Service to Others
Humanics in Action
Each year, Springfield College students, faculty, and staff participate in Humanics in Action Day, where they participate in service projects throughout the community. The day brings the College community together to help better the community around them.
Pride Cares
The Pride Cares peer-to-peer program offers a unique opportunity for our students to receive training so they can serve as support for other students who may be experiencing a mental health challenge. The program aligns with our Humanics philosophy of service to others. The training helps the students to better understand mental health, such as depression and anxiety, and to identify warning signs and learn how to connect with their peers who need the help.
Occupational Therapy Adulting Academy
Students in the Occupational Therapy (OT) program can take their educational lessons learned inside the classroom and put them into action when participating in the Adulting Academy on campus each April. The Adulting Academy focuses on helping young adults (between the ages of 18 and 25) from the local community develop life skills to prepare for adulthood. The program is run by second-year graduate OT students and is supervised by OT faculty. OT students lead participants in various group and individual workshops based on their interests and goals. The program is important for OT students because of the level-one fieldwork experience it provides.
Physical Therapy and Community Mobility Clinic
With Springfield College offering free physical therapy services to people in the local community living with mobility issues, and who face economic challenges, they aren’t the only ones who benefit. Our students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy program work with these individuals to provide clinical services and develop educational offerings. These kinds of opportunities help the students prepare for future leadership roles, among many other benefits. The students are supervised by our faculty members, who are licensed physical therapists.
AmeriCorps
Through the AmeriCorps Program, you can serve in schools (grades K through 12), where you can facilitate interventions targeting risk factors that lead to dropping out of school, low attendance, behavioral/disciplinary issues, and course failure.
Fall Prevention Clinic
Many experiential learning opportunities offered to Springfield College students benefit local community members. The annual Fall Prevention Clinic is one such example. Second-year Physical Therapy (PT) and Occupational Therapy (OT) graduate students have the opportunity to provide fall risk assessments for community members in the Brown Cooper Health Sciences Center. The students take what they learned in the state-of-the-art simulation lab in the fall semester and apply it to a real-world setting in the clinic in the spring. Students screen participants for their balance and fall risk and, if appropriate, will recommend medical care. The benefits to students are many, including learning to connect with patients and working with faculty to assess the best options for the participant.
