UCSF Pediatrics Primary Care Track Resident Projects

Bayview Hill Gardens Partnership: Solidifying Medical Homes for Transitioning Families

Goal: To improve access to primary healthcare and medical homes for children in the Bayview Hill Gardens community by augmenting family trust in existing medical relationships

Bayview Hill Gardens Partnership: Literacy Promotion in Formerly Homeless Youth

Goal: To increase access to books and to promote early literacy and family engagement with reading in this high-risk community.

Bayview Hill Gardens: Family Mindfulness Program

Goals: Collaborate with Bayview Hill Gardens to develop a family mindfulness program

Evaluate the feasibility and acceptability of such a program in a transitional housing development (and general trends in mindfulness/resilience)

Build a pathway towards sustaining the program

Further strengthen the partnership between Bayview Hill Gardens and the Primary Care Track.

Huckleberry Youth Programs

Goals: partner with Huckleberry Youth Programs to “educate, inspire, and support underserved youth to develop healthy life choices, to maximize their potential, and to realize their dreams.”

Increase access to health care in primary medical homes for arrested and high-risk youth through a multi-pronged outreach and education strategy aimed at youth, their families, referring assessment staff, and juvenile justice staff.

Health Education at the Juvenile Justice Center

Opportunity for education and youth empowerment for all youth currently incarcerated in San Francisco. The curriculum is flexible based on the UCSF team expertise and interest. Curriculums have included health insurance and access and human anatomy.

Wellness Academy Project

Support the Sophomore Wellness Academy Cohort in their community based project - a large community survey about Homelessness and Gentrification in SF - by giving a workshop on qualitative vs. quantitative data and facilitating a discussion on community engagement and how best to use the data they collected to influence positive change.

Help students explore healthcare careers by facilitating shadowing opportunities.

Gateway Middle School Garden and Nutrition Project

Goal: To empower youth in our community to choose healthy living through a school-based afterschool program focusing on gardening, healthy eating, and exercise.