1. UPPASA (Urban Prevention Project against AIDS and Substance Abuse) a skills based curriculum;
2. an intensive home visitation and mentoring program (PANDA);
3. a post-partum fitness and nutrition program (Wellworks);
4. a drama outreach group which focuses upon pregnancy prevention; and,
5. a mental health and social support group (Ladies of SOUL).

Principal Investigator: Beth Barnet, MD, UM, Department of Family Medicine

Funding Agency - Office of Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention; Office of Population Affairs

1) improving parenting and co-parenting, 2) reducing repeat pregnancy, 3) improving educational attainment.

Participants are paired with a Care Manager who provides services until the child's 2nd birthday. The Care Manager meets with the pregnant teen/adolescent mother monthly. The Care Manager provides 4 core activities:

1) Baseline and ongoing monthly needs assessment for healthcare, mental health, school/job attainment, daycare, housing stability; 2) Computer Assisted Motivational Interviewing (CAMI) sessions with teen mother. In CAMI sessions, the teen answers questions on a laptop computer that assess partner relationships, sexual behaviors, & risk for repeat pregnancy. Following the assessment, the trained Care Manager conducts motivational interviewing, a counseling technique aimed at assisting the teen to improve contraceptive and condom use, focus on goals, and promote school continuation; 3) Parenting instruction with a culturally sensitive, developmentally relevant parenting curriculum; and 4) Coordination and linkage with community partners (e.g. Primary Care Practices: UMB Division of Community Psychiatry) with respect to health care, mental health care, and other services. The intervention will be rigorously evaluated with random assignment to intervention vs. usual care control group.


• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/familymedicine



• Address: Homes, Schools



• Contact: Beth Barnet, M.D. - 410-328-2550 bbarnet@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  C-SNAP is a three-year, multi-site study primarily funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is dedicated to measuring the possible impacts of changes to cash and food assistance on hunger and malnutrition in children under three. C-SNAP provides direct interventions for children at risk for growth and nutrition problems, monitors the health outcomes of poor children visiting emergency rooms and acute care clinics, and educates, informs and empowers families and communities by making research results available.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Maureen Black - 410-706-5289 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  CHAT is a community service organization that oversees several student-run service initiatives at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. We provide medical students and medical school faculty with opportunities to learn about health care issues in our urban Baltimore community. We also encourage and support students in their endeavors to develop their own service initiatives. For anyone who wants to learn about healthcare in Baltimore or work for better healthcare in their community, CHAT is the place for you!

  For more information about CHAT initiatives, please see the database entries on the CHAT Mountain Manor Initiative and the CHAT Lunchtime Lecture Series.
  
  

• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~chat/index.htm



• Contact: Dr. Dan Schulze - 410-706-5180 dschulze@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Lunchtime Lecture Series is a year-long series focusing on different underserved populations in the Baltimore community and the healthcare boundaries and issues those populations face.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Dr. Dan Schulze - 410-706-5180 dschulze@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  This is a student-run and student-developed health education program delivered to adolescent inpatients in a local substance abuse treatment center. The program trains medical students at the beginning of every academic year to teach general and sexual health education to the teenage inpatients of Mountain Manor. Throughout the year, groups of instructors travel to the facility every week to deliver lessons on general health, sexually transmitted diseases, and issues surrounding pregnancy. The time commitment is flexible and requires at most 2 hours on every 3rd Thursday. UMB students, come have fun putting your medical education to good use while helping these teens learn how to protect themselves!
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Address: 3800 Frederick Avenue Baltimore



• Contact: Dr. Dan Schulze - 410-706-5180 dschulze@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Center for Families was established to develop "state of the art" interventions and provide valuable clinical services, to help bridge the gap between research and practice, and to educate professionals to better address the problem of child maltreatment. The Center promotes safety, health and well-being for children, families and communities. The Center:
  • Delivers and evaluates clinical and community-based services for children and families at risk for maltreatment
  • Conducts research and program evaluations that build knowledge concerning prevention, assessment, and treatment of child abuse and neglect
  • Provides educational and practice experiences for medical, social work, nursing, law and psychology students, interns, residents and fellows
  • Engages in advocacy, including the analysis of existing and proposed laws and polices, and working with policy makers.
  Current Clinical and Community-Based Activities:
  • Family Connections, operating in West Baltimore, helps families meet children's basic needs and prevent neglect and substance abuse. Services provided by social workers, social work interns and community outreach workers help enhance safety and well-being.
  • The Child Protection Team (CPT) provides 24/7 consultations to UMMS staff concerning children who are suspected of having been abused or neglected. The CPT also helps develop hospital policies and programs and provides staff training concerning child maltreatment.
  • The Safe Environment for Every Kid (SEEK) Project extends the services of the Child Protection Team to primary care pediatric clinics, offering staff training, consultation on children suspected of having been maltreated; including those exposed to domestic violence and offers an initial assessment and crisis intervention.
  • The University of Maryland Medical System Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) is the designated site for assessing pre-pubertal girls and boys under 18 alleged to have been sexually abused within the prior three days in Baltimore City and Baltimore County. The ED also assesses and treats children suspected of being physically abused or neglected.
  • The Care Clinic offers medical and psychosocial assessments when children are suspected of having been maltreated, comprehensive assessments of families' needs and strengths, and mental health services to children, parents, and families, as well as in-home support services.
  
  
  
• Community served:
  
  
• Contact: Diane DePanfilis, Ph.D., MSW - 410-706-3609 ddepanfi@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Center for Infant and Child Loss assists families as they learn to live with the sudden unexpected loss of their child (0 to 12 years of age) and to have hope for the future. Working closely with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, families are contacted and supported through the diagnosis process and provided ongoing grief support. The Center is also the State's Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Information and Counseling Program (SIDS). SIDS continues to be the single leading cause of death among infants. Risk reduction practices can lower the incidence of SIDS, and the Center makes every effort to educate parents, professionals and communities in risk-reduction practices through trainings, media events and literature. The most often recognized risk reduction is 'Back to Sleep,' but the messages also include all aspects of providing a safe environment for children.

  The Center currently has two state-wide efforts. The first focuses on risk reduction. All Maryland hospitals with obstetrical departments are distributing "Back to Sleep /Tummy to Play" light switch covers to approximately 70,000 parents of newborns. The covers highlight placing baby on her back to sleep, to reduce the risk of SIDS and other infant deaths, and on her tummy to play, to encourage muscle development. The second initiative targets bereaved families struggling with the immediate impact of their loss, and was conceived and funded by Center families. The Empty Arms Project provides a packet to newly bereaved parents upon leaving the emergency department. The packet contains a stuffed bear with a ribbon imprinted with the Center's toll-free number, and a card giving suggestions for coping in the next few hours and days following their child's death.
  
  

• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://www.infantandchildloss.org/



• Contact: Donna Becker - 410-706-5062 caring@infantandchildloss.org
  
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• Description:
  The objectives of the Center for Minority Health Research are:
  1. to identify and evaluate interventions which improve the health of inner-city African-American children and youth.
  2. to advance the methodology for data gathering, implementation and evaluation of programs involving multiple and at times potentially competing health outcomes and inputs
  3. to increase the number of minority professionals involved in health services
  4. to influence local, state and national health policy and program implementation based upon these findings.
  Programs include:
  • "Focus on Kids", an HIV risk reduction program which was awarded the prestigious title of one of five programs identified nationally as "A program that works"
  • "Project Impact", which is a community-university linked research and intervention program to reduce the risk of HIV infection among urban youth by increasing parental monitoring and communication
  • "AIDS Risk Reduction among Namibian Youth", which is a collaborative effort among governmental agencies to provide a curriculum to youth in Namibia to support them in their efforts to choose futures which are free of health challenges, including HIV
  • "Youth Attitudes Toward the Police", a project that collects data in order to develop a more positive relationship between police and youth
  • "Youth Exposure to Violence and Distress", a violence prevention effectiveness trial for African-American adolescents and parents residing in public housing projects in Baltimore City
  • "T.R.A.P. - Teen Relationship Abuse Project", a project that studies the prevalence of violence among African-American youth and is developing a culturally relevant intervention.
  Training is also available to Emergency Medical Service Providers entitled, "Effective Communication and Cultural Competence in Emergency Care of the Adolescent" . The "Summer Intern Program" is also available to increase opportunities for minority students in health outcomes research.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide; Nambia, Africa
  
  
• Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/community/minority.asp



• Contact: Jennifer Galbraith - 410-706-4267 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The Center for School Mental Health within the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine is a national center focused on advancing training, practice, research and policy in the emerging interdisciplinary school mental health field. It receives federal funding for national program and policy analysis, technical assistance and research, and operates programs providing evidence-based mental health promotion and intervention in the following schools in Baltimore City (25 schools) and Prince George's County (2 schools).

  Elementary Schools:

  • Charles Carroll Barrister
  • Bay Brook
  • Belmont
  • Samuel F.B. Morse
  • Westside
  Elementary/Middle Schools
  • Franklin Square
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Kelson
  • Francis Scott Key
  • Patapsco
  • Carter G. Woodson
  Middle Schools:
  • Calverton
  • Diggs Johnson
  • Harlem Park (8th grade only)
  • Dr. Roland N. Patterson Sr. Academy
  • West Baltimore
  High Schools:
  • Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts
  • Baltimore Talent Development
  • Digital Harbor
  • National Academy Foundation
  • Southside Academy
  • New Era Academy
  • Homeland Security Academy
  • Institute of Business and Entreprenurship Academy
  • Western
  
  
  
• Community served: Nationwide
  
  
• Website: http://csmh.umaryland.edu



• Contact: Dr. Mark Weist - 410-706-0974 mweist@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The CMT is a program intended to meet the mental health needs of children and adolescents ages 5-18 years. The team serves children and adolescents in the community who are unable to use traditional outpatient clinic services due to the seriousness and complexity of their problems. Team members include psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and social workers. The program provides:
  • Mental health assessment and treatment;
  • Advocacy and outreach to parents and children;
  • Coordination of services;
  • 24 hour on call services;
  • Medication evaluation, prescription and monitoring.
  
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Address: No fixed address.



• Contact: Kelly Davis - 410-328-2564 Kdavis@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Located on the Kernan Hospital campus, this inter-disciplinary center is involved in a broad range of activities investigating complementary and alternative therapies and evaluating their contribution to the care of patients. Treatment programs are offered to patients who suffer from a wide range of acute and chronic problems such as low back pain, headaches, sports injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://www.compmed.ummc.umaryland.edu/



• Contact: Dr. Brian Berman - 410-448-6872 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  Connect to Protect: Baltimore links local researchers with community members, organizations and institutions in ways that create effective partnerships. Together, researchers work with community members to identify young adults at risk for HIV infection, determine neighborhood assets and unmet needs by examining how disease and risk patterns correspond with available services and address community needs with research-based prevention strategies that are culturally responsive and scientifically sound. Connect to Protect activities include the creation of a print and online youth service directory for Baltimore City, providing technical assistance on fund raising, grant writing and evaluation, creating user-friendly research programs, determining epidemiological data and assisting in network building between communities through organizing events and coalitions.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://www.adolescentaids.org/c2p.html



• Address: 21201,21217 Zip Codes



• Contact: Bethany Griffin-Deeds, PhD - 410-706-1936 bgriffin@peds.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  PT Month - In celebration of "National Physical Therapy Month" the Department of Physical Therapy sponsors a variety of events to bring Physical Therapists together and promote the profession.
  • Participation in the Race for the Cure- approximately 200 runners from University of Maryland participated on the University Center PT team in this annual event for breast health services in Maryland.
  • Free Continuing Education Seminar - The Department of Physical Therapy hosts a free continuing education seminar annually to help Physical Therapists in the area get their required continuing education credits.
  • Florence Kendall Symposium - Florence Kendal, a pioneer in the field of Physical Therapy is still involved in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Maryland. To honor her dedication to the field, we host a Florence Kendall Symposium annually where the topic of the speaker is in her area of expertise, muscle measurement. Free to all attendees.
  
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Angel Jackson - 410-706-1816 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The Clinical Center of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) provides care and support for people living with complicated viral and infectious diseases. The center specializes in treating patients living with: HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis, Herpes, Cancers associated with viruses, Human Papilloma Virus and other general infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and Lyme disease. The Compassionate Care Program means that no one is turned away and staff works to ensure that all receive needed care. All patients are encouraged to participate in the Patient Advisory Board.

  The Clinical Center offers care in several locations:

  • The Evelyn Jordan Center (outpatient care);
  • The University of Maryland Medical Center (inpatient care);
  • Deaton Hospital (long-term care); and
  • IHV's Clinical Research Unit (new therapies)
  • Maryland General Hospital
  
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://www.ihv.org



• Address: The Evelyn Jordan Center (outpatient care), The University of Maryland Medical Center (inpatient care), Deaton Hospital (long-term care), and IHV's Clinical Research Unit (new therapies), Maryland General Hospital



• Contact: Mary Gardner - (410) 328-6747 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  Explorations in Science: A Research Awareness Program (ESRAP) is a program established to provide high school students with first hand knowledge of the research that is conducted in various laboratories on the UMB campus and to acquaint them with mentoring and research opportunities on our campus. Approximately once a month, graduate students and/or postdoctoral fellows in STEM disciplines will present their research with attention paid to scientific inquiry (especially research process, methodology and analysis), current results and conclusions. At the end of this experience, the high school students will have gained a greater awareness and appreciation of scientific investigation as well as a significant amount of knowledge regarding procedures, concepts and select areas of STEM research.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/esrap/



• Address: Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, 1400 W Cold Spring Ln, Baltimore MD 21209



• Contact: Charity Ogunbo - 410-706-0657 COgunbo@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Family Connections is a community based, outreach program providing psychosocial services to families. The program partners with families to help them address their needs including
  • food, clothing and housing
  • education
  • employment and training
  • health and mental health
  • substance abuse
  • family violence
  • parent education and support
  • child behavior
  Family Connections has collaborations with nine elementary schools in West Baltimore.

  These schools are: James McHenry, George Washington, William Pinderhughes, Harlem Park, Gilmore, George Kelson, Morrell Park, Robert Coleman and Charles Carroll Barrister.

  Families are referred through these schools to the program. Family Connections works with teachers to develop behavior plans for classes and has conducted group programs at several schools. Family Connections works in cooperation with numerous agencies, major health care providers and the Department of Social Services.
  
  

• Community served: Baltimore City/ West Baltimore
  
  
• Address: 1701 Madison Ave Baltimore Md 21217



• Contact: Dr. Frederick H. Strieder - 410-706-5479 fstriede@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Growth and Nutrition Clinic is a multi-disciplinary, family-centered clinic that provides evaluations and interventions to children under age three with growth deficiencies or feeding disorders.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Maureen Black - 410-706-5289 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA)fulfils its HIP-CORPS protocol each year by working with teenagers at community-based locations such as local community centers and public schools. UMB Medical Students offer this service monthly. The purpose of this initiative is to educate the local residents regarding issues pertaining to sexual health, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV prevention and decision-making skills. The presentations consist of creative, interactive activities that serve to engage participating youth and raise awareness about their health.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://www.snma.org/about-history.php



• Address: No specified community-based address



• Contact: Mawuena Agbonyitor - magbo001@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Harbor City Unlimited provides psychosocial rehabilitation services to persons with chronic mental illnesses. Services include skills training, leisure activities, substance abuse support, employment and housing. Harbor City Unlimited also operates a non-profit company called Harbor City Services which operates a storage services for medical records and a brokerage of used medical equipment.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Address: ý 1227 W. Pratt St Baltimore, Md. 1227 W. Pratt St Baltimore Md 21230



• Contact: John Weibel - 410-328-8559 Jweibel@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  University of Maryland School of Medicine students lead an eight-week (once per week) seminar course on health related topics in local high schools. The program culminates in a tour of the historic Davidge Hall, the oldest medical teaching facility in the northern hemisphere still in use located on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus. Seminar topics are chosen by the participating school. The program incorporates both health education and career development by encouraging students to discuss health related professions and the educational requirements of those professions.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: None



• Address: Varies depending on participating schools



• Contact: Charity Ogunbo - 410-706-0657 COgunbo@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Maryland for Mali is a student run organization that is dedicated to raising money for the Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako, Mali and to giving medical students the opportunity to participate in Global Health Initiatives and Advocate for Human Rights. Students in this group work with faculty from the Center for Vaccine Development to address the pharmaceutical needs of patients in the hospital.

  Students from Maryland for Mali co-host an Auction with second year medical students. Half of proceeds benefit the Gabriel Toure Hospital. In the past, Maryland for Mali has used the proceeds to purchase a supply of antibiotics.
  
  

• Community served: Bamako, Mali
  
  
• Contact: Cara Morin - clang001@umaryland.edu
  
  Kavita Ghandi - kgand001@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Medical Breakaway offers students a chance to visit medically underserved areas. Most recently, trips have been to Wendover, KY, home of the Frontier Nursing Service. During spring break, School of Medicine students shadow doctors, nurse practitioners, and home health aides. Students also participate in community service projects at the local elementary school and at the Frontier Nursing Service. At the elementary school, students teach children about nutrition, smoking education, and college interest.

  As of 2008, Medical Breakaway has expanded their services to daycares and nursing homes.

  Medical Breakaway encourages student participation from other UMB schools.
  
  

• Community served:
  
  
• Address: Wendover KY



• Contact: Melissa Wisner - mwisn001@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The University of Maryland School of Medicine has offered Mini-Med School annually since the fall of 2001. Our purpose is to educate our West Baltimore neighbors about specific health conditions that affect them such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, asthma, breast cancer, and prostate cancer, and on topics that illustrate advances in medical technology. Additionally, we give community members the tools they need to identify risk factors, live a healthier lifestyle and if necessary, get treatment. Classes are held on five consecutive Wednesday evenings each fall at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD. During the Fall of 2005, the school partnered with Montgomery County's Latino Health Initiative, the University of Maryland Statewide Health Network and the Universities at Shady Grove to host a similar program for Latino communities in Montgomery County. School of Medicine faculty teach the course, which is free of charge and on a first come-first served basis.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide; Montgomery County
  
  
• Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/minimed/



• Address: University of Maryland School of Medicine 685 West Baltimore Street, Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Md.



• Contact: Healther Graham - 410-706-1521 HGraham@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Undergraduate students in arts and sciences are eligible to apply for an 8-week mentorship in Cancer Research at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center during their summer holidays. Students will be matched to Cancer Center Faculty who will serve as mentors. Research activities of Cancer Center investigators encompass many areas that are on the forefront of interest, including cancer drug resistance, signal transduction, programmed cell death, molecular pharmacology, angiogenesis, and carcinogenesis. (p) Undergraduate College / University students in Arts and Sciences and Medical Students with good academic standing are encouraged to apply. Applications are considered on a competitive basis. (p) Accepting applications beginning: March 1, annually.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://cancer-research.umaryland.edu/Summer2006.htm



• Contact: Stephen Long - 410-328-7516 slong@umm.edu
  
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• Description:
  This program is designed to introduce high school and undergraduate underrepresented minority students to drug abuse research through research placements with some of our most distinguished scientists. Students work with the investigators for 8 to 10 weeks during the summer. The experience may include formal courses, participation in meetings, data collection activities, data analysis, laboratory experiments, manuscript preparation, and library research. The program exposes students to drug abuse research and encourages them to pursue careers in biomedical and behavioral research. Participating students will receive stipends for the summer based on the rate agreed upon with each research site, not to exceed $10.00 per hour for undergraduate students (for a maximum stipend of $4,000 for 10 weeks) and $8.00 per hour for high school students (for a maximum stipend of $3,200 for 10 weeks).
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://www.drugabuse.gov/PDF/SPOSummer.pdf



• Contact: Dr. Jordan E. Warnick - 410-706-3026 jwarnick@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Nutrition Clinic provides counseling for adult patients with diabetes, hypertension, gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, and kidney or cardiac diseases.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Laila Roth - (410) 328-6965 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The UMB Pediatric AIDS Program offers a safe environment in which families can access state of the art pediatric HIV primary care. The Pediatric AIDS Program provides comprehensive medical and nursing care and social work services of the highest quality to children and families infected with and affected by HIV. The program has been designed to provide extensive supports to families, offer easy access to health care, and to establish linkages to other programs in the community that can support the family in the context in which they live. More specifically, in addition to providing well child care, The Pediatric AIDS Program offers HIV counseling and testing, case management, pediatric developmental assessment, mental health, specialized pediatric immunologic care, adult HIV care, research/clinical trial access, social services, addiction counseling, and nutritional consultation to families affected by HIV disease. Our program offers community education and outreach-providing faculty and staff to speak to community organizations, schools, and others who are interested in learning more about HIV/AIDS.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Dr. John Farley - 410-706-8220 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  Physicians for Human Rights is committed to the belief that all human beings are entitled to have their needs for basic health and safety met. PHR is committed to mobilizing health professionals to promote human rights in professional practice. The University of Maryland chapter of this national organization focuses on achieving these goals through education, community and international projects, and activism.

  Endeavors include:

  • Teaching classes at ASTT (Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma) about navigating the health care system and nutrition;
  • Providing translation services in counseling sessions at ASTT;
  • Political activism in support of the African Health Capacity Investment Act and access to HIV treatment;
  • Training sessions for UMB students on HIV patient counseling; Hosting community and campus wide events and speakers on Human Rights issues.

  Recently, PHR, the International Social Work Organization, AMSA, and the Medical School Class Council hosted "Dinner for Darfur" to educate attendees about the situation in Darfur and how to help.
  
  

• Community served: Statewide, Nationwide, Worldwide
  
  
• Website: http://groups.google.com/group/PHR-UMB/web/home



• Contact: Josh Lieberman - jlieb001@umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Comprehensive foot care is offered to the community through the Department of Orthopedics - Podiatry Division. These services are available at two convenient office locations at the University of Maryland Medical System. The two locations are: University of Maryland Medical Center, Mondays, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM, 22 South Greene Street, Ground Level, Suite NGE19, telephone number: 410.328.5870 and The University Health Center, Fridays 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, 16 South Eutaw Street, 2nd Floor, telephone number: 410.328.4310. The offices are equipped to provide: care for common foot ailments, evaluations of diabetic foot risk factors and ongoing diabetic foot care and prompt minor surgical procedures generally cared for in an office setting.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Address: 16 South Eutaw Street Baltimore Md, 22 South Greene Street, Ground Level, Suite NGE19



• Contact: Ronald L. Sherman, DPM, MBA - 410-328-4300 Rsher18@yahoo.com
  
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• Description:
  The project provides continuous care and mobile outreach treatment to adults who have a severe and persistent mental illness. Eligible individuals may be homeless in Baltimore City. The PACT team offers intensive psychiatric and case management services in community locations. The team is comprised of psychiatrists, social workers, nurses, consumer advocates and a family outreach worker.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Nancy Krauss - 410-328-2564 nkrauss@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  UM pediatric faculty provide consultation for children with behavior and/or learning problems at 10 Baltimore City Public Schools, as well as services and consultations to schools in Howard County, Baltimore County and area health departments.

  The consultants work with the youngsters, family, teachers and administrators to improve communication and skills in the handling of the child with the problem.
  
  

• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Dr. Linda Grossman - 410-706-6538 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The High School Student Tours were established to bring various medical professions to life and to empower young people to make informed choices about their future careers in medicine. During the tours the students learn about preparing for and applying to medical school. Often our medical students will meet with the high school students in a question and answer session. The students will also be able to get a sense of the University of Maryland School of Medicine's commitment to excellence as well as the faculty and staffs, dedication to the success of our students.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Dawn Roberts - 410-706-7689 droberts@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  A job shadowing experience involves a student spending a day here at the University of Maryland with a professional in their area of interest. The student "shadows" one or more professionals during the experience, attempting to gain an understanding of what professionals do while they work and, at the same time identifying the links between classroom learning and work requirements.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Dawn Roberts - 410-706-7689 droberts@som.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Taghi Modarressi Center for Infant Study was found in 1983 by Dr. Taghi Modarressi, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. The Center's mission is 1.) to provide high, quality early childhood mental health services to families with children under six years of age, 2.) to train psychiatrists and mental health providers in infant and preschool mental health service provision, 3.) to consult with local and state agencies about issues related to early childhood mental health, and 4.) to conduct research to improve the lives of families with young children.
  The multidisciplinary team of child psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, social workers and counselors provide clinical assessments and evaluation, play, family and group therapies, and psychiatric services in the campus clinic and in the community. Mental health clinicians are embedded in 6 community programs: PACT Kennedy Krieger Therapeutic Nursery for homeless families, Emily Price Jones Head Start, Martin Luther King Early Head Start, The Judy Centers of Baltimore City, and the House of Ruth. The clinic specializing in serving families who are experiencing poverty, trauma or homeless and treating children with the diagnoses of Attention Deficit Disorders, Anxieties Disorders, Trauma Disorders and challenging behaviors. Many of the children have suffered maltreatment and been exposed to violence.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: none



• Address: YWCA 128 W. Franklin St, Baltimore MD 21201; Emily Price Jones Head Start 3510 El Dorado, Baltimore, MD 21216; Martin Luther King Early Head Start 1600 Rutland Ave, Baltimore, MD ; The Judy Center 6201 Frankford Ave, Baltimore MD; The Judy Center 2011 Linden Ave, Baltimore, MD



• Contact: Kay Connors, LCSW-C - 410-328-6680 kconnors@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Tar Wars provides 4th and 5th grade students with interactive activities to help children understand the short term health consequences and financial costs of smoking. Additionally, we discuss how advertisers entice individuals to smoke and how students can recognize these tactics. At the conclusion of the presentation, students are invited to participate in a national poster contest.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Ashley Huber - huber.ashley@gmail.com
  
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• Description:
  The Teen Tot Program is a comprehensive primary care program for teen mothers and their young children offered through the Division of General Pediatrics at the University of Maryland Pediatric Ambulatory Center,105 Penn Street. This program has provided comprehensive longitudinal primary care to over 240 teen mothers and their children since its inception in 1993. All mothers aged 17 and younger at the birth of their child are eligible to join. Care is provided to both the mother and the child by the same providers during the same clinical sessions. A nurse practitioner, physician, and social worker comprise the Teen Tot team. Home visits, parenting classes, case management, and help with transportation are provided. Care is provided to the mother through age 21 and to the child through age 4. Once the child turns four, care is transferred to the Pediatric Ambulatory Center.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Jill Kempthorne, MD - 410-706-5289 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  An initiative of the Institute of Human Virology Vaccine Trials Unit, BRAVE supports the unitýs efforts to develop an HIV vaccine through partnerships with communities, scientists, professional staff and others affected by HIV. BRAVE strives to provide prevention education and outreach, build partnerships between the scientific and local communities, promote HIV vaccine trials with uninfected individuals and provide referrals for individuals infected and affected by HIV.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://www.ihv.org/project_brave/index.html



• Contact: PAC - (410) 706-2525 PAC - (410) 706-2525 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The Care Clinic provides free specialized mental health treatment for children and families affected by physical or sexual abuse, or exposure to domestic violence. Treatment is provided by an interdisciplinary team from psychology, psychiatry, and pediatric medicine. We collaborate closely with community groups such as Department of Social Services, domestic violence shelters, and schools. Families are referred, provided a clinical evaluation, and then offered individual, family, or group therapy, along with advocacy and psychiatry services. In addition, Care Clinic clinicians provide training to on-campus and local agencies and community groups on the impact of child abuse and domestic violence as well as effective interventions for these issues. Finally, the Care Clinic has several opportunities for training for graduate level students in the fields of psychology and pediatrics.
  
  
• Community served: Metropolitan Baltimore and surrounding counties
  
  
• Address: 520 W. Lombard Street 1st floor



• Contact: Cindy Weisbart, PsyD - 410-706-1142 cweisbar@Peds.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The UMB School of Medicine faculty in the Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) offers their services as experts in tropical medicine and infectious diseases to residents in the Baltimore - Washington area who are planning trips overseas. The clinic meets six times monthly to provide patients with information about illnesses common in countries to be visited. The travel physicians offer available vaccines, medications to prevent malaria and other tropical infections, and travel advice to help prevent those illnesses.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide; D.C. Metro Region
  
  
• Contact: Robert Edelman, MD - 410-328-5196 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  Harbor City Unlimited provides psychosocial rehabilitation services to persons with chronic mental illnesses. Services include skills training, leisure activities, substance abuse support, employment and housing. Harbor City Unlimited also operates a non-profit company called Harbor City Services which operates a storage services for medical records and a brokerage of used medical equipment.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: John Weibel - 410-328-8559 Jweibel@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The PACT program is an intensive psychiatric treatment and case management program designed to provide services to adults, children and adolescents who have been unable to access treatment at an outpatient clinic due to the severity of their mental illness. The team is multidisciplinary and also has consumer advocates and family outreach workers who are involved in the delivery of services. Outreach and service delivery are tailored to the patients' needs.

  The Safe Haven Shelter is a city wide shelter funded by HUD and administered by UMMS at which individuals with a history of homelessness and mental illness receive mental health services from any one of the city's mobile treatment teams.

  Through the PACT's Representative Payee Program, social security funds of patients who receive mental health services from the program are managed. The program is designed to assist individuals who are unable to manage their own funds due to the severity of their mental illness or substance abuse.
  
  

• Community served: Baltimore City
  
  
• Address: Mobile services are delivered in the community



• Contact: Nancy Krauss - 410-328-2564 nkrauss@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  ACSES consists of the Community Support Program and the SSI Outreach Project.

  Community Support Program (CSP) The CSP is a targeted intensive case management program that is designed to meet the needs of adults with serious and persistent mental illness who require extensive community support that is not available in traditional mental health services. Staff members work closely with clinical teams to assist individuals with taking medication and keeping treatment appointments. They also help obtain a variety of other services, such as housing, medical care, social services, vocational services, rehabilitation services and public benefits.

  SSIOutreach Project The SSI project is an outreach program funded on a HUD grant through Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc. The program serves adults in Baltimore City who have serious and persistent mental illness. Clinical staff of the project are able to make presumptive determinations of disability and, therefore obtain income for individuals much more quickly than usual. This is the only project in the country authorized by the SSA to make such determinations for adults with psychiatric disabilities.
  
  

• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Dedra Layne - 410-328-1406 Dlayne@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Walter P. Carter Clinics are community mental health centers committed to providing comprehensive mental health treatment to residents of Baltimore City. The staff consists of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses. Services are offered to people who need help with:
  • Family problems-including marital difficulties and parenting issues;
  • Life crisis
  • Chronic psychiatric illness
  • School problems
  • Psychiatric illness in combination with substance abuse

  The clinics serve adults, children and adolescents. In addition, the Continuous Care Team is an intensive psychiatric treatment and case management service designed to assist patients with persistent and severe mental illness by providing outreach and coordination of care in all aspects of treatment.

  UMMS is also contracted with Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) to provide mental health services on-site at the HCH facility. Additionally, outreach services are provided at area shelters and soup kitchens.
  
  

• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Eileen Hastings - 410-328-7584 ehastings@psych.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation is a foundation dedicated to supporting the activities of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus, a non-partisan organization of members of the United States Senate whose purpose is to educate communities about the risks of glaucoma and other blindness-causing diseases. The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology received two grants from the Congressional Caucus to raise awareness and provide glaucoma screenings throughout the Baltimore area at no cost to the participants. Last year alone the Department of Ophthalmology, along with the University of Maryland Student Sight Savers, was able to screen over 1,500 participants.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Marva Smith - 410-328-7954 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  Raising awareness and providing free screenings for glaucoma in Baltimore, Maryland. The Student Sight Savers Project (SSSP) is a program that enhances community education and involvement in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. Glaucoma screenings are performed by 83 medical students from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and are conducted within the city of Baltimore and surrounding counties. In addition to benefiting the community, the SSSP facilitates understanding and exposure of medical students to glaucoma and the field of ophthalmology.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Marva Smith - 410-328-7954 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  This mobile clinic, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and asthma specialists, makes stops at more than a dozen public schools in West Baltimore. The project, which is a partnership between the University of Maryland Hospital for Children and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Maryland - Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter, is offering ongoing care to children with asthma. The Breathmobile is staffed by pediatric allergists, pulmonologists, a pediatric nurse practitioner, and a registered nurse, all from the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. These health care providers are able to diagnose children with asthma, offer treatment, prescribe, and in some cases, dispense medication at no charge to the families.
  
  
• Community served: Baltimore City/ West Baltimore
  
  
• Website: http://www.umm.edu/breathmobile/



• Contact: Mary Beth Bollinger - 410-706-2443 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  University of Maryland Statewide Health Network (UMSHN) was established in FY 2002 with Cigarette Restitution Funds as a project of the University of Maryland Center for Health Disparities to reduce morbidity and mortality related to cancer and tobacco-related diseases through promotion of a wide variety of prevention and control activities as well as promotion of increased participation in clinical trials. In 2004, UMSHN won the National Best Practice Award from the United States Department of Health and Human Services as a model for increasing availability of community-based cancer trials in rural Eastern Shore, Maryland. UMSHN has developed a collaborative partnership with the National Cancer Institute to provide the Mid Atlantic Cancer Information Service (CIS). This service provides up-to-date science-based information to health professional and the general public on the prevention, detection and treatment of cancer and clinical trials.

  The Network has a Central Office located on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus and three Regional Offices located on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Western Maryland and Southern Maryland. Each location features similar cancer education initiatives focuses on local cancer issues. Additionally, UMSHN has an extensive video conferencing network with 25 sites dispersed throughout the State. The UMSHN sites are used for distance professional health-related education, community education, clinical consultations and administrative purposes. To view a map of these Statewide Network Sites and Videoconferencing Linkages in Microsoft PowerPoint format, please visit (http://www.mdhealthnetwork.org/usermedia/pdf/UMSHN_Map-11.05_copy.ppt).

  Current education initiatives for the UMSHN Baltimore Office include:

  • Be Healthy, Be You, a series of 4 workshops designed to educate older adults about ways to prevent disease in their lives. The workshop topics are hypertension and stroke, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and colorectal, breast and prostate cancers. The workshops are free of charge and are held at senior dwellings and community centers, such as Basilica Place, Walker Mews, DePaul House, Southwest Community and Ivy Family Support Centers. .
  • Mini Med School, an program created to educate our West Baltimore neighbors about specific health conditions that affect them such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, asthma, breast cancer, and prostate cancer, and on topics that illustrate advances in medical technology. Additionally, we give community members the tools they need to identify risk factors, live a healthier lifestyle and if necessary, get treatment. Classes are held on five consecutive Wednesday evenings each fall at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD. School of Medicine faculty teaches the course, which is free of charge and on a first come-first served basis.
  • Colorectal and Breast Cancer Patient Navigation Program, a program designed to help underserved communities obtain appropriate education, early detection, treatment and follow-up cancer care services. The program has been implemented in Baltimore City, Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore and Prince George's County. All participants will receive education about the importance of screening and the recommended screening guidelines for colorectal and breast cancers. Additionally, a pre-determined group of participants will receive intensive navigation to cancer screening provided by community health workers.
  
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://www.mdhealthnetwork.org/main/default.asp



• Address: Various locations via partnership with service providers



• Contact: Claudia Baquet, MD , MPH - 410-706-1742 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  The Volunteer Research Program provides a venue for exposure of students to the biomedical research environment to encourage them to pursue advanced degrees in biomedical or behavioral research and/or enter the health professions. Trainees work with faculty who conduct biomedical/behavioral research the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, Institute for Human Virology, Shock Trauma Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center. Students may also be placed at other UM campuses.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/osr/summer_vol.asp



• Address: UMB Campus



• Contact: Dr. Jordan E. Warnick - 410-706-3026 jwarnick@som.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:
  UniversityCare operates two community health centers and two multi-specialty site locations that are also part of University of Maryland Medicine. Conveniently located, we are your neighborhood experts in health care, providing high-quality medical services for you and your family. UniversityCare is committed to our surrounding community. Over the years, we have established strong relationships with a number of community organizations such as schools, churches and local businesses. We offer a variety of helpful services to these groups, including health screenings, fairs and lectures. We partner with neighborhood schools to provide honor roll breakfasts and parent-teacher workshops.
  
  
• Community served: Baltimore City/ West Baltimore
  
  
• Website: http://www.umm.edu/communityhealth/index.html



• Address:
  1000 Cathedral St. 3rd floor Baltimore Maryland 21201,
  4538 Edmondson Avenue Baltimore Maryland 21229,
  8601 Veterans Highway Suite 110 Millersville Maryland 21108,
  North Park Center Unit 423 4-C North Avenue Bel Air Maryland 21014



• Contact: Joanne Riley - (410) 328-7837 JRILEY@umm.edu
  
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• Description:
  The Violence Intervention Program is made possible by a grant from the Governor's Office of Crime Control and Prevention. The program identifies repeat victims of violence who are also involved with the Maryland Office of Parole and Probation. The goal of the program is to implement a culturally relevant hospital-based intervention program for adult survivors of violent trauma that will reduce violence recidivism, reduce crime, provide community links for a lifetime of intervention and gain a better understanding of factors associated with victimization. Participants are assisted with substance abuse treatment and counseling, employment training, conflict resolution, mentoring , continuing education classes and responsible fatherhood skills training. There are currently 14 adults enrolled in the intervention initiative.

  Principal Investigators:
  Paul D. Stolley, MD - Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
  Carnell Cooper, MD - UMMS - Shock Trauma Center
  
  

• Community served: Baltimore City
  
  
• Address: University of Maryland Medical System



• Contact: Dawn Esslinger - 410-706-0550 deslinge@epi.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  This community based medical center provides treatment of common illnesses, physicals, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol screenings. The Health Monitor Program in collaboration with Baltimore City's Commission on Aging offers free physicals and flu shots to seniors 50 years and older who reside in Baltimore City.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Address: 1000 Cathedral St. 3rd floor Baltimore Maryland 21201



• Contact: Pat DiPasquale - 410-396-1295 More on this program...

  
  

• Description:
  YSEP is a program designed to expose youth to science and technology at an early age. Early science interventions provide a means for participants to become excited about science, health careers, mathematics and technology and to pursue these activities in college. Studies have demonstrated that the majority of students who enter a health career had an early science experience that was enjoyable. YSEP instructors are members of the Student National Medical Association's UMB Chapter. Typically, 3-5 medical students travel to a YSEP site on a monthly basis to provide special programming for a group of 10 - 20 elementary or middle school age students. Programs are 90 to 120 minutes. Goals of the program are to:
  
  
  1. Provide a user friendly introduction / re-introduction to scientific fields;
  2. Build on the foundation provided in the science courses students have had in the past;
  3. Introduce students to the basics of science and its applications;
  4. Expose students to the diversity of science with an emphasis on those paths that may not appear to be science-based;
  5. Present all material in a concise, organized, age-appropriate manner;
  6. Facilitate discussion and encourage critical thinking on the part of participants;
  7. Tailor the presentations to the issues most likely to affect the participants.
  
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~snma/



• Address: Varies depending on participating schools



• Contact: Gerald Grantt - ggant001@umaryland.edu
  
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