Volunteer Opportunity: Health Leads at NYU!

Health Leads at NYU
Seeking Bilingual (Spanish-English) Volunteers

Health Leads, an organization dedicated to breaking the link between poor health and poverty, is seeking new volunteers. Health Leads mobilizes undergraduate students to connect low-income families to the basic resources - such as food, housing, and heating assistance - that they need to be healthy. In 2010, 1,000 Health Leads volunteers helped over 9,000 families nationally. Health Leads is at the forefront of a movement to transform the way healthcare is delivered in this country. We're seeking passionate, committed, bilingual students to join us in this movement by becoming a volunteer with Health Leads at NYU.

What exactly do Health Leads volunteers do? We go into clinics at Bellevue Hospital and Woodhull Medical Center and talk to the low-income families in the waiting room. During these shifts at the hospital, we work with families to identify what social and economic resources they can access. Oftentimes these resources change a family's health and lives dramatically.

Volunteers are required to commit between 5 and 8 hours per week to Health Leads. Every volunteer staffs one three-hour shift at the clinic (9:00/9:30-12:00/12:30, 1:00-4:00). Additionally, volunteers must be able to spend one to three hours a week following up with their clients, researching appropriate referrals, and recording their efforts in the database. Finally, volunteers are required to attend a one-hour Reflection Session each week in the evening. These hour-long meetings are vital to our work: during RS volunteers receive supplemental training, share successes and struggles with one another, and meet professionals like non-profit workers, doctors, social workers, lawyers, and nurses.

To apply, please follow the link to our application packet, which describes in more detail this unique opportunity: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DwHiWAHDPBvged3hazYUv-zOMHFd5o6wNgUpbgtFcG0/edit. Currently Health Leads at NYU is seeking ONLY BILINGUAL STUDENTS, fluent in both Spanish and English. For more information on Health Leads and the application process, attend our Campus Information Sessions between 6:30 and 7:30 on Monday, January 23rd.