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Class
Projects
Free Counseling Services
IWU’s Graduate Counseling program provides our community
with free counseling services. One such program is a cooperative
effort with the Grant County Mentoring Mothers program.
The director of the local YWCA’s Thornburg House, a
mentoring and educational home for young mothers, shared with
the leadership of IWU’s Graduate Counseling program
their need for more counseling services for their mothers.
Through the free service IWU’s Graduate Counseling
students provide to the women at the Thornburg house, they
are given the opportunity and privilege to use what they have
learned before they graduate to help these mothers during
a time in their lives when they need help the most.
Robie’s Angels
One of the most practical assignments students were given by
Dr. Jim Lo in their Evangelism and Cross Cultural Ministries
class was to make contact with an older person and spend time
listening to them. Sarah Henson (Anderson, Ind.), Tracey Lanning
(Grant, Mich.) and Sadie McCurdy (Guys Mills, Penn.), volunteered
to visit an elderly couple in Marion going through health problems.
Their caring hearts and loving attention would have gone unnoticed
except for the following wonderful letter of appreciation Mr.
Robie sent to the school;
“This note is to congratulate you on a program or suggestion
of yours to encourage IWU students to adopt a neighborhood
block and make friends with the school’s neighbors.
We, Mrs. Robie and I, are the recipients of that program.
Three lovely, young ladies have visited us as part of that
program, and we were indeed surprised and pleased with their
visits. Mrs. Robie has terminal cancer and was very pleased
and impressed with these fine young ladies—and too—I
must say—I am also impressed with that program.
These fine, young ladies even visited me at the hospital
while I was recovering from back surgery—and brought
me goodies in the form of brownies—which they made—from
scratch I assume. Our own children live in distant cities
and are unable to visit too often. Therefore—we in our
eighties—do welcome young people in our lives.
I cannot compliment these ladies enough for their cheer and
the laughter they brought into our lives. You indeed do have
a good program—keep up the effort.
Thank you girls. You are wonderful.”
Chester and Kathryn Robie
Nursing students at St. Martin
Community Center
St. Martin’s Executive Director and alumna of IWU, Vivienne
Drake, has identified hypertension and diabetes as two primary
areas of concern for many of St. Martin’s clients. Her
dilemma was how to bring health exam services to the Center
so her clients could be screened, and those with warning signs
could be directed to the local health clinics and resources
for further exam and treatment.
Now IWU nursing students enrolled in practicum classes commit
eleven hours of service at the Center each month, and giving
free health screenings and other basic health services to
its clients.
“Everyone needs a little help sometimes,” said
Amy Seagrave (Mars, Penn.). “The people are willing
to talk. Even though it is hard to relate to a lot of what
they struggle with, I try to look at them through Jesus’
eyes.”
Within the first few visits to the community center, nursing
students detected a case of extremely high blood pressure,
helped access funding to fill a prescription, and showed people
with diabetes how to use self-testing at home. Students also
reviewed the menu offered to St. Martin’s patrons and
made recommendations for improvements.
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