Volunteer Testimonials
WHAT OUR STUDENTS HAVE TO SAY
The Family Van works with medical education institutions to provide medical and allied health students with supervised rotations aboard the Van to help inspire and train the next generation of family healthcare providers. The Family Van team also trains a number of its own volunteers on how to give compassionate care and how to approach important social aspects of health care.
Marriane Cella was an intern from the Medical Clinical Program at Gibbs College. She comments, “My time working with The Family Van was nothing less than amazing … The Family Van staff really is like a family. They changed my perception on healthcare forever.”
“My exposure on The Family Van laid an excellent foundation for my future as a health care professional. My experiences on the Van have made me more aware of my own worldview and my attitude towards other cultures. At the Van site in Codman Square, I was seeing people from Haiti, Jamaica and Trinidad to name a few. Every encounter taught me something new about my clients and the information helped me provide appropriate health education for the various conditions they were coping with. I am much more culturally competent today than before I started my internship.”
