VIDEO A Celebration of Voices: Inspiring Stories from the Inside-Out
Inside-Out Trainers, speakers, and formerly incarcerated students John Pace, Jesse Dorsz, April Lee, Kenny Matthews, Giovanni Reid, and Joe Schwartz, beautifully express the spirit of Inside-Out — the importance of breaking down walls, the power of dialogue, the discovery of one’s voice, and the humility, openness, and empathy that are integral to the Inside-Out journey.
Hear from them now!
Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program is a community partner of the Lewis & Clark College Center for Community and Global Health. This partnership is made possible by a grant from the Andrew. W. Mellon Foundation, Healing Social Suffering Through Narrative.
Community and Global Health is located in room 307 and 309 of JR Howard Hall on the Undergraduate Campus.
MSC: 25
email communityglobalHEAL@lclark.edu
voice 503-768-7636
Jerusha Detweiler-Bedell
Director
jerusha@lclark.edu
Carolyn L. Zook
Associate Director and Pre-Health Advisor
carolynzook@lclark.edu
Alexis Rehrmann
Community Engagement Coordinator
alexisr@lclark.edu
Community and Global Health
Lewis & Clark
615 S. Palatine Hill Road
Portland OR 97219
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Come to Narrative Medicine Skills Training!
With support from the Mellon Foundation, Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative (NWNMC) is developing Narrative Medicine Skills Training.
Narrative Medicine Skills Training introduces the narrative medicine principles of attention, representation, and affiliation and develops participant skills of listening and witnessing. We will reflect on how listening and witnessing can be applied to stories of health, illness and healing in diverse healthcare settings to improve care and support healing.
Training is open to students, health professionals, faculty, staff and community members– anyone curious about the practice of narrative medicine.
Narrative Medicine Skills Training
Saturday, February, 22
8:45-3:30
in-person and on-campus
Smith Hall
Lewis & Clark College
Register Here

Health Coverage: How Potential Providence Strike Impacts Patients
Carolyn Zook, Associate Director at the L&C Center for Community and Global Health is featured in this KGW8 story on the possibility of healthcare strikes in Oregon. She shares her expertise alongside L&C Law School Prof. Keith Cunningham-Parmeter
WATCH HERE

Experiential Learning
Health + Humanities Internships = Impact
The Center for Community and Global Health offers funding for health and humanities internships with Portland-area partners. Whether over the summer or during the school year, L&C students benefit from paid internships that turn career exploration into action.