HOSA EMagazine WINTER 2021

TWO HANDS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

HOSA-Future Health Professionals have learned, lead, served and innovated this past year. We know it has been a difficult year not being able to meet and hang out with our HOSA friends but now, more than ever, it’s important for us to find ways to connect. Through virtual chapter connections, partnering with the HOSA Service Project: Be the Match, and working with your state associations, we can come together to help build a better tomorrow. Together, HOSA members can help foster a close-knit community in a new time of innovation and change. A time when we, as future health professionals, can work together to help those who have lost loved ones in the pandemic and to create new solutions to challenging healthcare problems. As the saying goes, “two hands are better than one,” and two HOSA members (or chapters!) are better than one. HOSA, our time is now to be the change we want to see in the world! Connect with other local chapters, meet other HOSA members, and create partnerships to help people around the world.

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Ideas for member connections

• Zoom socials • Play games in breakout rooms to create more intimate connections • Have “speed friending” events allowing members to meet one another • Challenge members to create and share presentations on topics that interest them • Create Group Me chats with other local members and officers • Connect with other competitors at your virtual SLC to make study buddies!

Ideas for connecting with other chapters:

• Host virtual events • Raise awareness for HOSA’s service Project or causes you believe in • Host a virtual Be the Match swab drive with chapters in your county or district to increase the donor registry • Have local chapter game nights for HOSA members to take a break from school • Create regional groups to brainstorm how you can work as a region to further HOSA’s mission • Host a college info night for all chapter seniors to learn tips and tricks for applying to college • Meet new chapter leaders at virtual conferences to create lasting friendships where you can • Host mock competitions • Have networking events for your chapter’s members • Invite healthcare professionals to speak to both chapters’ members • Create a community that expands beyond your local high school and supports one another

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