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• A Day on the Farm

  • When
    Fri, August 09, 2024
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    9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  • Location
    Marion Polk Food Share Youth Farm
  • Registered
    7 registrants

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  Be a farmer for a day!

  
  

  Join us for a volunteer activity at the Marion Polk Food Share Youth Farm.  We will be helping the kids who are growing crops to help raise nutritious foods for families in need.  So, bring your boots and gloves. At the end of the morning we will be served a healthy snack by the youth farm volunteers. This is a "kid friendly" activity!  They can accommodate up to 20 volunteers.  

  Friday, August 9
  9 am - Noon
  Marion Polk Food Share Youth Farm

  Flyer. Pass them out! MPFS Youth Farm.pdf

  What to Bring:

  Light work clothes, boots, gloves, sunscreen, water. It could be a hot day by the end of the morning, so wear layers. 

  Location:

  On the Chemeketa Community College main campus in Northeast Salem. Farm address is 4320 Winema Place, NE. Turn onto Winema Place NE off Lancaster and drive past MAPs Credit Union. Follow that road until the sharp bend and continue to drive straight, onto a gravel road. Pass through the gate and the Youth Farm is at the end of that road. If the small parking area is full, you may park along the gravel road.

  
  

  Volunteers help tend crops at the Marion Polk Food Share Youth Farm.

  
  

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• Marion-Polk Food Share Volunteer Day

  • When
    Tue, September 17, 2024
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    12:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Marion Polk Food Share, 1660 Salem Industrial Dr NE, Salem, OR 97301

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  Marion Polk County Medical Society Invites You...

  Marion Polk Food Share

  Volunteer Day
  

  Tuesday, September 17, 2024
  At the Marion Polk Food Share

  Join us for an evening of volunteering at Marion Polk Food Share! We will be sorting food and helping with whatever MPFS needs for a few hours in the evening. Feel free to bring your family members that are over the age of 13. We are looking to recruit a maximum of 15 people. 

  Start time: 12:30 pm (Food share has asked everyone to come right at 4:00. No late arrivals please. The activity lasts about 2 hours until 3:30.

  Address for Marion Polk Food Share: 1660 Salem Industrial Dr NE, Salem, OR 97301. (503) 581-3855

  
  

  Information for Volunteers:  For food safety and general safety requirements, volunteers should wear closed-toe and closed-heel shoes, and shirts with sleeves (long or short sleeves are fine – no tank tops).  We also ask that volunteers remove all removeable jewelry, watches, and earbuds prior to volunteering to keep the food we are repacking safe for our neighbors. (Flat ring bands are fine but any ring that could tear through a vinyl glove should be removed.)

  The breakroom will be available to leave cell phones, water bottles, snacks, jackets, or other personal items during the shift. There is no eating, drinking, or chewing gum in the warehouse.

  We will need to designate a group leader to sign-in at the computer station before volunteering and sign-out afterward. The group sign in PIN is: 7201658

  Some projects may require volunteers to wear hair nets, aprons, gloves. (All provided by the Food Share.)

  
  

  
  

  
  

  
  

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• Fall Member Meeting and Dinner

  • When
    Thu, October 03, 2024
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    5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    The Reed Ballroom 189 Liberty St NE, 3rd floor, Salem, OR
  • Registered
    15 registrants

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  Marion Polk Medical Society invites members and guests to join us for our Fall Member Meeting and Dinner

   
  

  Keynote speaker:  Karen Spears Zacharius, Author of The Murder Gene and No Perfect Mothers

  October 3, 2024 / 5:30 pm - 8:30 pm
  

  The Reed Ballroom
  189 Liberty St NE, 3rd floor, Salem, OR - Website

  
  

  Join us for a time of socializing and engagement with members of MPCMS. 

  Cost: The event is FREE to Medical Society members and guests. Nonmember registration is $75. We can't wait to see you there!  

  Childcare provided! We will have activities and a dinner for children under the age of 12. 

  Agenda

  5:30 - 6:30 - Social Hour with appetizers and a bar with beer and wine. 
  6:30 - 7:15 - Dinner buffet
  7:15 - 7:30 - Announcements
  7:30 - 8:15 - Karen Spears Zacharius, with moderated Q&A

  Sponsors: Have a display table and 2 registrations at the event. Cost is $650. 

  Want to read the books? The Medical Society has a book club this summer. Choose which book you'd like to read. Book club members will hold a social event with book discussion time. Dr. Erin Hurley will lead the group reading No Perfect Mothers. Dr. Nancy Boutin will lead the group reading The Murder Gene. Books are free. Click here to join the book club!

  
  

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• Cultural Humility

  • When
    Sat, October 19, 2024
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Salem Health, Building C , 1st Floor-Rooms A/B/C, Salem, OR

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  Cultural Humility
  Plus 2 AMA PRA Category 1 CME credits

  Saturday, October 19,  2024
  Salem Health Building C , 1st Floor-Rooms A/B/C
  Speaker: Amanda Wheeler Kay, NIMA Love of Humanity

  Agenda

  12:30 -1:00 pm - Registration, Gather
  1:00 - 3:00 pm - Seminar (short break in the middle)
  3:00 - 3:30 pm - Socializing

  Registration

  Please register through Salem Health. (Link TBD) or call Salem Health at 503-814-2775. Sponsored in collaboration by Salem Health and the Marion-Polk County Medical Society

  Questions?

  Contact April Gavin, Salem Health 503-814-2777

  Description: MPCMS is coordinating this 2-hour session. The course is designed to meet the requirements of cultural competency training for healthcare providers. The seminar is designed to meet Oregon Administrative Rule (OAR) 847-008-0077 that requires “cultural or linguistic immersion, volunteering in a rural clinic, completing an employer’s cultural competency training, a training on implicit bias in health care, attending an event with members of an underserved community to discuss health care access issues, or courses approved by the Oregon Health Authority.”

  Learning Objectives: At the end of this education participants will be able to:

  1. Name their personal values and consider how they fit in with dominant values;

  2. Explain key concepts such as cultural humility and implicit bias, and identify impacts on our attitudes

  and behaviors; and

  3. Practice strategies for improving communication with patients / colleagues

  Accreditation:

  The Salem Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The Salem Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activy.

  Who should attend: MD, DO, NP and PA's.

  Cost: MPCMS members $50. Non-members of the Medical Society may also attend for $100.

  Instructor: Amanda Wheeler-Kay is a bilingual social worker and community interpreter who has worked in the Portland area for over fifteen years. She is co-chair of the education and training committee of the Oregon Council on Health Care Interpreters, an advisory council to the OHA. Her session will focus on recognizing and overcoming communication barriers with patients and families whose values and norms that may not conform to those in the dominant culture.

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