Schweitzer Fellows REACH for Healthier Camden

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Hyun Ouk Hong and Farhad Modarai, second year medical students at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) created the REACH program and serve as the administrators for the project’s first year. Project REACH (Revitalizing Education & Advancing Camden’s Health), a program that is equipped with a self-discipline technique, is a distinctive health education involvement program intended to prepare helpless Camden middle school students with the ability to assume responsibility of their own health and let their neighborhoods to do the same. The two worked together with the Camden community members with the help of The Albert Schweitzer Fellowship, a national nonprofit organization that works to address health disparities by developing “leaders in service”. Creating an interactive problem-based learning (PBL) curriculum on preventive health, with full unique workshops that will help youth-initiated community health service projects, and delivering that syllabus each week to students at East Camden Middle School (ECMS).

To this far, their plans have coped up with cleaning graffiti, preventing bullying in school, preventing the gang violence, serving the homeless, teaching to eat healthy, stopping smoking, and cleaning the environment.