HEALTH EDUCATION & COMMUNITY OUTREACH
Bridge Peer Counseling Center
The Bridge is a group of student counselors providing free, confidential, 24-hour peer counseling services to the Stanford student community. As peer counselors, we are here to listen, to explore feelings or just to talk. Our goal is to help people develop their own solutions to problems or uncertainties they may be dealing with. All our services are completely free and confidential.
Camp Kesem
Camp Kesem is a week-long, overnight summer camp for children whose parents have cancer, are in remission from cancer, or have died from cancer. At Camp Kesem, children participate in camp activities and have the chance to just be a kid for a week, surrounded by peers who can relate to what it's like to have a parent with cancer. With a 2:1 camper-to-counselor ratio, Camp Kesem is a very supportive community where relationships are built that last for years to come.
Colleges Against Cancer
Colleges Against Cancer is a voluntary student organization dedicated to fighting cancer through awareness, advocacy, service, and research. At Stanford University, we carry out campaigns in all four of the American Cancer Society’s strategic directions: Mission Delivery, Survivorship, Advocacy, and Relay for Life.
The goal of ODE is to inform the community about how organ donation works and why it is important, and to encourage discussion among those who had not previously considered organ donation. They provide opportunities to shadow transplant surgeons, volunteer with the California Transplant Donor Network, and teach basic anatomy lessons to local middle school students.
Relay For Life
Relay For Life is the American Cancer Society's 24-hour event fundraiser. Relay celebrates the lives of those who have battled cancer, remembers loved ones lost to the disease, and empowers the community to fight back. Relay for Life at Stanford is a division of Stanford Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) and offers many wonderful volunteer opportunities. For more information, please contact the Relay For Life Event Chair, Kate McGrath, at knmcgrath@stanford.edu.
Science in Service
Science in Service connects Stanford students to youth in our neighboring communities through science mentorship and after-school science clubs, providing students a unique opportunity to learn about and participate in science outreach. Stanford participants receive training in key techniques for teaching science through mentorship. Trained students then serve as science mentors to children in after-school programs in East Palo Alto, Menlo Park, and Redwood City, with ongoing support from the Science in Service staff. The lessons and activities that we bring to the community kids are centered on a different science or engineering theme each quarter and include science topics of interest to premeds.
Stanford ESP & Splash!
Diverse people at different stages of their lives discover diverse muses and so we all have our special sources of inspiration, creativity and motivation. The mission of the Stanford ESP community is to reach out, to enthuse other young eager minds, and share our muses and sources of joy and inspiration with people around us. Our current agenda centers around sharing our knowledge and creativity with high school students, through conducting extensive academic and non-academic classes. We are just at the starting phase of Stanford ESP, and with your support we hope to expand and reach out to more people, students and teachers alike.
Stanford Project on Hunger (SPOON)
Stanford Project on Hunger (SPOON) takes as its mission the widespread reduction of food waste on the Stanford University campus. Unused food leftovers from dining halls, row houses, the faculty club, and special events are channeled to local organizations to meet the hunger needs of community members. SPOON works in addition to spread campus awareness of hunger and homelessness issues with the overall goals of reducing waste and alleviating hunger.
Stanford School of Medicine, Office of Community Health
The Office of Community Health is the home in the School of Medicine for informed, committed, and sustained community engagement in local health issues. We are developing an innovative national model to train future leaders in community health, disseminate community health scholarship, and enhance local health via community-academic partnerships.
Students 4 Healthy Youth
The waxing obesity epidemic in the United States is extremely detrimental to underserved populations, where access to resources and health education are limited by economic status. Student for Healthy Youth is a community service organization intended to address the issue of childhood obesity in the local community. Specifically, we plan to bring about change in habits through student-taught units on fitness and nutrition geared towards students at local elementary schools. The units themselves will focus on topics like choosing meals, understanding nutrition, understanding risk factors for obesity, and exercising regularly.
United Students for Veterans' Health
USVH is the largest volunteer organization on campus. Students spend time with veterans with psychiatric disorders at the Menlo Park VA Hospital.