Community Service

Catalog description

In keeping with the Touro University mission to serve the larger community, students in the School of Health Sciences are required to complete a community service that involves a minimum of twenty-five (25) hours of community service. The purpose of this requirement is to (1) demonstrate professional behaviors and communication; (2) provide students in the School of Health Sciences with an opportunity to learn from, and give back to, the larger community; and (3) enhance awareness of how a disability or illness impacts the individual, family, friends, caregivers, and community. Through this experience, students may interact with people from different cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds, with people who have impairments leading to functional limitations in the physical, cognitive, and/or social-emotional domains, or with people experiencing poverty, homelessness and hunger.