The AmeriCorps Year Comes to an End.

July 29th was the last day of my year of service and work with this wonderful crew of people.


During our AmeriCorps graduation we were asked to reflect on some of the projects that we have been a part of and some of the successes that we've had, and I got pretty overwhelmed by all the things that Elisa and I accomplished this year. To name a few of our projects:

• We've started 2 walking groups, providing individualized exercise information to over 60 patients
• We've started the Sea Mar Smart Food projects, and provided nutrition counseling and grocery store tours to about 50 patients
• We created and carried out a 6 week tobacco support group curriculum
• We built a comprehensive system of health education referral follow-up reaching over 200 patients since January
  
• We were part of the Hypertension Quality Improvement Initiative, and I was able to lead 3 hypertension classes reaching over 20 patients

All in a year's worth of work. I'd say we did a pretty good job. The thing is, none of it would have been possible without our fearless leaders and mentors. As well as without our team's support and inspiration. So, after a year of hard work, I say "Good work, Team" and a big big big THANKS!