WE ARE UMOJA YOUTH MOBILIZERS

ENGAGING YOUTH AROUND ISSUES THAT HELP MOVE US INTO DIVERSIFIED HEALTHCARE CAREER PATHS.

Become a part of our team! If you are interested in applying to the Umoja Health Oakland Youth Mobilizer Program, you will need to complete and submit an application. Once your application has been reviewed and accepted, you will receive an acceptance notification along with a follow-up email containing important information about the program. Following that, you will be scheduled for an onboarding meeting with the Program Co-Leads to further acquaint you with the program and its expectations.

YOUTH ON A MISSION…

TO CLEAR THE AIR IN OUR COMMUNITY. WE CONTINUE TO MONITOR AIR QUALITY AND COLLECT DATA FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES.

COVID is airborne and Youth Mobilizers are measuring ventilation in our community spaces because it can give us clues about how clean the air is, and what are the chances of becoming infected with Covid. CO2 is expelled into the air and in enclosed spaces every time a person exhales. If someone is infected with COVID, each breath also expels some virus into that same space. The more people present in the space, and the more the enclosed the space is, the higher the CO2 levels will be. Wearing masks reduces the CO2 (and virus in the air). Opening doors and windows also reduces CO2 and the amount of virus in the air.

In public spaces with good ventilation, the CO2 is low and so is the risk of COVID transmission. When the CO2 is high, it means that the risk is also high because we are re-breathing other people’s air. If that “re-breathed” air includes viral particles and aerosoles, the chances of getting COVID increases significantly.

REMEMBER, COVID IS AIRBORNE! Protect yourself by being aware of and in your surroundings!

AIR QUALITY & COVID RISK

Technology can help us detect virus risk in public places, and our Youth Mobilizer team has been monitoring local establishments in our community. Watch the video and listen to Dr. Lucky Tran explain how to use CO2 monitors to gauge COVID risk.

Then, look at the map and images below to learn how we’ve monitored some of our community’s local businesses to monitor the air quality inside their establishments.