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Campus Sponsored Community Programs
- Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program
- Health Professions Career Exploration
- Project Search
- Start on Success Program (SOS)
- UMB Staff Senate Winter Drive
- University of Maryland, Baltimore Outreach Council
- University of Maryland, Baltimore: Vivian T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy Summer Research Program
- Youthworks
- Description:
The Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellows Program is a yearlong fellowship program open to all Baltimore students enrolled in a degree program in health and human-service fields including schools of medicine, nursing, public health, dentistry, pharmacy, social work, and law as well as such disciplines in health care administration and counseling psychology. Since its inception in 1999, fellows have come from the University of Maryland Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Dentistry, Social Work and Law and the College of Notre Dame Geriatric Program and the Johns Hopkins University, Schools of Public Health, Medicine, and Nursing. Fellows, who design their own service project and work with an existing community agency to address unmet needs, have worked to provide services ranging from developing college preparation and application programs for high school students, creating a computer center for the Hispanic population to learn how to use computers as well as English as a second language as well as legal service workshops on housing, employment, domestic violence, and benefits. In addition fellows have developed partnership programs with pregnant teens and HIV positive children and adolescents and currently are developing a free primary care clinic in East Baltimore. Each Schweitzer Fellow performs a community service project of at least 200 hours of direct service. and works in a small group to organize an outreach activity that may take the form of a public symposia or group service activity.
- Community served: Communities vary depending on specific project
- Website: http://www.schweitzerfellowship.org/features/us/bal
- Address: Addresses vary depending on specific project
- Contact:
Bob Kirk - 410-706-0725
bkirk@ssw.umaryland.edu
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- Description:
UMB Office of Government and Community Affairs hosts local school students for tours of the UMB professional schools. Students visit some of the more interesting labs on the UMB campus where UMB students receive simulated training experience in their chosen profession. UMB faculty and students prepare presentations regarding their chosen professions and educational requirements of those professions. Financial Aid information is also presented and application related materials are distributed.
- Community served: Citywide
- Contact:
Brian Sturdivant, MSW - 410-706-1678
BSturdivant@umaryland.edu
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- Description:
Project SEARCH, a partnership between the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), The Arc of Baltimore (ARC), the Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS), and the Division of Rehabilitation Services (DORS), is a model in workforce and career development for adults and students with disabilities. It has two primary components, an Adult Employment Program and a High School Transition Program.
Adult Employment Program: With the Arc of Baltimore serving as the single point of entry, the Adult Employment Program coordinates job development and various human service agency referrals with the Universityýs human resource needs. The goal is to match qualified employees with open positions in a variety of settings. The ARC provides on-the-job support, such as job coaching, training, and determining and securing adaptations and accommodations (when necessary). The ARC also provides on-site job retention staff thereby creating a unique support system where people with any disability can successfully maintain employment and advance in their chosen careers.
High School Transition Program: The High School Transition Program is a one-year educational and internship program for Baltimore City students with disabilities in their last year of high school. It is targeted for students whose main goal is obtaining a competitive, paying job in the workforce. The program will take place on the UMB campus, where total immersion in the workplace will facilitate the teaching and learning process through continuous feedback and application of new skills. Students will attend class on-site where they will be instructed in employability and independent living skills for one hour each day, and then participate as unpaid interns in three to four worksite rotations at various sites on campus throughout the school year. Students are given support through on-site, on-the-job coaching and worksite accommodations through the ARC, in cooperation with a Special Education Teacher and Aide provided by the school system. Individualized job development and placement will begin after the students have successfully completed the program and the rotations are completed.
- Community served: Citywide
- Address: Campuswide
- Contact:
Joanna Falcone - 410-706-5174
jfalcone@af.umaryland.edu
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- Description:
Start on Success is a partnership among the University of Maryland, the National Organization on Disabilities (NOD), the Baltimore City Public Schools, the Office of Employment Development and Workfirst, Inc.This program provides work based learning opportunities to educationally and emotionally disabled and disadvantaged students with entry level work skills. Students are placed in positions during their senior year of high school and spend fifteen hours per week in work-based learning positions.
- Community served: Citywide
- Website: http://www.startonsuccess.org/
- Address: Various location on UMB campus
- Contact:
Brian Sturdivant, MSW - 410-706-1678
BSturdivant@umaryland.edu
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- Description:
The Staff Senate of The University of Maryland, Baltimore created a winter drive as part of their Community Outreach Committee. This collection is for in-patient veterans housed at the Baltimore Veterans Administration Medical Center. They make up holiday packages that will include toiletry items, books, DVDýs, socks, lap robes, word puzzle books, etc.Gift packages will be made up and distributed to in-patients of this 127-bed facility on Christmas Day. Soldiers overseas and the current returning population are inundated with people giving to them; it is our older population of veterans who are often overlooked, so we are hoping that we can give to them as well as to the in-patients housed in their 16-bed trauma recovery unit, making their holidays a little bit brighter.
- Community served: Baltimore VA
- Contact:
Jean Marie Roth - 410-706-8679
jroth@som.umaryland.edu
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- Description:
The Council has initially partnered with select community schools in West Baltimore -- Vivien T. Thomas High School, Diggs-Johnson Middle School, and George Washington Elementary School to help meet identified needs of children and their families.The Council:
Assists the schools with navigating the extensive network of UMB outreach resources available to enrich the childrens experiences.
Serves as the primary point of contact to support each community schools action plan (developed by the school coordinator based on an annual assessment of needs and resources).
Encourages interdisciplinary collaboration within UMB to better leverage and link campus outreach services with identified needs.
Mobilizes campus resources to support local community schools.
Determines appropriate ways to demonstrate the success of targeted outreach efforts.
Expands partnerships to other community schools, as resources permit.
- Community served: West Baltimore
- Website: http://www.umaryland.edu/outreach/index.html
- Address: varies
- Contact:
Brian Sturdivant, MSW - 410-706-1678
BSturdivant@umaryland.edu
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- Description:
Sponsored by the University of Maryland, Baltimore under President David J. Ramsay, this paid summer research program encourages students from Vivian T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy to consider a career as a health professional or scientist. Students work 40 hours each week with faculty and graduate research assistants in biomedical research labs to gain direct work experience and mentoring. Throughout the internship, students participate in weekly workshops and campus tours, where they meet with faculty and students from all of the schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. Students also participate in a "Student Research Forum" where they present the results of their summer research activities. This program accepts 25 students each summer.
- Community served: Baltimore City/ Poppleton
- Contact:
Dr. Jordan E. Warnick - 410-706-3026
jwarnick@som.umaryland.edu
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- Description:
The University of Maryland has participated in Baltimore City's Youthworks Summer Employment Program for more than a decade. The program, sponsored in conjunction with Baltimore City's Office of Employment Development, provides high school students with opportunities to gain meaningful work experiences, explore career choices and receive mentoring from University employees in various professions.Mentors are recruited and matched with students based upon areas of common interest. Weekly activities are planned for students and mentors throughout the summer in order to give the students additional opportunities to explore the various career and educational options available at the campus.
- Community served: Citywide
- Website: none
- Address: Various locations on UMB campus
- Contact:
Sheila Greenwood - 410-706-7302
sgreenwood@af.umaryland.edu
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