ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM FELLOWSHIP - CLASS OF 2022
United Nations Academic Impact and MCN are proud to partner on the Millennium Fellowship. Over 31,000 young leaders on 2,400+ campuses across 140+ nations applied to join the Class of 2022. 200+ campuses worldwide (just 8%) were selected to host the 3,000+ Millennium Fellows.
UNITED NATIONS ACADEMIC IMPACT AND MCN PROUDLY PRESENT SABRINA AIKO TAKEMOTO-SPRAGGINS, A MILLENNIUM FELLOW FOR THE CLASS OF 2022.
Duke University | North Carolina, United States | Advancing SDG 3 & UNAI 6
" I am excited to be a Millennium Fellow to take a stronger leadership stance in the causes I am passionate about. Our children are our future of humanity, kindness, and prosperity, and thus, it is crucial we provide them with the proper resources no matter what background they come from. As a member of the Millennium Fellowship, I hope to help as many children flourish as possible by informing communities about the importance of mental health and doing policy reviews of the current healthcare injustices in my state. "
Millennium Fellowship Project: Creating Accessible Mental Health Care in North Carolina through School-based Interventions
For this project, we are conducting rapid literature reviews to understand the current barriers to accessing mental health services faced by Latinx communities. To get further insight, we will also be conducting interviews with Latinx community members and Primary Care Providers to address the current barriers and facilitators of high quality, culturally competent patient-doctor interactions.
We are also developing a school-based program that connects Spanish-speaking parents of children at risk of a behavioral disorder with a parent navigator to help guide them through the healthcare system. Along with that, we are working with a high school in Vance County to set up parent nights that can inform about this new program. Lastly, we are developing a social media strategy for NC-Pal, an organization that provides mental health expertise to PCPs, to increase their user base
About the Millennium Fellow
Sabrina Takemoto-Spraggins is a rising sophomore at Duke University from the Bay Area in California. She is outgoing, hard-working, and a team-player. She is very passionate about working with children and improving healthcare resources and mental health services for them. She has worked with various organizations since high school to make this a reality, such as interning at a company that provides free mental health services for students. Since then, she has been a board member for Duke Neurocare, an organization that teaches basic neuroscience to elementary school students, and has aided in studies on child development and perfectionism in college students during her Freshman year at Duke.
