Dr. Jessica Froehlich (2014 SJ Scholar, SJ Award Holder, Participant 2014-2019)

“I am so grateful for the program — both what it taught me and the incredible people I connected with. Through my service learning with the program, I volunteered with the Ronald McDonald House Saskatchewan and L’Arche Saskatoon. I was also connected with both the Intercordia Program and Canadian Roots Exchange which further impacted my journey in understanding social justice and accountability. The program not only included a volunteering requirement, but group discussions and reflections where I could meaningfully think about the work we were doing, why we cared, what impacts it might have, and critically question our intentions and impacts. The program also featured community suppers, where we further learned about social justice in an ethical and sustainable way. I came to university with my heart in the right place and a will to serve. Ultimately, what SJP did for me was to help foster that passion throughout my time as an undergraduate student, where those motivations can often be lost to the stresses and pressure of life as a young adult. More importantly, it helped guide my slightly naive and simple understanding of justice into something more thoughtful, empowering, and ethically responsible.”

Jessica Froehlich is completing her family medicine residency in La Ronge, where she will start working as a staff physician in July 2024. She practices full scope family medicine, offering hospitalist services, covering the very busy and high acuity emergency department, delivering babies, providing palliative care to those in the later stages of life, offering addictions medicine therapies, providing local clinic services for my patient panel, and flying out to four First Nations and Metis communities to provide clinics on a weekly basis.