Lois Thetford, a physician’s assistant in the UW’s MEDEX Northwest program, is currently developing a course for the UW’s Health Sciences program that focuses on homelessness.
The two-credit class will be offered during winter 2017 and will feature input from staff members of the health sciences. The class will explore homelessness through various lenses, such as “homelessness and racism,” to give students a better understanding of the reality of homelessness for those that live it.
Thetford has been working to provide and improve resources for Seattle’s homeless citizens since the 1980s through community health, and helped establish the Fremont Women’s Clinic, now known as the 45th Street Clinic.
“Our goal has always been that homeless individuals, whatever their age or background, have a right to quality care,” Thetford said. “And not just primary care, but specialty services as well.”
[For more of this story, written by Mallory Culbertson, go to http://www.dailyuw.com/news/ar...ba-7f4b474d29e7.html]
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