Puentes de Salud Spring 2014 Education/Wellness Program Volunteers

Posted by on December 16, 2013

Puentes de Salud Spring 2014 Education/Wellness Program Volunteers

Hello friends,

We are asking our supporting school and university departments to forward the following message to your student listservs.

For those departments/faculty who offer class credit/hours, community/field service, independent studies, or internships for community involvement and would like to make Puentes de Salud a field site for your students please contact Esther Morales at [email protected]

Please contact us with any questions. Thank you so much for your continued support of Puentes de Salud.

Saludos!

Puentes team

We are excited to announce that we are accepting volunteers for the Puentes Hacia el Futuro, Puentes de Salud’s education and wellness programs, for Spring Semester 2014.

The mission of Puentes de Salud is to improve the health and wellness of the Latino community in South Philly by providing healthcare as well as addressing the social factors that influence long-term health outcomes, such as education, literacy, and socioeconomic status.  The Puentes Hacia el Futuro program is one of the Puentes social services that addresses these fundamental issues by providing tutoring and literacy support, as well as art, culture, and health education for a group of 60 children three days per week.

Puentes de Salud, our parent organization, has partnered with Philadelphia’s Mexican immigrant community over the past seven years to provide low cost, culturally and linguistically accessible, sustainable health care. We recognize that education and health needs are connected and strive to provide an interdisciplinary approach to improving community wellness.

Volunteering

Tutoring sessions are held 3:30 – 5:15 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays February 3, 2014 – May 8, 2014. Sessions are held at Southwark School at 1835 S. 9th St in Philadelphia. We ask that volunteers sign up for at least one session per week, preferably the same days each week. Volunteers do not need to speak Spanish to participate.

To get started with becoming a volunteer or to receive our updates, we ask that you please fill out an application on our website.  https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1gy0Hxbx8l7USxXsSrSkSDhlNfzRruH1YoHQNLOD8vGw/viewform

Feel free to contact us with any questions. We hope to see you at Puentes soon!