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Creighton SOM, Phoenix
Our Work
What We Do
At Street Medicine Coalition, our focus is to deliver essential medical services directly to those experiencing homelessness and vulnerability on the streets. We strive to make a positive impact on the health and well-being of marginalized individuals by providing medical care, advocacy, and support services where they are needed most.
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Through Street Medicine Coalition, students will learn to learn together, serve together, care together, and advocate together.
Learn Together
SMC's goal is to equip students with a holistic understanding of homelessness in the community and raise awareness of the reality of being unhoused in Phoenix.
Students learn together through educational seminars and panels on a wide variety of topics including harm reduction, respite care, social and legal services, and mental health care. Students are given opportunities to participate in hands-on, clinical skills trainings such as wound care and glucometer use.
Serve Together
SMC's goal is to foster a sense of community and long-term commitment to service with unhoused individuals, beyond the clinical setting. SMC accomplishes this through Naloxone and wound care kit making with Sonoran Prevention Works, making sleeping mats with Homeless Matters and making heat relief kits.
Care Together
SMC's goal is to prepare students to provide high-quality and accessible healthcare services to individuals experiencing homelessness by “meeting them where they’re at” and strengthening their continuity of care. SMC engages in street runs with Street Medicine Phoenix, Heat Relief/Harm Reduction Outreach with Shot in the Dark and our new Creighton Health Clinic at the Saint Vincent de Paul dining rooms.
Advocate Together
SMC's goal is to provide students with avenues to reflect and respond to the injustices they encounter while working with the unhoused community via raising general awareness or shaping local policy. Students engage in advocacy through research opportunities, writing narrative pieces on ethics & justice issues, a humanities team, and grant writing.
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