For Her: Community Outreach Health Education
| Responder | Ashley Mai |
| Project Title | For Her: Community Outreach Health Education |
| Start Date | 8/31/22 |
| End Date | 1/6/23 |
| Project Location: City | San Antonio |
| Project Location: County | Bexar |
| Other Student Leaders | Ashley Mai, MS 3
Sofia Russo, MS 3 Paige Graves, MS 3 |
| Community Partner Organization | For Her |
| CSL Mentor – Name | Judianne Kellaway |
| Other Mentors | |
| Is this project interprofessional? | No |
| Professions Represented | Medicine |
| Project Category | Education |
| Project Activities | Health Education,Health Screenings |
| Is this project conducted as part of a student organization? | No |
| Student Organization Name | |
| Is this project done as part of an academic course (required OR elective)? | No |
| Course Name | N/A |
| Community Partner Name | Taryn Tipton |
| Community Partner Job Title | Program Director |
| Total Number of Students on Project Team | 4 |
| Number of Community Beneficiaries | 20 |
| Total Number of Other Faculty/Staff | 0 |
| Number of Other Community Volunteers | 0 |
| Mentor Hours | 3 |
| Student Leader Hours | 60 |
| Total Number of Student Hours | 130 |
| Semester Service Hours | 130 |
| What type of funding did you use to conduct this project? | CSL Mini or Midi grant from the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics |
| Mini/Midi Grant Amount Awarded | $555 |
| Did you do this project as part of Federal Work Study from the Office for Financial Aid? | No |
| Did you receive In-Kind Donations for this project? | No |
| Amount of In-Kind Donation $ | N/A |
| CSL Abstract | Final CSL Abstract For Her_ Community Outreach Health Education.pdf |
| CSL Poster | CSL Poster.pdf |
| Challenges | One of the challenges that we faced was getting people to fill out pre and post surveys. A few women did not want to fill out the surveys because of test-taking anxiety and others didn’t want to put down answers because they didn’t want to be wrong. Although we tried our best to assuage their apprehensions, we were not able to get 100% completion of surveys. |
| Lessons Learned | One of the lessons that we learned was the power of working with smaller groups. We often think about making big changes on the population level- the more people we reach the better! However, we found that this was not the case. Even though our sample size was small, we were able to dramatically increase their knowledge about commonly diagnosed diseases and preventive healthcare. They were able to ask personalized questions that didn’t need to be filtered and received honest answers that filled in individual gaps of knowledge. |
| Success Story | One woman during our round table session had particular anxiety about seeing doctors. Her past experience in healthcare traumatized her and unfortunately, prevents her from being her true self as the patient. She came with many questions that she felt she couldn’t ask physicians for fear of looking dumb given the perceived power dynamic. However, at our round table discussion, she asked many questions, unabashed because she was in a safe space, surrounded by women she trusted. We felt honored that she openly trusted us strangers and were glad that she felt empowered to ask those questions. |
| Conferences Where You Presented Project | Anna Tomotaki, Ashley Mai, Sofia Russo, Paige Graves. For Her: Community Outreach Health Education poster presentation at: American Medical Women’s Association 108th Annual Meeting; March 24, 2023; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Publications of your Project | N/A |