2005
Volunteer Mobilization
Seventy new public health graduate students spend day volunteering at sites throughout Berkeley
In a major new joint effort to bring public health students into the Berkeley community, Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates and UC Berkeley School of Public Health Dean Stephen Shortell are launching the first annual Volunteer Mobilization Day for incoming public health graduate students on Friday, August 26. After a brief kick-off event at 9 a.m., 70 students will be deployed to childcare, homeless, and public health sites throughout Berkeley for a day of service.
"This is an exciting opportunity for our students to be directly engaged with the Berkeley community. Public health embraces all aspects of the community, and we expect that this initial contact will lead to ongoing relationships that benefit everyone," said Dean Shortell.
"I am thrilled to welcome these public health students to Berkeley and put them right to work in our community," said Mayor Bates. "This is exactly the type of cooperation that we envisioned as part of the new UC-City partnership. I believe it will be a model for other departments to follow."
Following the kick-off event, organized teams of volunteers will then proceed to preapproved sites to perform community service until 3 p.m. Volunteer sites include Berkeley Food and Housing Project, Options Recovery Services, Bahia School-Age Program, City of Berkeley Environmental Health, Center for the Infant Deaf, Lifelong Medical Care, Inc., Women's Daytime Drop-in Center, Peoples Park, Fred Finch Youth Center's Homeless Youth Collaborative, and Berkeley Youth Alternatives (BYA).
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