Detroit is a place of creating collective solutions to the issues of our day. We know to improve communities, we must work together to build healthy spaces and holistically integrate health and healing in all we do. Thousands of people from all walks of life are expected to be in Detroit this June 22-26 and volunteers are coming together to implement and live out this commitment. Your help is needed on our Health & Healing Justice Committee!
*Clicking either of the above buttons will take you to an online signup form. Please fill it out, click 'submit' and we will be in touch with you. If you have trouble with the online form, feel to Download it in Word format, and email it to contact Catherine Wilkerson at cwilkmd(at)gmail.com.
We are calling & inviting medical/allied personnel such as: Paramedics, EMT's, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Doctors, Physician Assistants, Nursing students, Medical students, Mental Health Professionals etc… to volunteer to be on a Basic Aid Team during the USSF June 22 -26, 2010.
These teams will consist of medical and Complementary/Integrative personnel (e.g. doctors & healers) whom will either be on a mobile medic team, or stationary at a Comfort Aid Station. The Comfort Aid Stations & the Mobile Medic Teams will be located in the Downtown Detroit Civic Center in three main areas:
We will be creating a space for transformational practices of individual and collective healing to respond to the traumatic conditions in our communities and to provide wellness and safety during the 5 days of the USSF.
Our committee is seeking volunteers from Detroit & around the country who are interested in and/or are healing arts practitioners of reiki, massage, yoga, energy and bodywork, dance movements, somatic, art therapies etc. to help to help see through this vision.
The Healing Space will be located in the Downtown Detroit Civic Center and will include:
All volunteers of the USSF are asked to register, contribute what they can monetarily, and will receive on site guidelines and principles of practice to maintain the integrity of the space, upon arrival. Please spread the word if you know of others who can support!
Meeting our health & healing goals for the USSF will depend largely on the collective sharing of resources. If you'd like to support the attendees of the USSF by mobilizing medical supplies & donations towards our health & healing efforts, please visit our Health Supplies Needs page for a list of medical supplies we're looking for as well as a form letter for donation requests.
In Health,
The Health, Healing & Environmental Justice committee
For donations and related concerns, contact Nisa Joorabchi nisajoo(at)yahoo.com
For medical volunteers and related concerns, contact Catherine Wilkerson cwilkmd(at)gmail.com
For healing volunteers and related concerns, contact Charity Hicks sublimelight(at)netscape.net