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 Ujima was an after-school enrichment program run by Project HEALTH volunteers at Harlem Hospital. Ujima sought to provide a fun, nurturing, loving, supportive and positive experience for youth, primarily adolescents, infected and affected by HIV, offering each participant the educational and emotional support necessary to reach his or her true potential. Volunteers provided participants with mentoring, homework help, peer group activities, and the opportunity to develop life and social skills in a safe group setting.  Past activities included projects such as murals, filmmaking, and cultural activities such as trips to the Natural History Museum and the Harlem Dance Troupe.
 ==Organization==
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 * Spring TIDES: Shriji Patel (CC '06), Josephine Kim (CC '06), Neeti Doshi (CC '07)
 * Spring Asthma Swim: Cindy Parra (CC '07), Joe Lazar (CC '07), Gavin Kuangparichat (SEAS '07), Jessica Weston (CC '06)

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 Project Health at Columbia was founded in 1999. Project Health historically ran one help desk and five youth programs--HCRC/FHD, UJIMA, STRIVE, FitNut, Asthma Swim, and TIDES. In spring 2008, Project Health National restructured to focus only on the Family Help Desk programs. Most former youth programs were transitioned to other nonprofits and independent Community Impact recognition. As of 2010, Columbia Project Health runs three Family Help Desks: Harlem OB/GYN, Harlem Pediatrics and Columbia Presbyterian Washington Heights Family Clinic.
-===FHD Harlem===
+===FHD Harlem (Pediatrics)===
-Nationally, Project Health’s 22 Family Help Desks are located in pediatric outpatient, adolescent, and prenatal clinics, newborn nurseries, pediatric emergency rooms, health department clinics, and federally qualified health centers. They reach over 4,000 families annually. FHD volunteers recognize that the health of families is not only linked to access to medicine, but also social and economic barriers. Nutrition, employment, childcare, education, housing conditions, etc. all affect the health outcomes of families--a child with asthma cannot stay healthy even with medication if he/she does not have proper meals because his/her parents are unemployed and they live in an apartment with mold and peeling paint. As Harvard FHD alumna Mia Lozada, now a University of Chicago medical student, observed: “My classmates think you write a prescription, and you’re done. I ask, can the patient read the prescription? Does she have health insurance to fill it? Does she need transportation to the pharmacy? Does she have food at home to take with the prescription?” [http://www.projecthealth.org/impact-volunteers]
+Nationally, Project Health’s 22 Family Help Desks (as of 2009) are located in pediatric outpatient, adolescent, and prenatal clinics, newborn nurseries, pediatric emergency rooms, health department clinics, and federally qualified health centers. They reach over 4,000 families annually. FHD volunteers recognize that the health of families is not only linked to access to medicine, but also social and economic barriers. Nutrition, employment, childcare, education, housing conditions, etc. all affect the health outcomes of families--a child with asthma cannot stay healthy even with medication if he/she does not have proper meals because his/her parents are unemployed and they live in an apartment with mold and peeling paint. As Harvard FHD alumna Mia Lozada, now a University of Chicago medical student, observed: “My classmates think you write a prescription, and you’re done. I ask, can the patient read the prescription? Does she have health insurance to fill it? Does she need transportation to the pharmacy? Does she have food at home to take with the prescription?” [http://www.projecthealth.org/impact-volunteers]
 The [[Harlem]] Community Resource Center (HCRC), was the first program created at Columbia in [[1999]] and is the flagship program of Project Health at Columbia. In [[2007]], the HCRC was renamed The Family Help Desk at Harlem Hospital to match the names of sister programs at other sites. The catchment area of FHD Harlem is primarily Harlem and the [[Bronx]] with a large African-American population, Hispanic population, and many French-speaking Caribbean and West African immigrants.
-The FHD operates in the pediatrics clinic in the Ron Brown Pavilion of Harlem Hospital on 135th and Lenox. After distributing flyers and explaining the function of the desk to patients in the clinic waiting room, patients approach the desk and volunteer fill out an intake form to gather personal information, contact information, family composition, and the psychosocial needs of the patient. After completing the intake form, the volunteer will connect or give referrals to the client for resources including, but not limited to: food stamps, food pantries, school meals, childcare, afterschool care, summer camps, GED/ESL classes, legal assistance, cash assistance and public benefits, healthcare, job training, job placement, housing advocacy, and housing search. This information is communicated to the patient on-site, and through extensive follow-up phone calls until the patient's needs are met. Additionally, FHD volunteers also receive referrals from clinic physicians, nurses, social workers, and even outside community organizations. [http://www.fhdharlem.blogspot.com FHD Harlem Blog]
+The FHD operates in the Pediatrics Clinic in the Ron Brown Pavilion of Harlem Hospital on 135th and Lenox. After distributing flyers and explaining the function of the desk to patients in the clinic waiting room, patients approach the desk and volunteer fill out an intake form to gather personal information, contact information, family composition, and the psychosocial needs of the patient. After completing the intake form, the volunteer will connect or give referrals to the client for resources including, but not limited to: food stamps, food pantries, school meals, childcare, afterschool care, summer camps, GED/ESL classes, legal assistance, cash assistance and public benefits, healthcare, job training, job placement, housing advocacy, and housing search. This information is communicated to the patient on-site, and through extensive follow-up phone calls until the patient's needs are met. Additionally, FHD volunteers also receive referrals from clinic physicians, nurses, social workers, and even outside community organizations. [http://www.fhdharlem.blogspot.com FHD Harlem Blog]
 [[Image:Fhd_desk.jpg|250px|thumb| Volunteers on shift at Harlem Hospital in 2008.]]
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 Volunteers flyer both the pediatrics and adult clinics in the Health Center to attract cases, as well as receiving referrals from physicians and social workers. Volunteers cover a similar range of issues, but urgent cases involving housing, domestic violence, food stamps, legal assistance, etc. are referred to or worked on in collaboration with social workers.
 ===STRIVE===

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 ==Awards and Recognition==
-At the April 23, 2009 Community Impact Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, Project HEALTH received Columbia University's highest honor for community service organizations, the Programming Excellence Award, "awarded to the Community Impact program that has best fulfilled the Community Impact and its own mission." Overall, Project HEALTH was a finalist for seven awards spanning program, coordinator, and volunteer categories.
+At the April 23, 2009 Community Impact Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, Project HEALTH received Columbia University's highest honor for community service student organizations, the CI Programming Excellence Award, "awarded to the Community Impact program that has best fulfilled the Community Impact and its own mission." Overall, Project HEALTH was a finalist for seven awards spanning program, coordinator, and volunteer categories.
 On May 5, 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama gave the opening remarks at the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Among other service organizations, she praised Project HEALTH: "Rebecca Onie is a social entrepreneur who founded Project Health to help break the link between poverty and poor health. I remember meeting Rebecca when I was at the University of Chicago and I was very impressed with her. Rebecca organizes college students to staff Help Desks in urban medical centers, universities and community centers. Students then connect low-income families to other critical community and government resources such as housing vouchers, supplemental nutrition assistance, and educational support. This year, 600 college volunteers will dedicate 100,000 hours to connect over 15,000 low-income children and adults to the resources they need to be healthy." [http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/05/michelle_obama_12.html] [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/What-Is-the-Social-Innovation-Fund/]

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 ==Awards and Recognition==
-At the April 23, 2009 Community Impact Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, Project HEALTH received the prestigious Programming Excellence Award, "awarded to the Community Impact program that has best fulfilled the Community Impact and its own mission." Overall, Project HEALTH was a finalist for seven awards spanning program, coordinator, and volunteer categories.
+At the April 23, 2009 Community Impact Volunteer Appreciation Dinner, Project HEALTH received Columbia University's highest honor for community service organizations, the Programming Excellence Award, "awarded to the Community Impact program that has best fulfilled the Community Impact and its own mission." Overall, Project HEALTH was a finalist for seven awards spanning program, coordinator, and volunteer categories.
 On May 5, 2009, First Lady Michelle Obama gave the opening remarks at the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Among other service organizations, she praised Project HEALTH: "Rebecca Onie is a social entrepreneur who founded Project Health to help break the link between poverty and poor health. I remember meeting Rebecca when I was at the University of Chicago and I was very impressed with her. Rebecca organizes college students to staff Help Desks in urban medical centers, universities and community centers. Students then connect low-income families to other critical community and government resources such as housing vouchers, supplemental nutrition assistance, and educational support. This year, 600 college volunteers will dedicate 100,000 hours to connect over 15,000 low-income children and adults to the resources they need to be healthy." [http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2009/05/michelle_obama_12.html] [http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/What-Is-the-Social-Innovation-Fund/]
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 In 2009, Project HEALTH received a grant from Oprah's Angel Network. The website calls Project HEALTH a "prescription for change" and notes: "Project HEALTH currently recruits on 10 university campuses in New York City, Boston, Chicago, Providence and Baltimore. The recruitment and training process is rigorous—in past years, only 10 percent of the applicants were accepted. Last year 600 students committed to a minimum of six hours of service a week for one year, with many working far more than the minimum. Project HEALTH taps college students for several reasons. Besides being a readily available workforce, they bring technical expertise and tenacity to tracking down information for families—whether it’s as simple as Googling directions to a food bank or navigating a family through a bureaucratic maze of paperwork to apply for food stamps." [http://oprahsangelnetwork.org/stories/726-a-prescription-for-change]
 ==Coordinators: Past & Present==

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 '''Project Health''' (PH) is the Columbia University site of a national nonprofit, Project HEALTH [http://www.projecthealth.org], that has locations at universities in [[Boston]] ([[Harvard]], BU), Providence ([[Brown]]), [[Washington, DC]] (GW), Baltimore (Johns Hopkins, UMBC, Loyola), [[New York City]] (Columbia, [[NYU]]), and [[Chicago]] ([[UChicago]]).
-Project Health at Columbia is a community service student organization recognized by [[Community Impact]]; it mobilizes approximately 60-70 volunteers per semester to "break the link between poverty and poor health" through its Family Help Desk and STRIVE programs. The organization is almost entirely student-run, with some support from full-time local staff in New York and national staff in Boston.
+Project Health at Columbia is a community service student organization recognized by [[Community Impact]]; it mobilizes approximately 60-70 volunteers per semester to "break the link between poverty and poor health" through its three Family Help Desks. The organization is almost entirely student-run, with some support from full-time local staff in New York and national staff in Boston.
 ==History and Programs==

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 === 2010-2011 ===
 * Campus Coordinators: Sahil Vora (CC '11) and Thomas Sun (CC '11)
-* Fall FHD Harlem: Salomeya Sobko (CC '12) and Dan Schwartz (CC '12)
+* Fall FHD Harlem OB/GYN: Salomeya Sobko (CC '12) and Jenn Leyva (CC '12)
 * Fall FHD Pres: Leah Goodman (CC '11), Carlos Plata-Martinez (CC '12) and Zoe Sansted (CC '12)
 * Spring FHD Harlem:

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 |Executive board= 2 Campus Coordinators; 2-4 Program Coordinators/program
 |Website= [http://www.projecthealth.org projecthealth.org]
 [http://communityimpactatcu.org/ci/programs/health-environment/project-health CI website]
 |Contact= [mailto:projecthealth@gmail.com Project Health--Columbia]

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 |Membership= ~60-70
 |Executive board= 2 Campus Coordinators; 2-4 Program Coordinators/program
-[Campus Website= [https://sites.google.com/site/phcolumbia/ phcolumbia.tk]
+|Website= [http://www.projecthealth.org projecthealth.org]
-|Organization Website= [http://www.projecthealth.org projecthealth.org]
+[http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ci/groups/ProjectHealth.htm CI website]
 |Contact= [mailto:projecthealth@gmail.com Project Health--Columbia]
 |Category= [[:Category:Community service clubs|Community Service]]