This website provides photos of our students engaged in a number of our USF Health Service Corps events between January 2011-June 30, 2011. In looking through these photos, you will notice both the interdisciplinary, and multifaceted nature of these events, with students learning and serving together, in a number of capacities, at the different service events. If you are a USF Health student and would like to participate in service activities, you can go to this website http://health.usf.edu/ahec/USFHealthServicesCorps/hscevents.htm or our calendar at http://my.calendars.net/servicecorps to find out about great service events for the current semester!
And now, please enjoy the photo gallery!
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February Valentines Day Events!Each year, our Service Corps organizes festive parties for community members with a Valentines Day theme. this year, we held three special parties:
An arts and crafts party for the children at The Spring;
A Valentines Day Dessert Party for the patients and their caregivers residing at the American Cancer Society Benjamin Mendick Hope lodge on campus, as pictured below;
and a party for the seniors at the Weinberg Village!
See complete photo album at: Love a Senior Day 2011.
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Interdisciplinary Medical Science students also participated as interpreters
See photo album at: Tampa Bay Downs Health Fair February 2011.
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On March 3rd, a number of public health, nursing, and medical students contributed to the Just Kids Holiday of Hope Party at
See photo album at: Just Kids Holiday of Hope Party.
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The next day, March 4th, another group of enthusiastic students participated in the Fitness and Fun Picnic for our friends with the Farmworkers Self Help
Teen Dream Group at USF
See photo album at: FSH Teen Dream Club Picnic.
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The theme for National Public Health Week 2001 was “Safety is No Accident: Live Injury-free”. Our students contributed to a number of community service activities with a safety theme, including teaching about injury prevention in the public schools, bike rodeo and safety education events at schools, and even safe painting! Below are some of our photos and links to the associated web albums.
See photo album at: Passport to Safety Bike rodeo
See photo album at:
Passport to Safety Health Awareness and Safety Fair at
(April 9th, in collaboration with Safe Kids Tampa/St. Joseph’s Children’s
See photo album at: Paint Your Heart Out Tampa
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As another community service component of National Public Health Week, we held our second annual Give Life Day on April 8th, whereby people donated blood at the Florida Blood Services Van, registered with the National Marrow Donor program and Donate Life
See photo album at: Give Life Day 2011.
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Palmetto Bay Health Fiesta, April 16th
Our medical, nursing and public health students contributed to this fun family orientated health fair, through blood sugar and blood cholesterol screenings, vision screenings,and safety education and fitness games for children!
See photo album at: Palmetto Bay Health Fiesta.
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March for Babies Walk on April 30th
This year, we had a record number of students, faculty and staff participants in our USF Health Service Corps team, and we raised over $2500 for the March of Dimes.
See photo album at: March for Babies Walk 2011.
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San Jose Mission Fitness and Fun Day on May 22nd
An energetic group of USF Health Service Corps volunteers made a tremendous difference at the San José Mission Clinic in Dover, by painting the Catholic Mobile Medical Services clinic, reading to the children, distributing clothing to the families and playing sports with the kids!
See photo album at: San Jose Mission May 2011 .
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Musical Dessert Party at Hope Lodge (Guitars and Goodies) on June 6th
Our USF Health Service Corps volunteers prepared and served deserts and mingled with
the Hope Lodge residents and a medical student provided the musical entertainment!
See photo album at Hope Lodge - Guitars and Goodies.
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June 11th, Multicultural Health Fair at
Our medical and nursing students contributed to health screenings for adults and our public health students led the Passport to Safety activities for kids.
See photo album at: Multicultural Health Fair .
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Adventures into Safety Events
In June, our USF Health students contributed to four different community safety events, in collaboration with Safe Kids Tampa/St. Joseph’s Children’s
See photo albums at: North Tampa Adventures into Safety ,
Town and Country Adventures into Safety, and
Glazer Children's Museum Summer Safety Fair .
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Baking Bread with Seniors & Students, June 15th
And finally, for a creative new project, our USF Health students assisted seniors at
See photo album at Seniors and Students Making Challah.
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Teaching in the Schools!
Did you know? Between January through June
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And finally, do you have some new ideas for new service projects? Then feel free to contact the Service Corps Coordinator, Ellen Kent, MPH, CPH, at ekent@health.usf.edu and she will be happy to work with you !