Many of the 87 Jefferson employees who volunteered for The Presidents' Summit for America's Future pose on Scott Plaza steps before boarding buses transporting them to help clean up a six-mile stretch of historic Germantown Ave. The successful Sunday cleanup kicked off the three-day Summit, a wide-reaching, long-term effort to galvanize citizen involvement in community service geared to children and youth. Patricia Wallace, Manager, Volunteer Services and Patient Information, who coordinated Jefferson's Summit involvement, reports a dramatic surge in phone calls from citizens wanting to volunteer at Jefferson. "We've sent out about 100 applications in response to calls we received after the Summit. From this number, we expect to get at least 40 new volunteers," says Ms. Wallace.

As part of Jefferson's outreach to the Asian American community, the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Chinese Community Partnership for Health provided a Chinese Medical Practices training workshop for staff and employees. At left, trainer Le-Linh Diep-Hoang of the Intercultural Family Services converses with three participants at the beginning of the workshop. From left are Huan Qin Ye, Chinatown Community Liaison, Nursing Service; Janice Wan, a University of Pennsylvania social work student; and Yen Trinh, RN, Chinatown Community Liaison, Nursing Service. The workshop was supported by a grant from the Family Planning Council. Jefferson's Chinese Community Partnership for Health is developing a community-based partnership program to provide health education, outreach, prenatal care and case management services to Philadelphia's Chinese population, many of whom reside near Jefferson. Related activities include an obstetrics/gynecologic clinic for Chinese women held every Wednesday evening at Jefferson, and a five-session series of childbirth classes starting June 3. Huan Qin Ye will teach those classes at Jefferson in both Mandarin and Cantonese. Says Joan U. Bretschneider, RN, PhD, Director of Special Projects, "Our goal is to provide outreach to all Asian communities. From these current activities we hope to develop a model for the future."