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Students for a Healthier Community

If you don’t serve your community, who will?. Students for a Healthier Community. Our purpose: . To provide awareness to UAB undergraduates about local non-for-profits that improve the health of the under-served in Birmingham. Provide volunteering with these organizations

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Students for a Healthier Community

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  1. If you don’t serve your community, who will? Students for a Healthier Community

  2. Our purpose: • To provide awareness to UAB undergraduates about local non-for-profits that improve the health of the under-served in Birmingham. • Provide volunteering with these organizations • Provide an accessible organization that ANY major or GPA can join, we usually provide carpooling, we just need those who are passionate about serving others!

  3. About us • We were founded in the Spring of 2010, and became active the Fall of 2010. • We work with long-standing initiatives, as well as have random volunteering events through the semester with other organizations. • We have bi-weekly meetings with various non-for-profits as the speakers.

  4. Volunteering, Long-standing • We work with: • Cahaba Valley Healthcare • P.E.E.R. Inc’s 5th grade homework lab in East Lake • First Light Women’s Homeless Shelter.

  5. Cahaba Valley Healthcare • We participate in their free health screenings that travel around Birmingham. They are for those without insurance. • We usually help with the nutrition table for children; however if you have a specific interest in optometry or dentistry you can participate in those screenings there! • Usually at 2 pm on every other Sunday. We carpool!

  6. 5th Grade Tutoring Lab • This is with PEER Inc., a non-for-profit at East Lake United Methodist Church. • We go every Monday and Wednesday from 3-5 PM. Carpooling is at 2:45 in the Blazer Hall Circle. • You have to be trained before volunteering, (we can set that up!) • We tutor for the first hour, then do exercises or other health-related activities for the second hour (gardening, art, etc.) • Also participate in Farmer’s Market. • If interested in leading a dance class, let us know! • Contact sallydover@gmail.com to set up.

  7. First Light Women’s Homeless Shelter • We volunteer every 2nd Saturday of the month at 3:00 PM. • Carpooling at 2:45 in the Blazer Hall Parking Lot. • Each month we will have a themed activity for the ladies. We are open to suggestions! • No training required. • They are very excited to have us, and need the extra social interaction.

  8. Fundraising • This semester, our fundraiser is to collect used, gently worn or new toys for Cahaba Valley Healthcare. • They have a box of toys that children play with while their parents participate in the screening; however, these are in desperate need of being replaced. • Bring these toys to any meeting or volunteer event!

  9. Now what to do? • If you are interested in becoming a member, you will need to fill out a membership form, and provide a one-time $10 due. • We suggest that you volunteer ten hours per semester to remain in good standing. • If you are volunteering with other organizations that promote our purpose as well, let us know and we can count it toward your hours.

  10. Keep updated with us! • Make sure you sign in. Using that we will add you to our e-mailing list. • Visit shc.yolasite.com to keep up with upcoming events. • Visit our FaceBook page or our page on BSync as well!

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