Once a year, I send an emailed reflection to everyone in our Streetlight community. We offer thanks to our volunteers, our patients, our team at UF Health, and the individuals in the community that enable Streetlight support through their valuable giving. Not everyone likes reading a newsletter, so I…
Every December, our Director reflects on the year and shares a reflection on all the Streetlight community has experienced. Here is this year’s reflection from Emily Marchi. This is the season where we reflect on all of the ways we’ve grown over the last year as a Streetlight…
Annual Brief 2020 Artwork created by a patient serving on the Streetlight Gaming League Steering Committee. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ― Helen Keller Preparing our end of the year newsletter is always a very…
SGL: Systems On! is an event series in which we are facilitating more virtual events and social programming in response to the social distancing precautions necessitated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Streetlight patients and volunteers will get to participate in all social activities on Discord without needing any…
As we near the end of 2019, we want to update all of our friends, families, colleagues, and all who help support and make the work we do every day possible. In Streetlight, our focus is not merely to extend support to our patients, but to encourage a…
“While you’re living, and while you can, fight– because everyone has something to fight for. No matter if you have a son, a daughter, no matter what– Fight for yourself.” -Kayla Smith We are so grateful to be a part of Kayla’s…
Congrats to Tyler on finishing Chemotherapy! Check out his End of Chemo Bio, written by our own Emily Sullivan, below: “If you start something, you might as well finish it.” “I have always been that way,” says Tyler. After three years of…
September is Sickle Cell Awareness Month! Follow us on Facebook for updates on weekly Sickle Cell events! …
As we round out 2016, we come together and reflect on ten years of Streetlight support at UF Health. Streetlight began as a gathering of seventeen high school and college students inviting teenage patients to a weekly hospital event called, “Unplugged.” Ten years later we…
Application Process Our application cycle is currently closed. The next time we will be accepting new applications will be from June 22nd – July 17th, 2020, for volunteers beginning their 2-year commitment with Streetlight in Fall 2020. We are staying up to date with new hospital in-person visitation restrictions…
