LSHP

The Latino Student Health Project (LSHP) at UCLA is a student-run organization that strives to reduce health disparities within medically underserved communities across Los Angeles County and Tecate, Mexico. LSHP hosts free health fairs and promotes preventative health education in order to increase access to health services in medically underserved communities and reduce the risk of chronic diseases within these populations. At our sites we provide free hypertension, anemia, glucose, cholesterol, and BMI screenings, consultations with providers, nutrition education, community resources, and distribute clothing, food, and hygiene items. At each health fair we have provider and nurse volunteers participate alongside student volunteers and assist with the screenings and consultations. Additionally, we team up with Midnight Mission, a shelter that provides housing and other services to people who are unhoused, every quarter by volunteering at their kitchen. To stay involved look out for sign ups in the LSHP slack and well as the LCCM slack.