Outreach
Beyond the Classroom
Promoting health equity and empowering communities
We offer students several opportunities to engage in local and global service to enhance the quality of life of individuals and communities while enriching student learning experiences. Explore a few of our featured opportunities. Interested in service activities focused on reflection and professional development? Learn more about opportunities in the Center for Community and Global Health and Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership.
ASPIRE (Academic Summer Program Integrating Resources for Excellence (ASPIRE)
ASPIRE is an intensive program held in June that will prepare you for the medical school application process and help you strengthen your application, expose you to the impact of health disparities, and introduce you to the Maywood community. Email aspire@luc.edu for application information and to learn more about program outcomes.
Housing Forward
Loyola Medicine and Stritch partner with Housing Forward to minimize homelessness in Cook County. Housing Forward helps clients achieve self-sufficiency by providing access to basic self-care services for daily living, as well as health and case management services. Housing Forward provides shelter, support services, employment readiness, and supportive housing.
HPREP
The Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) seeks to help alleviate healthcare disparities by encouraging high school students from underrepresented groups and/or from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue healthcare careers.
Maywood Youth 4 Change
A Loyola-directed program, Maywood Youth 4 Change provides local children and teens with a safe space and activities. Its goal: help them develop leadership skills, express their creativity, improve or develop artistic skills, and become active community participants. Volunteers plan instructive and creative programming geared to participants. Maywood Youth 4 Change is held Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
PULSE
The Proviso United with Loyola Students for Educational Enrichment (PULSE) program offers high school students interested in a medical career with educational opportunities in science, a mentor, and college preparation.
Email ssom-diversity@luc.edu for more information on any of these programs.
We offer students several opportunities to engage in local and global service to enhance the quality of life of individuals and communities while enriching student learning experiences. Explore a few of our featured opportunities. Interested in service activities focused on reflection and professional development? Learn more about opportunities in the Center for Community and Global Health and Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Healthcare Leadership.
ASPIRE (Academic Summer Program Integrating Resources for Excellence (ASPIRE)
ASPIRE is an intensive program held in June that will prepare you for the medical school application process and help you strengthen your application, expose you to the impact of health disparities, and introduce you to the Maywood community. Email aspire@luc.edu for application information and to learn more about program outcomes.
Housing Forward
Loyola Medicine and Stritch partner with Housing Forward to minimize homelessness in Cook County. Housing Forward helps clients achieve self-sufficiency by providing access to basic self-care services for daily living, as well as health and case management services. Housing Forward provides shelter, support services, employment readiness, and supportive housing.
HPREP
The Health Professionals Recruitment and Exposure Program (HPREP) seeks to help alleviate healthcare disparities by encouraging high school students from underrepresented groups and/or from disadvantaged backgrounds to pursue healthcare careers.
Maywood Youth 4 Change
A Loyola-directed program, Maywood Youth 4 Change provides local children and teens with a safe space and activities. Its goal: help them develop leadership skills, express their creativity, improve or develop artistic skills, and become active community participants. Volunteers plan instructive and creative programming geared to participants. Maywood Youth 4 Change is held Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m.
PULSE
The Proviso United with Loyola Students for Educational Enrichment (PULSE) program offers high school students interested in a medical career with educational opportunities in science, a mentor, and college preparation.
Email ssom-diversity@luc.edu for more information on any of these programs.