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FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Over
100 New UC Public Health Graduate Students to Spend Day Volunteering at
Sites Throughout Berkeley
Mayor
Bates and UC Public Health Dean Shortell to kick-off the day of community
service with event at 9 a.m. on Friday, August 26th at
Berkeley’s Old City Hall Berkeley,
CA – In a major new joint effort to bring public health students into
the Berkeley community, Mayor Tom Bates and UC Berkeley School of Public
Health Dean Stephen Shortell are launching the first annual Volunteer
Mobilization Day for all incoming Public Health graduate students.
After a brief kick-off event, the 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 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 be deployed to
pre-approved sites to perform community service until 3:00 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).
WHO:
Mayor Tom Bates, UC Public Health Dean Stephen Shortell, over 100
Public Health graduate students WHAT: Kick-off
of Volunteer Mobilization Day WHERE: Berkeley’s Old City
Hall WHEN: Friday,
August 26 at 9 a.m. |
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