SHOW: Passion for Health, Compassion for People

Last year, almost 18,000 individuals experienced homelessness in Maricopa County alone. In Phoenix, health services available to this population are especially limited. Many people experiencing homelessness use community resources, such as those found at the Human Services Campus, while they coordinate employment and find a home. Currently, free healthcare services are only available to these people on the weekdays from 7am to 4pm. Patients have nowhere to go for primary care during the weekend, and end up having no choice but to go to urgent cares or the emergency department. This is inconvenient and can be very expensive.

We want to help bridge this gap.

SHOW is a student-run free clinic which is collaboration between Arizona’s three public universities: Arizona State University, Northern Arizona University, and The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix. Students from these universities work together, under faculty and provider supervision, to provide patient-centered healthcare services to the homeless on Saturdays, when care is usually not available.Us operating on the weekend gives our community’s most vulnerable population a range and quality of care not previously available to them. Weekly programs alongside the clinic will integrate health education into the patients’ clinical experiences, in order to help patients manage their own health.

We have come so far already - SHOW launched clinical operations as of July 2015, and has served over 120 patients since then and has organized community outreach events with community partners. Please help us continue to provide much needed services to those who need them most!