Career Development & Networking
UMMI serves refugee mothers and incarcerated mothers, as well as other women in marginalized communities. We dedicate services and hold volunteer events for motherhood, maternity health, and pregnant women, specifically in the incarcerated and refugee communities. Through collaborations, we create events and volunteer opportunities in the fields of healthcare, education, and cultural competency. Events include trainings to be certified to provide support to Refugee Mothers in labor, transporting refugee mothers to doctor’s appointments and advocate for her through interpretations and clarifications, fundraising and packaging items for incarcerated mothers and women, and leading discussions with guest speakers of different organizations and backgrounds. We will have the “Little Readers” program, where trained students will go to incarceration facilities that house mothers separated from their children. We will collect children’s books to bring to the facility, and film mothers reading a children’s book. We will then send the same video and children’s book (with handwritten notes from the mom) to the mother’s child. These experiences will be not only rewarding for our undergraduate students, but also eye-opening into the field of activism, healthcare, literacy, and the motherhood experience, as interested students will likely delve into careers of public health, medicine, law, literacy, advising, social work, and more.
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# Service
# Philanthropy
# and Civic Engagement
# Undergraduate Student Life
# Multi - cultural
# Pre - professional
