LA Community Engagement - DRAFT
Improving health across our city
The UCLA global health community engagement program offers medical students the opportunity to provide advocacy and support for resource deprived communities in Los Angeles by partnering with local organizations. Specifically, our mission is to promote health equity, literacy, and accessibility among immigrants, refugees, asylees, housing insecure, and low-income individuals throughout Los Angeles.
Our current partners are Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, The People Concern (TPC), and the Los Angeles Human Rights Initiative (LAHRI). Our current projects include sandwich making, homeless outreach, special events volunteering, and leading various workshops such as those focused on nutrition, health care access and literacy, healthy living, and mental health.
Our leadership team includes 4-5 medical students of all classes with the goal to spark long term relationships with local community organizations.
Esperanza
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project is a project of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles. Over the past 15 years, the organization has become one of the leading immigration-focused public interest organizations in the country.
The People Concern
The People Concern is a leading provider of, and advocate for, evidence-based solutions to the multi-faceted challenges inherent in homelessness and domestic violence. The People Concern provides a fully integrated system of care—including outreach, interim housing, mental and medical health care.
LA Human Rights Initiative
The LA Human Rights Initiative is a student-run, faculty-supervised organization at UCLA. LAHRI runs an Asylum Clinic that provides probono forensic evaluations to asylum seekers and other immigrants and creates opportunities for experiential learning.