Project
For our GVNSA community service project my class wanted to reach a pediatric population that was often in dire need of care and services. We put our heads together and decided that the population that was speaking to our hearts were the foster children of the Des Moines area. Foster children often get taken out of their homes and must move quickly with only a few supplies. The focus of the project was creating ‘go packs’ for these children or quick overnight bags that they could take with them in a hurry. The ‘go packs’ contained necessary supplies such as, toothbrushes, clothes, small toys, blankets, and pamphlets about vaccinations. With the help of the community and the student body we hoped to raise money and supplies for over 100 foster children in the Des Moines area going through the Department of Human Services. With all of us working together it didn’t take long to come up with a game plan of how we wanted to go about successfully completely this project. We divided the project between clinical groups and each group had a different age range. Monday’s clinical group had school-aged children, Tuesday’s clinical group had high school, and Wednesday’s clinical group …show more content…
It was a fun way to work as a team and accomplish a much-needed task in the community. This project bettered the lives of children in the Des Moines area that do not have much which, in return is more rewarding than a lot of accomplishments in life. Through this project I learned how to conduct a community service project if I wanted to one in the future. Simple delegation and time management is all that is needed to make a project like this successful. Knowing that we helped a small population with a small class, I can only imagine how many children a group at a hospital could help if they all worked
For our GVNSA community service project my class wanted to reach a pediatric population that was often in dire need of care and services. We put our heads together and decided that the population that was speaking to our hearts were the foster children of the Des Moines area. Foster children often get taken out of their homes and must move quickly with only a few supplies. The focus of the project was creating ‘go packs’ for these children or quick overnight bags that they could take with them in a hurry. The ‘go packs’ contained necessary supplies such as, toothbrushes, clothes, small toys, blankets, and pamphlets about vaccinations. With the help of the community and the student body we hoped to raise money and supplies for over 100 foster children in the Des Moines area going through the Department of Human Services. With all of us working together it didn’t take long to come up with a game plan of how we wanted to go about successfully completely this project. We divided the project between clinical groups and each group had a different age range. Monday’s clinical group had school-aged children, Tuesday’s clinical group had high school, and Wednesday’s clinical group …show more content…
It was a fun way to work as a team and accomplish a much-needed task in the community. This project bettered the lives of children in the Des Moines area that do not have much which, in return is more rewarding than a lot of accomplishments in life. Through this project I learned how to conduct a community service project if I wanted to one in the future. Simple delegation and time management is all that is needed to make a project like this successful. Knowing that we helped a small population with a small class, I can only imagine how many children a group at a hospital could help if they all worked