Ways To Get Involved and Improve Your Local SAA Chapter!
Community Involvement
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- Host a day camp for those with hearing loss
- Get involved with Special Olympics Healthy Hearing
- Sponsor a Thanksgiving food drive
- Go to a Children's Museum and teach children how to protect their hearing. Incorporate games about the ear. Teach them the importance of wearing earplugs
- Engage in Habitat for Humanity activities
- Volunteer at al local food shelter
- Contact a local schools and give a presentation to a science or health class about ears and hearing
- Conduct hearing screenings at a community health fair and provide resources about hearing loss as well as hearing conservation
- Speak at a local Lions Club, Sertoma, or other service club in the community
- Create a Jolene mannequin to teach children about noise exposure
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Advocacy
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- Go to your local Legislative office and push for Direct Access
- Host an "Advocacy Afternoon" on a Friday. Order some pizza, play some music, and get together to write letters/send e-mails to your Congressman.
- Create an advocacy challenge between your AuD classes to see who can write the most letters, donate to the PAC, or visit your local legislative office
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Fundraising
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- Sell tickets for your major league baseball team
- Work concession stands at sporting functions
- Sell re-usable grocery bags
- Host a bake sale
- Restaurant fundraising: Hand out
"Support SAA" tickets. Present those tickets at a restaurant you have paired up with and 15-20% of all bills goes towards SAA chapter
- Get your chapter members together and have a yard sale
- Help plan a "fun run" or 5K in your area
- Set-up an SAA Cafe in your student lounge and sell drinks and snacks
- Host a student-faculty lunch and sell tickets for $10
- Create SAA chapter t-shirts or mugs to sell to students, faculty, and staff
- Local gun club
- Hearing protection
- Do they have charity events?
- Contact earmold company
- Custom and instamolds
- Daycare Hearing Screenings
- Permission slip sent to day cares to go home with parents
- $10
- Good practice for audiology students
- Get first year students involved in screenings
- 2x/year
- Flyers for swim molds
- (Ear)Resistable wristbands
- Sell to community, students, local audiologists
- "I support Direct Access" wristbands
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Social
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- 3rd Year send off party
- 1st year welcome picnic (Host a "Scavenger Hunt" that helps 1st year students locate key places in your university and/or department)
- Get together at a local bar/restaurant and watch your University's sport team
- Plan a picnic at a local park for all your chapter members
- Host a holiday potluck dinner
- Plan a camping trip over the weekend
- Put together a kickball team (or any other sport!) and compete in a local league
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