We’ve launched a new blog that promises to be the hub of communications and coordination for U-M Haiti Relief efforts across campus.
We will no longer be posting to this blog and it will soon be taken down.
7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Palmer Commons, 6th Floor
Conference Rooms 4 & 5
- Introductions – brief history (5 minutes)
- Action plan/category idea – immediate, short-term, long-term (5 minutes)
- Leaders in each category (volunteers, communication, fundraising, institutional support, Haitian cultural appreciation, NGOs) introduce their plans (2 minutes each)
- Student group/University unit/campus office updates (2 minutes each)
- Campus-wide blog introduction (15 minutes)
- Name/logo/slogan (for coordinating efforts) ‘contest’ introduction (2 minutes)
- Campus-wide coordinating goals (breakouts, 10 minutes)
- Report back, decide (10 minutes)
- Conclusion – set next meeting if desired
*Please come with an update from your group, preferably written, so coordination efforts can be as efficient as possible.
*Please send one or two representatives from your group, etc. and announcements will be made to the entire email list (subscribe yourself through the U-M Directory) and here on the blog afterwards calling for volunteers, leadership, and more.
Raffle For Haiti, benefiting the Yele Haiti Foundation, Rush Street
Salsa Night, Cafe Habana
In an effort to coordinate activities across campus student groups, offices, and other interested individuals, a campus-wide coordinating meeting will be held:
THURSDAY, 21 January
7:00pm-8:30pm
Palmer Commons 6th floor, conference rooms 4 & 5
We are seeking the one individual who is leading any effort by a student org, office, etc., rather than multiple individuals from each org/office. Notes will be taken and sent to this list, as well as posted to the blog, to make sure that everyone has access to what’s going on. Please bring an update on what your group is doing and what it’s interested in doing. If you can have something written down to leave with us so we have a record of what’s going on, it would be much appreciated.
To get a sense of how many people are going to attend, please reply to Carrie at crheinga (at) umich.edu.
Indian American Student Association
TUESDAY, January 19th 7PM East Hall
Snacks will be provided. All proceeds will go to Haiti Earthquake Relief efforts via UNICEF.
Come hear YOUR 2010-2011 candidates give their speeches and cast your vote! Also, bid on some of your very own fellow IASA members and get a FREE TICKET to IASA Formal (which is Thursday night)!…
A RAFFLE FOR HAITI
Date: Thursday, January 21st
Time: 9pm – 2am
Music by: DJ Graffiti
Location: Rush Street (312 S. Main St.)
Details: 21+, No cover, $2 suggested donation for each raffle ticket (collected at the door)
Drink Specials (until 12): $4 Champagne, $4 Long Islands, $1.50 Bud Light Draft
For more Info visit: http://www.djgraffiti.com/raffle-for-haiti/
100% of the raffle proceeds will be donated to the Yele Haiti foundation to assist in the relief efforts.
PRIZES:
1. VTech IS9181 Wi-Fi Radio – WiFi streaming music device with access to over 11,000 global stations. Also streams digital music files stored on your PC or Mac
2. VTech LS6245 – Sleek expandable cordless phone system with Bluetooth® wireless technology and touch controls (connect your cell via Bluetooth, let your cell phone charge, and answer your cell phone calls via a landline cordless phone!).
3. Zune HD – The only MP3 player with a touchscreen, HD Radio™, HD video out, and wireless sync.
4. Cases of Vitamin Water – Drink better water. You know it, you love it. Take home a whole case.
5. Boss 514CA In Dash Car Stereo Receiver – CD, MP3 & iPod compatible, detachable drop down faceplate, plus 200 watts of power!
6. Rush Street $50 Gift Certificate – Your drinks are on us if you win this one.
7. Derby Girls Tickets – 2 Tickets to the February 13th Detroit Derby Girls game. Who doesn’t like watching girls kicking a** on skates?
8. Music Prize Packs – Prize packages of 3-5 CDs from Universal Music (including Timbaland, K Jon, Melanie Fiona, Kid Sister, Ryan Leslie, Kid Cudi, Young Money, Birdman), A-Side Worldwide (Mayer Hawthorne, Buff1, 14KT), Celsius Electronics and more.
More prizes and the full amount we raise & donate will be announced on the website at http://www.djgraffiti.com/raffle-for-haiti/
“From the Hispanic and Latino Business Student Association:
Familia,
In light of the recent tragedy that occurred in Haiti HLBSA will be holding a charity event this Thursday. During out Salsa Night at Cafe Habana this Thursday, we will be accepting $5 donations that will go towards Haitian relief efforts. HLBSA Members who make a donation will receive a wristband for the HLBSA bar tab!
Here are the details:
What: Salsa for Haiti Relief
When: January 21st (This Thursday) @ 9:30pm
Where: Cafe Habana: 211 E. Washington
Donations of $5 will be accepted for Haitian relief efforts and HLBSA club members will receive access to the HLBSA bar tab (non-HLBSA members will create their own bar tabs). PARTNERS ARE WELCOME.
Please register for the event here:
https://ross-hlbsa.campusgroups.com/rsvp.aspx?id=13608
See you all there,
HLBSA Social Chair
Guillermo”
Contact Guillermo with questions at gyounger (at) umich.edu
The University of Michigan Health System was highlighted on a Michigan Radio report on 15 January 2010. Listen to the report here. See the transcript below:
Steve Carmody (2010-01-15) Aid to Haiti
“ANN ARBOR, MI (MICHIGAN RADIO) -
Groups across Michigan are sending whatever they can to help the people in Haiti.
The University of Michigan health system is sending much needed medical supplies and people to help.
“Like a puzzle,” stockman Randall Black says with a smile, as he stacks a mix of surgical gloves crutches and other items being donated by the U of M medical center. U of M is working with an international aid group to make arrangements to get the much needed medical supplies to Haiti.
Dr. Sacha Montas is making his own arrangements to get to Port-Au-Prince. The emergency room physician’s parents are natives of Haiti. He says his skills are needed now.
“From speaking to my family there is such a need for doctors,” says Montas, “Such a need for care that probably very simple interventions, like antibiotics, like closing a wound that’s open, may save a lot of lives.”
Montas hopes to leave sometime in the next few days. He expects he’ll be making many trips home in the coming months, as the medical needs evolve in Haiti.”
© Copyright 2010, Michigan Radio
Notes about a number of fundraising events in the works from the Friday, 15 January meeting of students from many professional schools. The idea is for a week’s worth of fundraising activities across campus. The proposed theme is Haiti’s motto “L’union fait la Force” (Unity Makes Strong). Please contact Taurean to get involved: taurean (at) umich.edu
EVENT 1: Clothing and Supplies – competition between professional schools!
- Get undergrads involved, esp. greeks
- Possible drive at basketball/hockey games
- Establish a list of the most NECESSARY goods
Committee: Akilah & Dorothy & Stacy & Taurean
EVENT 2: brownbag panel (hopefully lunch provided) – FORD SCHOOL (possibly Wed)
o public health
o religion/misconceptions
o economics – possibly mancini
o history phds
Committee: Dominique & Taurean
EVENT 3: Red Cross Blood drive ? UNION?
o Check in with UM Medical center
Committee: Annabel & Taurean
EVENT 4: Party (sat) ? confirm dates with PJ?s manager, John (Jbogard1@hotmail.com)
Committee: Akilah & Taurean & Chris
EVENT 5: Documentary/Caribbean Food sale
- find movie/documentary to show
- compose letter to grocery stores for donations
- create a menu
Committee: Stephanie & Stacy & Sam & Taurean
Email from Cheryl Moyer and Dr. Joe Kolars of Global REACH and Dr. Liz Petty (Office of Student Programs) at the Medical School and Dr. Ora Hirsch Pescovitz (Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs) and Tony Denton (Chief Operating Officer, U-M Hospitals & Health Centers) sent on 15 January 2010.
“Dear Students -
Following the tragic earthquake in Haiti, many of you have expressed an interest getting involved in some way to help the people of Port-au-Prince and beyond. We hear you, and we agree that it feels fundamentally inappropriate to sit on our hands as so many others suffer.
Global REACH and the Office of Student Programs are working with the Hospital and Health Centers to ensure a coordinated – and appropriate - response to this tragedy. (See attached email from UMHS, below.) We are also interfacing with agencies outside the medical center who specialize in immediate deployment of disaster relief teams. As you can imagine, they will be well-positioned to mobilize teams who will be of greatest utility in the wake of this disaster.
As much as you might like to board the next plane to Haiti, or ship every medical supply you can get your hands on to Port-au-Prince, we must encourage you to remember that a coordinated effort is what is needed. To that end, we encourage you to focus your efforts on fundraising, rather than trying to ship supplies or travel to Haiti yourselves.
The following UM websites provide information on where you may donate funds..
http://www.med.umich.edu/haiti/
http://www.ur.umich.edu/update/archives/100115/haitimsc
http://www.vpcomm.umich.edu/issues/haiti.html
As many of you know, there is a meeting this afternoon (3pm – 3813/17) to discuss cross-school coordination. In addition, Ashwin Vasan is a fellow medical student who has worked with Paul Farmer and Partners In Health, and he has contacted you regarding the possibility of working with the Partners in Health development/fundraising office to get official sponsorship for a large-scale fundraiser. Both Global REACH and the Office of Student Programs are enormously supportive of such endeavors.
Again, we commend your passion and commitment to assist those in need. But we respectfully suggest that right now, the best assistance is likely to be financial. And in the coming weeks and months and years, when the inundation of initial aid begins to wane, there will no doubt be ongoing opportunities for students to travel to Haiti and contribute to ongoing recovery efforts.
Please feel free to contact me, Dr. Kolars, or Dr. Petty if you have further
questions, comments, or concerns.
Regards,
Cheryl Moyer
Managing Director
Global REACH
camoyer (at) umich.edu
on behalf of Dr. Joe Kolars, Global REACH and Dr. Liz Petty, Office of Student Programs
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*A message from Ora Hirsch Pescovitz, M.D., Executive Vice President for Medical Affairs, and Tony Denton, Chief Operating Officer, U-M Hospitals & Health Centers:*
Thank you all so very much for your support, kind notes and willingness to
assist those affected by the Haiti earthquake. The response to yesterday’s
e-mail message is a heartwarming reminder of the compassion and dedication at all levels of this organization.
As you can imagine and have undoubtedly heard, the needs of the Haitian people are extensive and include everything from water and shelter to medical supplies and treatment. Our UMHS response task force convened yesterday to identify how we can best assist the response and recovery effort in a way that is streamlined, efficient and meaningful, without adding undue burden.
At this point, our top priorities are to be ready to contribute assistance,
gather information and coordinate with local and national response and relief networks and agencies.
At this time, we have made five important commitments:
• Medical Supplies: The Health System is taking inventory and gathering medical supplies that will be sent to the Detroit-based World Medical Relief organization. WMR expects to send a large shipment to Haiti early next week..
• Air Medical Support: Our Survival Flight fixed wing aircraft has been registered for use with the Association of Air Medical Services, to be deployed when called upon for air medical transport of personnel, patients and supplies to and from Haiti. In response, we have received notice that our Survival Flight fixed-wing aircraft has been designated as a Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) preferred provider and is now in “on call” status.
• Volunteer Lists: We have already begun the process of generating volunteer physician, nursing and pharmacist lists so that we can match resources to needs when necessary. Language proficiency and significant overseas experience will be important criteria. Our pharmacy team is preparing for immunization readiness. Other longer-term support issues are being defined, including social infrastructure support.
• Collaborations: We are actively coordinating relief efforts across the University and with other area health care providers and disaster relief agencies such as the American Red Cross, for long-term support.
• Facilities: We will make our clinical facilities available if and when needed to care for earthquake victims.
Many of you are asking how you can help. At this time, we are encouraging people to make donations to the American Red Cross and other organizations and charities. More information is located on a Web site we’ve created to be a central hub of information about our response effort: http://www.med.umich.edu/haiti.
We will continue to share details of our response plan and activities as they evolve. Considering the extent of the devastation and the fact that there are still so many unknowns, we expect the recovery effort to be extremely long-term and that there will be many ongoing needs.
Over the past few days, we’ve seen the Michigan Difference being expressed in powerful, moving ways of generosity, caring and outreach across this Health System and University. Thank you!
Ora and Tony
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This information is also available on the UMHS intranet at www.med.umich.edu/i/prmc/globaluser.”
“Social Workers Prepared to Help Victims of Haiti Earthquake
NASW encourages members to get involved
In the aftermath of the deadly earthquake in Haiti this week, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) is issuing an alert to its nearly 150,000 members to help support recovery efforts for victims and their families. If you would like to join with your social worker colleagues in the social work response to this disaster, you can donate through the NASW Foundation’s Social Work Disaster Assistance Fund to assist social workers and/or social welfare organizations who can provide help.
In disasters such as this, social workers are uniquely suited to assess the disaster environment in a culturally competent manner and to provide leadership in promoting effective disaster relief and recovery efforts. For more information, click here.
NASW recognizes that some of our members and friends have lost loved ones through this tragedy. Our thoughts are with those affected by this disaster.”
This is copied from an email sent by the NASW Practice Department on 15 January 2010.
Stories from across campus News from Haiti
