Past Projects: 2004-2005

The MIKE Program received a $5000 award from the Hoover Family Foundation to devote to projects in the 2004-2005 academic year. The MIKE Program worked with coalitions and networks of educators and providers throughout the greater metropolitan area to identify and meet the community needs of healthy lifestyles through youth participation.

Select senior Health Occupations Programs students at Benson High School taught by Gillian Davis, RN, MAT were planning their health careers and focused on education and advocacy as they worked with the MIKE Program throughout the school year.

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The team at Benson makes a "working kidney"	Benson student-design tee-shirt
William M. Bennett, MD, Medical Director of Solid Organ and Cellular Transplantation at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in the classroom with students at Benson High School	Shopping at Value Village for parts for a "kidney"

As part of their health advocacy goals, the Benson High School students did strategic outreach with middle school students and their parents at Harriet Tubman Middle Schools SUN School with projects about public health issues. This was an exciting expansion of the MIKE Program Reach out, Reach back program. We hoped that it would provide a connection or a forum to renegotiate connection between middle school students and their families. The students and parents would be able better to support healthier choices at home and with their families.

For their project the senior students evaluated school readiness of pre-kindergarten children at Boise Eliot Elementary School. They hoped to start the children down a path of health by demonstrating nutrition and exercise habits through interactive play and modeling. They used video and surveys and observational research to document their efforts and they used some of the footage in an engaging and informative video to share with their peers and others.

Our project at CREATE (Creating Roads to Empowerment and Advancement Through Education) (Forest Grove alternative high school, Program Director, Carmen Wier) in classes taught by Geneva Jackson rounded out the MIKE Program projects for the 2004-2005. This year, the class started making a mural and planning an assembly to showcase their work.

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Students work on their mural	Jill Walker, RN, CNN, introduces students to dialysis at Raines Dialysis Center, Forest Grove
CREATE students team tee-shirt	Class time, Lael Seitz, classroom mentor

National Kidney Month, March:
We were pleased to join the National Kidney Disease Education Program (NKDEP) in educating people at risk by promoting the National Kidney Month website (www.nkdep.nih.gov/kidneymonth). National Kidney Month Web site contains information about kidney disease risk factors, testing and treatment.

Kidney disease affects more than 20 million Americans, and the numbers are rising. Millions more know they have diabetes and/or high blood pressure, but don’t know that these conditions put them at increased risk for kidney disease. We are working to change that by raising awareness about the risks, and encouraging people to talk to their doctor about getting tested.

March is National Kidney Month. Are you (or someone you love) at risk? Diabetes and high blood pressure are the two leading causes of kidney failure.

The MIKE Program wants you to know how to protect your kidneys.
(www.nkdep.nih.gov/kidneymonth)

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"Al Rogers, Principal at Tom McCall Upper Elementary School West in Forest Grove accepts a donation of booklets of health tips from David Flores, senior at CREATE High School in Forest Grove. The booklet, crafted by students in the MIKE Program class at CREATE in 2003—04, contains engaging text and age-appropriate cartoons. It is rendered on one side in English and on the other in Spanish. Printing and assembly donated by Printsync. Special thanks to teacher Janice Faccio and all the staff at CREATE who supported this project."

Academic Year 2004-2005