Cleaning out your dorm room?  Please support local middle and high school students by donating gently-used clothing, CDs, accessories, jewelry, backpacks, DVDs, laptops, blankets, bedsheets, small electronic items, lamps, and pillows to our event.  The teen center is also looking for couches, sturdy coffee tables, and computers.

Drop items until May 20 (Monday) in a box displaying the Clothing Swap and Shop poster at all three dining halls or Chellis House.

Pickup is also available:  call Jutta at (802) 989-8934, or e-mail her: jutta@addisonteens.com.

Thanks!

Saturday, May 18th:  10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.

For Spanish- and English-speaking community volunteers and Latino farmworker allies

Learn more about:
 Basic interpretation best practices
 Ethical standards of medical interpretation
 Modes of interpretation
 Interpretation and language resources
 State and federal legal requirements for interpretation
 Key cultural dynamics of Mexican, Latin American,
Vermont farmworker, and biomedical cultures
 Influence of immigration concerns in healthcare access
Facilitated through an interactive format integrating opportunities to learn from participants’ experiences, engage in role plays, and encourage networking.

For more Information:
lerlbaum@uvm.edu
“VT Medical Interpretation Boot Camps 2013” on Facebook
Participant application deadline: April 30, 2013
$25-50 Suggested Donation
No one turned away for lack of funds.

Gapforce (www.gapforce.org) is an organization specializing in overseas  volunteering and conservation projects, work placements and internships, lasting from 2 – 16 weeks. Their Head Office is in the UK, and due to growing interest from US students, they are now looking to branch out into America.

As a bit of background – Gapforce is an established provider of structured Graduate and Undergraduate programs overseas.  They offer volunteering placements, expeditions and internships across 5 specialist divisions, but I am including here only the one that would interest pre-meds:

www.Medforce.info – Medical placements in general medicine, nursing, dentistry and physiotherapy, involving outreach and clinical placements for all levels of student.  Placements in Africa, Central America, South America.

The EVENT is Sat., April 6,* 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the UVM campus in Burlington; the deadline to apply is March 15.

For Spanish- and English-speaking community volunteers and Latino farmworker allies

Learn more about:

• Basic interpretation best practices
• Ethical standards of medical interpretation
• Modes of interpretation
• Interpretation and language resources
• State and federal legal requirements for interpretation
• Key cultural dynamics of Mexican, Latin American, Vermont farmworker, and biomedical cultures
• Influence of immigration concerns in healthcare access

Facilitated through an interactive format integrating opportunities to learn from participants’ experiences, engage in role plays, and encourage networking.

*Rain date Sunday, April 7, 10-3

For more Information:

jhhughes@uvm.edu
802-881-7366

“VT Medical Interpretation Boot Camps 2013” on Facebook

$25-50 Suggested Donation—No one turned away for lack of funds.

The Open Door Clinic is seeking Volunteer Medical Interpreters.  Contact Ashley Calkins in EIA/Civic Engagement (jcalkins@middlebury.edu, or (802) 443-3099) for details and an application:  application deadline is March 15.

As a free medical clinic serving uninsured and underinsured low income individuals in Addison County, the Open Door Clinic provides essential medical care to individuals of many backgrounds. Approximately 30% of their patients are Limited English Proficiency (LEP) patients requiring assistance of medical interpreters to facilitate communication and thus insure high quality medical care. Although they have access to telephonic interpretation, they rely most heavily on volunteer medical interpreters available for in-person interpretation at clinics and referral appointments. The Open Door Clinic is located close to campus at Porter Hospital!

Fluent volunteer interpreters (Chinese/ Mandarin/Spanish) needed to support the Addison Central Supervisory Union’s (ACSU) Family Wellness Program (FWP).

While the FWP is interested in all aspects of family health and wellness, emotional-behavioral health is a strong area of focus; work is confidential in nature and may involve working collaboratively with such partnering agencies as the Addison County Parent/Child Center, connecting families to useful supports. Time commitment will vary based on family needs, but should not entail more than one-two hours/week over the course of several weeks. Interested? Contact ACSU Family Wellness Coordinator, Ulti Danforth, udanforth@addisoncentralsu.org, (802) 382-1767.

One spot available for a Middlebury College student to serve as a Community Impact Volunteer, participating in a community grant process as part of an impact team in the area of Health (Education and Financial Stability teams are full). This is a wonderful opportunity to learn about the operations of local medical- & health-related agencies, review grants, and build relationships with local community members. Deadline to sign-up is Monday, January 21.

Volunteers are ambassadors for United Way of Addison County and read each grant application in their assigned impact area (Health), develop a list of questions to discuss at site visits, visit agencies, participate in the team scoring process and recommend a funding amount for the board of directors to approve. Evaluation may include drafting suggestions for improved grant presentation, performance or business practices.

Orientation/training is provided (approx. 2 hours), each grant takes approximately 1 hour to read, site visit planning sessions generally are two 2 hour meetings, each site visit is approximately 1 to 1 ½ hours, evaluation and recommendation process usually takes two 2 hour meetings as well. The work takes place from approximately January 14th through the last week of March (United Way can accommodate your absence over February Break and Spring Break). Volunteers are expected to be interested in the community, non-profit sector, applying agencies and the United Way grant process. Confidentiality and professionalism are musts. Enthusiasm, curiosity, and a sense of humor are valued highly!

Interested students should contact United Way of Addison County Executive Director Kate McGowan (kmcgowan@middlebury.edu) or Community Engagement Coordinator Ashley Calkins, jcalkins@middlebury.edu, by Monday, January 21 for more details.

From Civic Engagement:

Join community members for a Thanksgiving Dinner!

November 22, 2012 12:30 p.m.

Location: VFW, 530 Exchange Street

Volunteer to help prepare the dinner on Thursday (11/22) at 11:00 a.m. and stay to eat at the meal with community members at 12:30 p.m.

Volunteers are also needed to help prepare the dinner on Wednesday 11/21 at 5:00 p.m. and to play music during the dinner on Thursday.

Interested? Contact Craig at cbingham@sover.net <mailto:cbingham@sover.net> or (802) 989-5775

If you need transportation to volunteer, contact Ashley Calkins, jcalkins@middlebury.edu <mailto:jcalkins@middlebury.edu> by November 19th.
Support Addison County Families in Need of Housing: Join the Volunteer Staff of the Charter House Winter Shelter
The Charter House Winter Shelter <http://www.mccc-vt.org/our-programs> opened November 1st and is home to four adults and six children. There is a critical need for more volunteers to help staff the facility 24/7, including over Thanksgiving Break. Working in pairs, volunteers typically serve 3-4 hour shifts at times of their choosing. The Charter House is within walking distance from campus!
To volunteer over Thanksgiving Break (and beyond!):

1) Fill out and submit the volunteer form Charter House Volunteer Application <http://sites.middlebury.edu/eiablog/files/2012/10/Charter-House-Volunteer-Application.doc>

2) Attend a volunteer training. Training takes about 90 minutes. Volunteers must attend a training session before their first volunteer shift.  Scheduled training sessions for new volunteers took place Monday and Tuesday this week: to learn more and to request alternative training times, please contact Adam Schiff ’15 (aschiff@middlebury.edu ) or Anoushka Sinha ’13 (asinha@middlebury.edu  ).

Ashley Calkins ‘06
Community Engagement Coordinator
Center for Education in Action: Careers, Fellowships, Civic Engagement
Middlebury College  |   Middlebury, VT 05753
802.443.3099  |  go.middlebury.edu/eia

Want to help those in need in the Middlebury community this January?

Winter Term ’13 Internship: Middlebury Community Care Coalition Charter House Emergency Winter Shelter Intern

Application deadline: Friday, November 2, 2012

Middlebury Community Care Coalition is a volunteer-based non-profit that provides emergency housing and food to those in Addison County needing assistance. In 2011, MCCC provided emergency housing to 44 people through the Charter House Emergency Winter Shelter and Pleasant Street Transitional Housing. Interns will also gain an in-depth understanding of how the Middlebury Community Care Coalition and the broader community support the transition of homeless families to stable housing. Please visit go/internships and click on “Winter Term” for information on receiving course credit for this internship.

AIDE Abroad is a nonprofit organization with a background of over 19 years of experience operating international exchange programs that have impacted the lives of more than 5,000 people.  AIDE Abroad offers a wide range of internship, volunteer, teach, or work programs.  Some of the programs currently advertised are:

Guatemala—Community Medical Assistant
Peru—Community Clinic Medical Assistant
Costa Rica—Public Health Medical Assistant
Argentina—Children’s Hospital Patient Services

There are more, as well:  here’s a link:  http://aideabroad.org/tag/medical/