PUBLIC OUTREACH

Each year New Hampshire/Vermont Schweitzer Fellows work in small groups to conduct public outreach activities.  These activities aim to:

• Educate students in health-related fields, professionals, and/or the general public about the nature and seriousness of current, local health disparities and unmet health needs;

• Strengthen existing links among the Schweitzer Fellows Program, community agencies and health professional schools, and site and academic mentors;

• Identify new community organizations and other partners that the Schweitzer Fellows Program may collaborate with in the future.

• Help Fellows develop leadership, organizational, and team building skills useful in future public education activities; and

• Provide Fellows with an experience of collaborative and shared responsibility within a small interdisciplinary group.

2011-2012
UVM:  COM Cares Day
Dartmouth: Headrest Rail Trail Ramble
VLS: Hurricane Irene Relief

2010-2011
UVM: Kickball Tournament Fundraiser to raise funds and awareness of community needs and local service agencies
Dartmouth:  Bowlathon Fundraiser to raise funds and awareness of community needs and local service agencies
VLS:  Service Day with Cover Home Repair

2009-2010
UVM: COM Cares Day
Dartmouth:  Food and Clothing Drive for The Upper Valley Haven
VLS: Food and Clothing Drive for VT Refugee Resettlement Program and Have Justice Will Travel
UNH Law: “Cleantech: What every lawyer needs to know about energy law.”

2008-2009
UVM: COM Cares Day
Dartmouth: Common Good Day
VLS:  Day of Service for VT Food Bank

2007-2008
UVM: COM Cares Day
Dartmouth: Confronting Unmet Health and Social Needs: Our Moral Responsibility
VLS: Day of Community Service at the Red Door Thrift Shop in South Royalton
Pierce Law: Environmental Law: Practice and Experience

2006-2007
UVM:  Schweitzer Week
Dartmouth: Common Good Day
VLS: Community Clean UP Day
Pierce Law: Juvenile Crime in New Hampshire

2005-2006
Pierce Law:What Happens when the Child is Left Behind?
UVM:  Hunger Awareness Week
Dartmouth: Common Good Day
VLS: 10 Years of Public Service in VT: Recognition of the Schweitzer Fellowship at the VT Statehouse

2004-2005
VLS: Community Potluck Dinner and Art Show to raise funds for  proposed Community Center in South Royalton  
UVM: Benefit Auction for refugee scholarships at the Community College of Vermont

2003-2004
VLS: Community Potluck Dinner and Panel Discussion on proposed Community Center in South Royalton  
DMS: Healthcare for Dummies:  Policies, Platforms, and the Presidential Primaries
UVM: Benefit Auction for the Community Health Center Shelter for Homeless and RunawayTeens

2002-2003
VLS: Violence Exploited
DMS: Teen Depression and Suicide Prevention: A Community Discussion
UVM: Evening to Benefit Lund Center’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Outreach Project

2001-2002
VLS: Community Service in your Education and Career
UVM: Heroin in Vermont
DMS: Violence in Adolescence: Student Science Congress

2000-2001
VLS: Governor Howard Dean: Health Care and the Future of Vermont
DMS: Perspectives on ADHD: A Panel Discussion with Community Practitioners
UVM: Caring for Refugees and Immigrants in Our Community: Overcoming Barriers   of Language, Culture, and Traumatic Experience

1999-2000
VLS: The Lawyer as a Public Citizen

1997-1998
UVM: Barriers to Care at the End of Life
DMS: The Media's Impact on Adolescents: A Dialogue with Classrooms, Clinics, Courts, and the Community
VLS: Combating Domestic Violence: A Dialogue Among Doctors, Lawyers, and the   Community

1996-1997
UVM: An Evening of Celebration/Doctors Ought to Care: The Pursuit of Creative Dramatics