Special Event: All-Day Orientation 9 am – 5 pm, The United Way (Houston, TX).
Skill Building Series and Best Practices for Fellows Series – ASFHG Staff.

Mandatory in-person for all Fellows

Special Event: Evening of Difference (Poster presentation and graduation of Fellows, welcoming of all new Fellows). 250 Stakeholders attend, light bites (Houston, TX).

In-person, no virtual option

Monthly Meeting: 6 – 8 pm (Virtual)
Best Practices – Public Health, Peer Mentoring.

1. National Convening of Fellows – 270 Fellows from around the country are divided into health tracks for networking and sharing of resources.
2. ASFHG Public Health Training – Developing a logic model as a tool to plan, implement, and evaluate public health programs; Speaker: Joanna Hawkins, MPH, Junior Fellow Program Director

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Best Practices and Peer Mentoring

1. Assessing the needs of the community to build a public health program; Speaker: Carol Jacob, MPH, CHES, ASFHG Program Director & DEI Coordinator
2. Media training; Speaker: Kayla Semien, Director of Marketing, New Hope Housing
3. Wisdom of Your Peers

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Best Practices

1. The Relevance of Structural Competence on Health and Well-Being; Speaker: Dr. Kelechi Wright, PhD, LCPC, Assistant Professor at the University of Houston Department of African American Studies

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Skill Building – Communication and Peer Mentoring

1. Developing an elevator pitch and networking; Speaker: Dr. Andrea Link, MD, ASFHG Executive Director
2. Advice for new Fellows, and learning from Fellows For Life (FFLs) experiences; Speaker: Dr. David Savage, MD, ASFHG FFL / Scripps Health
3. ASFHG FFL Panel

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Skill Building Series – Leadership

1. Building trust with communities through understanding impact, active listening, and open communication; Speaker: Judy Le, President, TakeRoot Leadership Consulting and Coaching

Special Event: Celebration of Service Luncheon at Amegy Tower (Houston, TX) Optional, in-person only.

Monthly Meeting: 6 – 8 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Best Practices – Human Rights

1. Working for Equity and Justice: Exploring critical and compassionate practices for personal growth and social change through advocacy, policy, and community action; Speaker: Pancho Argüelles, Senior Director of Network and Power Building at The Praxis Project
2. Wisdom of Your Peers

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Skill Building – Leadership

1. Adaptive Leadership; Speaker: Judy Le, President, TakeRoot Leadership Consulting and Coaching

Special Event: 6 – 8 pm, Schweitzer Soiree with the Board at Dr. Link’s House (in-person)
Skill Building – Communication and Networking

Special Event: Winter Symposium 8:30 am – 12 pm (in-person and virtual)
Skill Building – Communication and Networking, Peer Mentoring

Fellows present an update on their projects at a conference-style morning with stakeholders in attendance

Monthly Meeting: 6:30 – 8:30 pm (in person with virtual option for out of town Fellows only, satellite location in Galveston)
Skill Building – Self Care, Peer Mentoring

1. Healthy habits and meditation, FFL-led yoga session; Speaker: Shadhi Mansoori, MD/MPH Student at McGovern Medical School, ASFHG FFL
2. Wisdom of Your Peers

Monthly Meeting: TBD (in-person only)

​Service Learning Day

Special Event: Evening of Difference TBD