NHC SF Member Blog: Alumni Spotlight - Meet Saadhana Deshpande, NHC 2021-2022; 2022-2023 Alum!

“My background in community health has also proven very useful [at Drexel]: for example, as a part of our Health Advocacy Practicum, I’ve been placed with the Center for Addiction Medicine & Policy, which is one of Penn Medicine’s initiatives… I wouldn’t feel so confident doing that if it weren’t for my experience as a Health Worker at SFDPH, where I worked… to deliver naloxone training in San Francisco. And I wouldn’t have received that offer without my time in the National Health Corps… It really started with the Berkeley Free Clinic and NHC, and now I’m here!”

NHC SF Member Blog: Rediscovering Service - Meeting the Needs We See

“AmeriCorps has redefined what service means to me. I came in with ideas about what service should look like, but through my term, I’ve realized service isn’t a specific set of actions or a certain role. Service is about meeting the needs I see in front of me.”

NHC SF Member Blog: Alumni Spotlight - Meet Whitney Francis, NHC SF 2019-2020 Alumna!

“I think the most impactful part of my service was in large part those relationships that I built with patients and with staff. At the heart of it, besides helping people to manage their chronic conditions through food, those relationships that you build through food pharmacy are also a big part of what the program is about.”

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