YSN in the Community
Today, YSN is recognized throughout Greater New Haven for its role in improving the health of our local community, especially among the community's most vulnerable populations, for providing health education and mentorship in public schools, for advancing diversity training and education throughout Yale University, and for increasing opportunities for high school students to pursue university education and careers in the allied health sciences. In many of these initiatives, YSN has partnered with the Yale Office of New Haven and State Affairs, and continues to provide a broad range of resources to the greater Yale University community in improving the quality of life in New Haven and in the State of Connecticut.
In addition to being involved in the School-sponsored community partnerships, the majority of our faculty, students and staff also volunteer at institutions and not for profit organizations where they live and work. Their dedication to community service and their wealth of local, regional and international expertise enables YSN to continue to provide leadership in nursing education, research and clinical practice.
Student Diversity Action Committee
SDAC is the student arm of DAC, and works to make YSN a safe space for students
of all backgrounds. SDAC comes together
to discuss concerns, needs, and
accomplishments surrounding issues of
diversity, including race, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, both in the community and in
healthcare. Recent events include community health fairs, a neighborhood clean-up, guest lecturers, and conferences.
 Learn how to get involved in the SDAC newsletter, The Outreacher: Issue 1 (.pdf) | Issue 2 (.pdf) | Issue 3 (.pdf)
Community Action Makes for Healthy Neighbors
 YSN's Student Diversity Action Committee is taking action to improve the health of its neighbors. Members of SDAC joined forces with a coalition of student volunteers from across Yale to put on a health fair at a housing project located one block from YSN. The Community Health Fair drew 140 New Haven residents and volunteers from 15 area health and community groups. Full story.
Brandon Ko '10 Received 2009 YSN Community Service Award
 YSN student Brandon Ko '10 was presented the 2009 YSN Community Service Award. YSN Dean Margaret Grey presented Ko with the award: "Despite a heavy academic workload in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner specialty, this student has contributed a great deal to the Yale University and New Haven communities. Working within this community, he has also developed afterschool activities, a health promotion program for youth and is developing an adolescent mentoring program." Full story.
Professor Helps Students Produce Teen Pregnancy Prevention PSAs
 In her role as co-chair of the New Haven Mayor John DeStefano's "Teen Pregnancy Prevention Council," YSN Associate Professor Alison Moriarty Daley worked with local high school students as they prepared video public service announcements for city-wide distribution. New Haven public school students developed and produced all aspects of the videos, including "Boy Swap," a role reversal in which a teen boy becomes pregnant and then is ditched by his girlfriend. Watch the videos here.
An Entryway into the Health Care System
 Student-run HAVEN Clinic is helping thousands of New Haven Residents in need.
It is a point of institutional pride that so many students joining Yale's health care community arrive already well equipped with these sterling qualities. Still, as they say, it ain't what you've got, it's what you do with what you've got that really matters. There will always be people who glance at a problem from afar and mutter, "Something should be done." But then there are those remarkable people who see a problem and run toward it declaring, "I must do something." And this is where our story begins . . .Full story.
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