Subject: UVA Soothe Volunteers

Description: SOOTHE (Students Offering Optimism To Help) is a club where UVA medical students provide comfort, distraction, and support for patients in physical or emotional distress through engaging conversation or guided activities. SOOTHE is the UVA chapter of a student-run volunteering club that started at Johns Hopkins. SOOTHE serves to foster connection between empathetic and enthusiastic students with patients to alleviate their suffering.