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As an Oakland native, Jackie Ho understands issues of health disparities and
social justice. The Health Education major completed more than 100 hours
of community service interning at Chinatown Public Health Center, where
he helped monolingual Chinese immigrants access health resources. He also
helped Chinese Cancer patients at SF General connect with social support
to manage their disease. Jackie will be working for the Peace Corps as a
Community Health Empowerment Facilitator in Fiji after graduation.

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2013 Community Service Learning (CSL) and Civic Engagement Awards

2013 Community Service Learning (CSL) and Civic Engagement Awards
Angelina Molina has contributed greatly to Latino health through her extensive
work at Clinica Martín-Baró. Clinica seeks to alleviate the suffering of the
poor by providing free, linguistically accommodating healthcare services and
disease prevention education to the medically and economically disadvantaged
Spanish-speaking community in San Francisco’s Mission District. This Health
Education major recruits and mentors numerous student volunteers, most of
who come from immigrant families.
2012 Community Service Learning (CSL) and Civic Engagement Awards
Courtney Hendrix was honored for her work with the California Food Justice
Coalition in Oakland, which promotes the basic human right to healthy food
while advancing sustainable, low-cost agricultural and environmental practices.
Her passion was ignited through her HED 480 internship and is still going on
to this day. She has written 2-3 proposals for them, one of which funded a new
project she will lead.

Community Health Works
For 20 years, Community Health Works has been a collaborative partnership between the City College of San Francisco’s (CCSF) Health Education Department (College of Health and Physical Education) and SF State’s Department
of Health Education (College of Health and Social Sciences). Nationally and statewide, the ongoing relationship
between the two departments is one of a handful of long-term inter-segmental partnerships between community
colleges and state universities. The partnership’s focus is on eliminating inequities in urban community health and in
post-secondary education. City College has played the leading role in education and training, and SF State has played
the leading role in research, development and evaluation.
The partnership has been extraordinarily productive, and has created many new programs for the benefit of our students and communities. We are now piloting three Metro Academies at SF State and two at CCSF, with the career
themes of community health, STEM and early childhood education. These Academies are geared toward college
transfer and completion for under-represented and low-income students. We have an unbroken record to date of institutionalizing programs initiated on grants. For example, we have institutionalized at City College a series of CTE programs: the Community Health Worker Certificate, the Drug and Alcohol Studies Certificate, the Health Care Interpreter Certificate (with Kaiser Permanente), and the Welcome Back Center at John Adams Campus. We have developed a
dense network of community and employer partners including Kaiser Permanente, the nine health departments of the
Bay Area, and many others.
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