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Project HEALTH's spring semester recruits toured the labyrinthine BMC...
Project HEALTH was founded only three years ago, but its programs currently involve over 150 Harvard students who directly serve BMC pediatric patients. All of the programs uniquely combine direct health care service and local public policy advocacy and activism...
...current director Rebecca Onie '96 led them past overworked nurses, doctors, public health advocates and social workers. The tour provides necessary training for these recruits, before they are faced with the daunting task of staffing the Family Help Desk--one of nine Project HEALTH programs run out of BMC...
Many of the patients need far more than an occasional vaccination or well-baby visit. In addition to critically ill children, BMC's patients desperately seek daily nutrition and hygiene education, information on vocational training, education, child-care, fuel assistance and food pantries...
...transforms the help desk volunteers, according to campus co-coordinator Tiger E. Edwards '00. Although many of the students cannot legally drink or rent a car and some have yet to vote in a presidential election, they are specialists in the eyes of the patients as well as the BMC staff...