironov will partner with a grassroots group to allow undocumented immigrants health care access; a second College of Nursing student, Karie Elizabeth Stewart, plans prenatal education for minority mothers.
Dental student Jessica Williams will develop an oral health literacy curriculum at a free medical clinic; College of Dentistry and School of Public Health student Gabija Revis will advance an oral health component for caregivers of medically complex youngsters.
School of Public Health student Karen Aguirre will promote health careers among Latino youth; Jane Addams College of Social Work/School of Public Health student Madison Hammett proposes a support program for incarcerated mothers and their children’s caregivers. Public Health/Social Work student Alyson Moser will help adults become career-ready with an adult literacy and job readiness program.
Occupational therapy student Amy Krischer plans a parent-child initiative for families to escape domestic violence and form healthy attachments; and Alisa Jordan Sheth, a student in disability studies, will work with senior citizens with intellectual disabilities to develop an accessible curriculum for health literacy and aging-related needs.
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