MY COMMUNITY HEALTH ROTATION
Charity Awards Dinner
Mental Health California
During my Community Health Rotation I volunteered at Mental Health California and participated in the Charity Awards Dinner. I volunteered in event planning, secured donations for beverages, and also volunteered on the event evening.
Our 2018 honorees included Dr. Richard Pan, State Senator, California's 6th Senate District for the “Legislator of the Year Award”; Sergio Aguilar-Gaxiola, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine at the University of California at Davis, and Founding Director of the UC Davis Center for Reducing Health Disparities for the “Research & Health Disparities Award,” and Yvonnia Brown, MSW, Behavioral Health and Recovery Services Director/Deputy Public Guardian/Conservator, Merced County Department of Behavioral Health for the “County Behavioral Health Leadership Award.”