Health Care Volunteers and Disaster Response
March 11, 2010 | Journal Article
There are a number of simple steps potential health care volunteers can take now to ensure their skills can be utilized effectively in response to future disasters.
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Scholars, Alums from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Programs Heeded the Call for Help in Haiti after Earthquake
May 11, 2010 | Story
Scholars and alumni of the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development and Clinical Scholars programs donated medical services to victims of Haiti earthquake.
Mother's Community Participation and Child Health
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
When mothers of the most disadvantaged children participate in the community, their children's health improves, according to this analysis of an Indonesian longitudinal study of family health and welfare. This suggests community participation may be an important mechanism to help break the intergenerational cycle of poverty.
Participation in Voluntary Youth-Serving Associations and Early Adult Voting Behavior
September 1, 2004 | Journal Article
Membership in voluntary associations has declined but there is disagreement over the extent of the decline and whether it suggests a corresponding decrease in civic activity. This study investigates whether adolescents' participation in volunteer ac ...
Community Service: Reaching Out to Others to Learn More About Yourself
April 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Some volunteer activities such as arts and crafts at Bright Side Manor challenged us to be innovative in creating our own arts and crafts activities that were fun, useful and easy for the elderly residents to construct on their own. Another example, ...
March is Red Cross Month
March 14, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Thousands of Red Cross nurses are trained disaster responders. Our ranks include volunteers like Mary Steece, RN, of Scottsboro, Ala., who dropped everything to travel to Louisville, Ky., where she is helping people who lost so much in the tornados ...
Nursing Students Learn through Real-World Experience
February 17, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Through the next few years, the Nurse’s Desk would reappear each spring and the students would go through the now-familiar process. At the start of term they needed to gain the confidence to invite people to come visit the Nurse’s Desk and have thei ...
Nurses Reach Out to Help Those Who Are Hungry
January 29, 2012 | Story
As the economic downturn made hunger and food insecurity more common last year, nurses stepped up to help meet the need.
Aiming for a 'Smoother Chaos'
September 15, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
So in the weeks and months leading up to hurricane season, we put our leadership teams in place, and make sure our rosters of volunteers have been refreshed. After all, it’s a largely volunteer workforce we rely on, and these are men and women who a ...
RWJF's Hassmiller Aids Tornado Victims in Alabama
May 12, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Times of Trenton is reporting on the extraordinary work of Susan Hassmiller, Ph.D., R.N., F.A.A.N., the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s senior adviser for nursing, who is in Alabama helping victims of the recent tornadoes. An American Red Cross ...