Service Learning Project: Lois Ann’s Hope House
Role
- Facilitated and provided an oral health workshop to shelter residents
- Discuss global impacts of oral health
- explain my role as a public health practitioner
Knowledge
- It allowed me to gain skills and knowledge to apply in the real world that I may not have necessarily gained in the classroom.
- Being involved allowed me to become aware of the needs people are facing and how important my role is to help them meet those needs.
Skills
- Public speaking
- Presenting my oral health workshop allowed me to brush up on my public speaking skills as I presented to a group of 12 individuals.
- Switching from using professional jargon to laymen’s terms.
- Often times, as professionals and practitioners we communicate to others who understand the technical terms, however, in presenting to the community it forced me to simplify the knowledge I was sharing.
- Organization
- I had to design, and prepare for the work shop several weeks in advance to ensure I conveyed all of the planned information, which required a lot of organization beforehand.
