Americorps

AmeriCorps State & National members engage in a diverse range of service project at local, regional, and national organizations to address critical community needs of disaster services, economic opportunity, education, healthy futures, environmental stewardship and veterans and military families.

Each year as an AmeriCorps member I have the opportunity to get 5 people together who aren't AmeriCorps members and serve 1 hour together in the community. For my project I had my husband and co-workers assist me in putting together dental hygiene kits for kids. In these kits I included donated toothpaste, toothbrushes, and floss. We were able to assemble almost 400 kits which we then went to a school a family member works at and handed them out to the kids there.

Every month I wrote a reflection about a great experience during my service in clinic.