We continue to spotlight IS & RESO caregivers across our regions who are contribution in their local communities through Mission service.
Please contact your local Mission integration director for more information on how you can get involved or any of the volunteers listed in our articles. Our Mission integration directors also would love to hear how you’ve volunteered or served the Mission in ways big and small in your community.
Southern California IS
Judy Kupchin, Clinical Informatics training manager, Peggy Hitchcock, CI operations assistant, and Jenny Cheng, sr. infrastructure program manager joined Sister Louise Ann Micek, CSJ, of the Sister of St. Joseph of Orange, for a day of (masked) community service. They delivered homemade blankets and scarves to the Illumination Foundation, a charity focused on ending the cycle of homelessness, taking part in a call for service from the St. Joseph Justice Center.
A Caregiver’s Service in Oregon
Russell Hawke, Epic client applications engineer, is a shining example of how to be involved in our local communities. His service has included litter pick-up along the riverfront in Albany, work with the city’s parks and recreation, public work, and police departments, and projects focused on his area’s most poor and vulnerable. His mother is also involved with a heritage of Catholic charity, volunteering with Albany’s St. Mary’s parish prayer shawl group, who helps provide shawls to those in need. If you know someone in need of a shawl in Oregon, let him know!
Several articles featuring Russell’s volunteerism:
Story Next Door: Albany’s Trashman shows the virtues of cleanliness (Albany Democrat-Herald, Feb. 2019)
Trash patrol: One man’s quest to tidy up (Hasso Herring Today, Oct. 2020)