Health Promotions
has new co-chairs, Kathy Kendall and Sandi Winston, and they have
planned a number of activities aimed toward promoting healthy
lifestyles. Please contact either of them if you would like to
join their committee.
KCMSA collects and
donates needed items to local domestic crisis shelters to provide basic
comforts to women and children living in transitional housing.
For twelve years, KCMSA
members have supported the MSMS Foundation, MSMS physician members,
Alliance members, and their families in helping to provide basic
comforts to women and children living in Michigan’s family crisis
shelters. Each year our members collect much-needed personal care items
for families who often arrive at shelters with nothing more than the
clothes on their backs.
Shelter Needs
Include:
1. Diapers, pull-ups and wipes
2. Cleaning products (incl. bleach, laundry detergent, etc)
3. Baby food and formula
4. Deodorant
5. Toothbrushes and toothpaste
6. Over-the-counter flu, cold and pain medicines
7. Feminine products
8. Socks and underwear for children and adults
9. Ethnic hair products
10. Gas and phone cards
Participating is easy,
fun and meaningful for medical families, staff and friends of medicine.
KCMSA members can help in this effort simply by donating a few of the
needed items or distributing empty bags in their neighborhoods or to
other groups. The filled bags are then collected at the KCMSA
Holiday Tea and delivered to local shelters. IDonations
will be delivered to the Kent County YWCA Domestic Crisis Center. For
more information and bags, contact Mary Crawford or email info@kcmsalliance.org.
The goal of Screen Out! is to collect
enough
petition signatures to require an
R rating on any film which shows
smoking. There is evidence that links the incidence of teen
smoking
with the appearance of smoking in the movies. Screen Out! was a
three
year program and will wrap up in October 2009. If you have not
had the
chance to sign the Screen Out! petition and would like to, http://www.screenout.org/petition/index.html will
link to an on line petition. Please forward this link to your
county
members so that we can collect as many signatures as possible from now
until October.
Thanks so much for your help,
Priscilla Wilcox, MSMSA SAVE Day Chair
Screen Out! is a three year public awareness campaign with the ultimate goal of
getting tobacco out of youth-rated movies through a strong base of
grassroots national support. State and local medical alliances
and community partners are joining forces with the AMA Alliance to
change the irresponsible use of tobacco on-screen.
- Research indicates
that one third of all new teen smokers begin smoking because of
exposure to tobacco imagery in movies. This means that Hollywood
recruits approximately 390,000 new adolescent smokers each year, nearly
enough to replace all of the smokers that the tobacco kills on a yearly
basis.
- Approximately 60% of
youth exposure to smoking is in G-, PG– or PG-13 rated movies.
- Children with the
highest exposure in movies are nearly three times more likely to start
smoking than those with the least exposure.
From : http://www.screenout.org/docs/Screen_Out_Fact_Sheet.pdf
For more information on
how you can support the AMA Alliance’s Screen Out! campaign visit www.screenout.org or email info@kcmsalliance.org.
OPEN HOUSE - Sunday, October 18, 1-4pm. KCMS and KCMSA members invited.
Walk through the Medical Resource Donation Center. See the
facility and supplies available for medical mission trips around the
world. Refreshments will be served.
New this year, KCMSA members will be collecting medical supplies on an
ongoing basis rather than once a year as in previous years.
Supplies will be delivered to Rays
of Hope for Haiti,
a
non-denominational organization that sends medical supplies to Haiti as
well as other locations and supplies medical mission trips with
supplies free of charge.
So far in 2009, Rays of
Hope's Medical Resource Donation Center has donated medical supplies to
medical mission programs in 27 underdeveloped or impoverished
nations. They have also donated supplies to local programs for
both educational and medical use. Rays of Hope operates on a
volunteer basis to serve the most needy.
Rays of Hope needs your volunteer help!
Volunteers are needed to help with sorting on Tuesdays between the
hours of 10am and 3pm at the Medical Donation Resource Center: Loading
Dock 6, 446 Grandville Ave SW, Grand Rapids. No medical experience is needed! For more information
or to let us know you can help us help others, please contact Rays of
Hope at (616) 633-4258 or Kathy Kendall or email info@kcmsalliance.org. |
