DREAM - Driving Resilience through Empowerment, Advocacy, Mentorship

Driving Resilience through Empowerment, Advocacy, and Mentorship (DREAM) is a student organization at the David Geffen School of Medicine that brings together UCLA medical students, undergraduates, and medical faculty to empower historically minoritized youth. As a key partner of Gardena High School's new Medical Emergency Services Academy (MESA), DREAM has worked closely with Gardena High School to provide medical and clinical skills training on ultrasound, clinical problem solving, and life-saving measures such as Stop the Bleed and overdose reversal. These trainings are critical, not only because they empower underserved youth to pursue careers in health medicine and slowly add to the mosaic of representation, but also because they propagate life-saving information throughout communities neglected by systems of healthcare and health education.

jesalcedo@mednet.ucla.edu

Signatories: Van Nguyen, Christopher Dann, and Janet Hwang

Advisor: Pamela R Cysner