Project HOPE is seeking qualified, Spanish-speaking volunteers to support clinical and community health initiatives. The Monte Plata, Herrera, and Haina clinics in the Dominican Republic provide quality primary health care services to underserved populations, featuring the "5 Star Program," a Ministry of Health-approved and nationally recognized program developed as an innovative strategy to promote patient awareness and compliance during pregnancy and throughout the first five years of life. The HOPE program serves a population of nearly 500,000 (approximately 5% of the country) and focuses on essential health services. The 5 Star Program can be summarized as an inexpensive way to improve care quality that is easy to monitor; an excellent way to educate pregnant women, mothers and the community at-large on a vitally important subject; and an effective means to empower and motivate mothers to serve as role models for others. Volunteer opportunities may include supporting the "5 Stars" Maternal and Child Health program or other clinical services and community health programs offered via the two primary care clinics.

Once you are approved, specific goals and objectives will be developed to meet the needs of the clinic and communities while engaging the specific skills of the volunteer.

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One year training from Kubati clinic has not been sufficient to build capacities within Ophthalmology Clinic in UCCK to continue such a service. At this stage there are few doctors, who under some supervision, can do the screening but not lasering. There is an immediate need to provide supervisory/mentorship support to doctors at OC until they become independent in continuing ROP screening for newborns.