Week One South Chicago: Asia Speaks on Education
From a high school student in my summer program, on the value of stories. http://www.summerservicepartnership.com
Week One South Chicago: Salvador speaks
Today I enjoyed my day with the youth of New Sullivan Elementary school in south Chicago. We created a miniature bond and helped each other critically think through the games and team building exercise’s. We also celebrated Salvador’s “Welcoming into Becoming a Citizen” and talked about how we felt as a whole about the activities…
Week One Team South Chicago: Ashele Speaks
This week was full of building new relationships with the high school students and the other mentors as we explored South Chicago. The first day of the week our group spent the time making life maps and playing name games to get to know each other. I was slightly anxious before meeting the students…
Welcome to Summer Service Partnership 2014!
For the summer, I’ll be hanging out over at http://www.summerservicepartnership.com This is the blog of the summer program that I direct, with the amazing help of Cathryn Smeyers, program manager extraordinaire. With the Summer Service Partnership, 21 medical, professional, college and high school students come together to learn about the social determinants of health, map…
YogaCare
It’s time to celebrate all things yoga, and YogaCare! Three years ago, yoga instructor Greg Van Hyfte was a student in the Social Services Administration school at the University of Chicago, and a Schweitzer Fellow. His project was to bring weekly yoga classes to Chicago Family Health Center, where I work as a family physician.…
Reuniting, 15 Year Style
Over Memorial Day weekend, I attended my 15 year college reunion. Fifteen years, folks. People married soon out of college already have children who are full fledged independent beings with personalities. It was fun to meet these young people, some of them less than a decade away from college themselves. Many of my college friends…
Prevention Not Prescription 