Events

Please visit our Google Calendar for information about upcoming events, including clinics, outreach, and training.

For more information about clinics, please see our Clinics page.

Sign-up forms will be sent via email, and transportation will be arranged.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or concerns.

May 2012 Events

Mt. Zion Clinic
Saturday May 3rd, 9am-12pm

Chinatown Public Health Center Clinic
Saturday May 12th, 9am-12pm

Lifelong Medical Center Health Fair
Saturday May 19th

Asian Heritage Festival
Saturday May 19th

Mobile Clinic
Saturday May 26th, 1:30-4:30pm
Asian Pacific American Health Center in SF
VHIO will provide interpretation for this pilot clinic screening for hepatitis B, blood glucose, and blood pressure.

June 2012 Events

Mt. Zion Clinic
Saturday June 2nd, 9am-12pm
This will be the last Mt. Zion hepatitis B clinic.

Chinatown Public Health Center Clinic
Saturday June 9th, 9am-12pm

July 2012 Events

Chinatown Public Health Center Clinic
Saturday July 14th, 9am-12pm

August 2012 Events

Chinatown Public Health Center Clinic
Saturday August 11th, 9am-12pm

September 2012 Events

Chinatown Public Health Center Clinic
Saturday September 8th, 9am-12pm

Tenderloin Health and Safety Center
Saturday September 29th

Community Outreach and Screening

To inform the community about the free or low-cost services provided by the clinics run by partner organizations and to promote awareness about various health issues, VHIO interpreters often assist with grass-roots community outreach, such as mobile screening and education in Autumn Moon Festival street celebration, Chinese New Year celebration, Cherry Blossom Festival, or simply church or temple-sponsored health fairs that require language concordance with the target audience.

Volunteers present health information by street fair tabling, oral presentations, interactive workshops, and flyering. Topics of the community outreach events have included hepatitis B, blood sugar and cholesterol, blood pressure, colon cancer, skin cancer, and disaster preparedness.

In both outreach and screening events, VHIO interpreters provide crucial language assistance that bridges the language barrier between the health workers and the community members.

Outreach Committees

Besides interpreter requests by partner organizations, our Korean and Vietnamese Outreach Committees work to establish connections and offer interpretation and volunteering services to various organizations.

The VHIO Korean Outreach Committee has presented hepatitis B information in numerous Korean community centers, churches, and senior centers, as well as serving in many follow-up screening events.

The VHIO Vietnamese Outreach Committee is reaching out to the Vietnamese community through temples, community centers, public service announcements, and local Vietnamese newspapers, resulting in several outreach and screening events specific for Vietnamese communities.

Speaker’s Bureau

The Speaker’s Bureau of the SF Hep B Free campaign is an organized community outreach project that VHIO has provided assistance and support for since the fall of 2010. The Speaker’s Bureau recruits and trains volunteers to become fluent speakers in presenting hepatitis B information at small businesses and community settings.

Alzheimer’s Services of the East Bay

Volunteering with Alzheimer’s Services will be on an individual basis. Please contact us for details if you are interested. The site is on Channing Way and is just a short walk from campus. Volunteering hours during the week are flexible.

CACCC End of Life Care

The Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care helps with end of life/hospice care. Volunteers provide simultaneous interpretation, for which there is a specific training. Most of the outreach events are based in San Jose or Sacramento.

Labor Coaching

(For female volunteers only) Be a labor coach and help with labor and delivery in Oakland. You will be on call and must be ready to assist your patient any time.  An application is required; please contact us for details.

SRO-CHIP

VHIO is helping with the Community Health Initiation Project with UCSF to hold workshops educate Single Room Occupancy (SRO) residents on a spectrum of healthcare topics ranging from proper hand-washing to domestic violence to disaster preparedness. VHIO helps to train students from SF high schools to serve as interpreters for the SRO residents; we also help with the interpretation at the workshops. We plan to increase our involvement in the future. In the meantime, please contact us for details if you would like to help with interpretation or curriculum development.