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Project in Alaska City Struggles with Faith in Action Name

May 31, 2009 | Program Result Report

Sitka is a coastal island city accessible only by boat or air. A number of the 8,800 residents of this isolated community do not have family members or close friends nearby to rely on in times of need.

Oregon Hospital Helps Establish Faith in Action Volunteer Caregivers Program

April 17, 2007 | Program Result Report

From 2001 to 2004, staff at Sherwood Faith in Action in Sherwood, Ore., recruited, trained and deployed volunteers to provide caregiver services locally to both disabled and frail elderly people.

A Network of Medical Volunteers Expands in South Carolina

January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

Starting in August 1994, a managed network of volunteer medical providers called Commun-I-Care continued ongoing efforts to provide non-emergency health care to the uninsured poor in South Carolina.

Helping the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Extend a Helping Hand in the U.S.

July 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.

Reach Out Projects Extend Outreach of Medical Care to West Virginians

January 16, 2004 | Program Result Report

The West Virginia University School of Medicine at Morgantown, W.Va., and three state-sanctioned "Health Right" free clinics developed a project entitled Reach Out: Physicians' Initiative to Expand Care to Underserved West Virginians.

Physicians' Outreach Project Expands Access to Specialty Care for Low-Income Patients in Tallahassee

January 31, 2004 | Program Result Report

The Capital Medical Society created the Physicians' Outreach Project, a collaborative, volunteer effort to extend the services of the society's We Care Network to three adjacent rural counties: Gadsden, Jefferson and Wakulla counties.

Opening Doors: A Program to Reduce Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care

December 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

One of the most significant changes affecting health care in the United States is the increasing racial and ethnic diversity of the population.

Rural Georgia Launches Free Health Center for Underserved Residents

March 1, 2005 | Program Result Report

The Good Samaritan Health and Wellness Center provided free health care and dental services to the poor and working poor living in rural Pickens County, Ga.

2002 Forum Explores Impact of National Service Programs on Youths, Seniors and Rural Development

April 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

The International Center for Innovation in Civic Participation, Washington, (now called Innovations in Civic Participation) conducted a two-day forum in May 2003 to stimulate new thinking about the future shape and purpose of national service.

Farmworkers Trained as Health Promoters Sow the Seeds of Better Health Care

January 29, 2002 | Program Result Report

Community Health Care in Bridgeton, N.J., developed a program to train farmworkers in Cumberland County to become lay health promoters.

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