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Victory Junction

Victory Junction is a summer camp that caters to children with serious illnesses. They believe that every child, no matter their diagnosis, should enjoy normal childhood experiences. It’s a place where children, whose lives are filled with limitations and boundaries, face fun challenges and discover just how much they can do. The first week I volunteered we accommodated for campers with spina bifida, immunology, skin diseases, burn survivors, and other endocrinology conditions. Campers with sickle cell, anemia, and bleeding disorders came the second week. The third week campers with heart, lung, kidney, and immunological diseases were apart of the camp magic. I loved it so much I returned summer of 2017.

Entrance to Victory Junction	Chalk welcoming kids to camp	NASCARnival
Western Day	Archery	Special Acticity
Arcade building

Joni & Friends Internship

Summer of 2017 I was a part of a three week internship with Joni & Friend's Cause 4 Life program in Tianjin, China. Joni and Friends is an organization with the mission to disciple and support those affected by disabilities. Cause 4 Life is just one aspect of the organization. Other areas include local and international family retreats along with a wheels for the world initiative. Our team served at Shepherds Field Children’s Village (SFCV), which is a temporary home for orphans that are not eligible for adoption due to a disability. Once the children receive their needed surgery or other medical treatments, they are matched with their forever families. During the internship, I observed the different educational and medical services offered to the orphans as they awaited adoption. We also attended a hippotherapy session and learned about the multitude of benefits this type of horse therapy provides for individuals affected by physical and/or mental disabilities.

Therapy activities Here are many therapy activities our team made and brought with us	Therapy Room This is where physical and occupational therapy sessions took place.	Water Therapy
School This is Molly working on an activity we brought.	Having too much fun	House mom training session We developed a behavioral management plan that would be implemented during school, home time, and therapy. Here we are training the house nannies how to follow this plan.
Health Promotion I usually worked with Ling Ling and Xander in the mornings. We established an exercise routine, learned how to properly brush our teeth, provided individualized schooling.	Lenard	Hope Ranch We observed a hippo therapy session and connected with local disability awareness groups.
Interactive therapy activities	Free time Reading with MoMo during free time.	Ling Ling Ling Ling and I are preparing and tasting different types of fruits and vegetables here. This is a part of the health promotion initiative we assisted SFCV with.
Kids helping prepare dinner	Celebration Many of the school-aged children during a celebration.	Oscar
Tyler	Teamwork Organizing therapy supplies and donated toys.

Scleroderma Patient Education Conference

Scleroderma is a rare autoimmune, rheumatic, and chronic disease, causing an overproduction of collagen and hardening of skin and connective tissue. The keynote speaker of this conference was Dr. Janet Poole, a professor and director of the Occupational Therapy Graduate Program at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She focused on common symptoms and obstacles patients with scleroderma face, while also providing practical advice for managing pain and advocating for insurance. I welcomed and checked patients in, listened to lectures, and tried some therapies myself.

Complete Summary

Aspiring OT Clemson students	The Scleroderma Patient Education Conference was held at MUSC	Brochures for patients
Student volunteers preparing snacks for session breaks	Dr. Janet Poole demonstrating therapy exercises to stretch target area such as the fingers, shoulders, and mouth.	Dr. Sundar, spoke on the benefits of yogic breathing and stretching for scleroderma. His research focused on how these practices increase helpful proteins in saliva and decrease stress.

Victory Junction

Entrance to Victory Junction

Chalk welcoming kids to camp

NASCARnival

Western Day

Archery

Special Acticity

Arcade building

Joni & Friends Internship

Therapy activities

Here are many therapy activities our team made and brought with us

Therapy Room

This is where physical and occupational therapy sessions took place.

Water Therapy

School

This is Molly working on an activity we brought.

Having too much fun

House mom training session

We developed a behavioral management plan that would be implemented during school, home time, and therapy. Here we are training the house nannies how to follow this plan.

Health Promotion

I usually worked with Ling Ling and Xander in the mornings. We established an exercise routine, learned how to properly brush our teeth, provided individualized schooling.

Lenard

Hope Ranch

We observed a hippo therapy session and connected with local disability awareness groups.

Interactive therapy activities

Free time

Reading with MoMo during free time.

Ling Ling

Ling Ling and I are preparing and tasting different types of fruits and vegetables here. This is a part of the health promotion initiative we assisted SFCV with.

Kids helping prepare dinner

Celebration

Many of the school-aged children during a celebration.

Oscar

Tyler

Teamwork

Organizing therapy supplies and donated toys.

Scleroderma Patient Education Conference

Aspiring OT Clemson students

The Scleroderma Patient Education Conference was held at MUSC

Brochures for patients

Student volunteers preparing snacks for session breaks

Dr. Janet Poole demonstrating therapy exercises to stretch target area such as the fingers, shoulders, and mouth.

Dr. Sundar, spoke on the benefits of yogic breathing and stretching for scleroderma. His research focused on how these practices increase helpful proteins in saliva and decrease stress.

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