MIKE Program

MIKE Program empowers youth to be ambassadors of health in service to their diverse communities through mentorship, partnership, and the promotion of healthy kidneys.

Reach Up, Reach Out, Reach Back

Our Goals

• Empower youth to participate in health promotion
  • Integrate health education and career related learning skills
  • Mentor youth to apply, adopt, and advocate for healthy behaviors
  • Equip youth to be health ambassadors
  • Expose youth to health career options
• Promote excellence and equity in health and health care
  • Increase the number and diversity of health care workforce
  • Increase trust between providers and consumers of health care
  • Integrate cultures and generations in health education and promotion
  • Increase service skills of health profession students
  • Promote cultural inclusion in medical education
• Raise awareness about the link between healthy kidneys and overall health and productivity.
  • Increase public knowledge of origins and precursors of kidney failure
  • Promote personal and social behaviors to protect against kidney failure
  • Lead collaboration among community stakeholders, including kidney health professionals, to raise public awareness about the risks of kidney failure and strategies for disease prevention
• Target programs to the medically disadvantaged communities at high risk of kidney failure

Founding Objectives

• Develop peer-to-peer programs to educate youth on the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Develop peer-to-peer programs to increase trust of the medical community among youth at risk of kidney-related diseases.
• Develop physician-training programs to target medical professionals who treat people at risk of poor kidney health.
• Develop and implement curriculum-based programs to increase overall cardiovascular health and to promote kidney health for grades 6th through 10th.
• Target programs to the medically disadvantaged communities at a high risk of kidney diseases.