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Anne Grossman
MD, FACP · Assistant Professor, Medical Education and Clinical Sciences
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Service Learning is a teaching and learning strategy that integrates meaningful community service with instruction and reflection to enrich the learning experience, teach civic responsibility, and strengthen communities.1

Service Learning provides both academic and social connections. Research has shown it to be an important element in student success. Students who engage in Service Learning activities typically have more interactions with faculty and community partners than students who don’t engage in service learning. 

Service activities have been shown to keep students engaged in their education, propelling them towards successful careers.

Find the learning objectives and requirements on E.Flo MD

Why

Partners

Give Pulse

A list of community agencies and programs where students may wish to complete required service hours is available on the WSU Health Sciences GivePulse website. 

A list of potential Community Partners

Students are free to work with any organization (but an affiliation agreement is needed). Following is a list of places where students have partnered in the past.

  • Aging & Long Term Care of Eastern Washington (ALTCEW)
  • Alzheimer’s support group
  • American Red Cross
  • AMWA-PATH (Physicians Against Trafficking of Humans)
  • APIC (Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Spokane)
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
  • Breast Intentions
  • Camp Stix
  • Cancer Can’t Volunteer Transportation
  • CHAMP (Vancouver)
  • CHAS
  • City of Spokane Fire Department CARES team
  • Clean Trails
  • Daybreak Youth Center
  • Family Promise Spokane
  • Feast World Kitchen
  • Free Clinic of SW Washington
  • Free Rein Therapeutic Riding
  • Girls on the Run, Spokane chapter
  • Habitat for Humanity
  • Hospice of Spokane
  • International Rescue Committee Spokane
  • Jewels Helping Hands
  • Latinos En Spokane: El Mercadito
  • Lions Club (check in with Makena Kerr, MS3 for more information)
  • Meals on Wheels
  • MLK Family Outreach Center
  • Mujeres in Action (MiA)
  • ParaSport Spokane
  • Peer Spokane
  • Planned Parenthood
  • Priority Spokane
  • Project Adam/Heart Safe Schools
  • Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center
  • Providence Adult and Teen Congenital Heart Program (PATCH)
  • Range Community Clinic
  • Refugee and Immigrant Connections Spokane!
  • Salvation Army
  • SCALPEL (WSU outreach program)
  • SCRUBS
  • Second Harvest Food Bank
  • SHIBA (Statewide Health Insurance Benefits Volunteer)
  • Spark central
  • Special Olympics
  • SpoCanopy
  • Spokane Regional Health District
  • Spokane Regional Health District Syringe Exchange
  • Spokane Search and Rescue
  • Spokane Union Gospel Mission
  • Spokane UGM Medical Clinic
  • Spokane Valley Partners
  • Steven’s County Mentorship Program (WSU Outreach)
  • Stop the Bleed
  • Therapeutic Recreation Services
  • Union Gospel Mission
  • University District Food Bank
  • Vanessa Behan
  • Vitalant
  • Volunteers of America
  • WA State Opportunity Scholarship
  • WA State Parks
  • West Valley High School HOSA Club (WSU Outreach)
  • Women and Children’s Free Restaurant
  • Women’s Hearth
  • World Relief
  • WSU Native Health Center
  • YMCA
  • YWCA

References

Learning in deed: The power of service learning for American schools (PDF). A Report From the National Commission on Service-Learning.