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* To volunteer for any of the programs below, please contact Brian C. Sturdivant, Coordinator of Community Affairs at (410) 706-1678

A Bridge to Academic Excellence
  • Description:
    A Bridge to Academic Excellence (ABAE) is a community service project of the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Pharmacy, formed for the purpose of improving educational, professional and social communities in the area by providing academic support to the future generation of professionals and uniting professional school organizations and area high school students through mentoring. The program was created and developed by a student at the School of Pharmacy.

    ABAE targets those high school students who wish to pursue professional careers but may have difficulty in their math, science and English classes. The program currently involves over 80 students from five Baltimore City and County high schools and over 60 tutors from the Schools of Pharmacy, Medicine, Law, Dentistry, Nursing and Social Work .

  • Community served:

  • Website: http://www.pharmacy.umaryland.edu/studentorg/ABAE/default.htm


  • Address: 20 N.Pine St. Baltimore Md 21201


  • Contact: Margaret Hayes, MS - 410-706-6586 mhayes@rx.umaryland.edu

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Baltimore Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Program
  • 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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Child Mobile Team (CMT)-Serving the needs of Children and Adolescents in Baltimore City
  • 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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H3 Initiative (Healthy People Healthy Homes, Healthy Community)
  • Description:
    The H3 Initiative includes a number of campus-community partnerships between the University of Maryland School of Nursing and the Washington Village / Pigtown Community that seeks to improve health and well-being through health promotion, with a special emphasis on rebuilding the bridge between health and the environment. Partnership activities include the following:

    H3 Initiative: St. Jerome's Head Start: Health and Safety Classroom Assessments Program (9 centers/15 classrooms)

    • Family Home Visits to children with asthma; providing family health and home environmental assessments, and health education activities
    • Health Screenings for children in 14 Head Start classrooms, including blood pressure, vision, hearing, height, weight, and BMI.
    H3 Initiative: Washington Village/Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council:
    • Talking Trash - an Earth Day Program at the Maryland Department of the Environment
    • Clean It Like You Mean It - a "trash and health" program for 4th graders at George Washington Elementary School and Paul's Place Afer 3 Program
    • Green It Like You Mean It - a program to develop and maintain pocket parks in the community, while teaching children about pollution and the role that green plants can play
    • Pigtown Clean Up Day with Americorps Team - Session with 160 Americorps Volunteers that included cleaning up and mulching the streets and parks in Pigtown.
    • Annual National Night Out Event in Carroll Park with Health Screening, Childrenýs Activities, and Health Information
    • Project YEARN: Provide health information, screening, and linkage to services for participating youth.
    H3 Initiative: Paul's Place
    • Pocket Park Management with the Paul's Place After 3 Program (after-school program for elementary school-age children), providing education about pollution, recycling, and the oxygen green plants bring to community
    • Nursing Clinic and Wellness Center with personal/family health assessment, counseling and screening clinic, home visits, and health education
    • ý Health Screenings for elementary, middle, and high school children in after school programs , including blood pressure, vision, hearing, height, weight, and BMI
    H3 Initiative: Open Gates Community Health Center
    • Health education programs
    • Home visiting program
    • Community assessment and environmental programs
    H3 initiative: George Washington Elementary School
    • Clean It Like You Mean It - a "trash and health" program for 4th graders at George Washington Elementary School in partnership with WPNPC
    • Green It Like You Mean It - a "planting and health" program for 4th graders at George Washington Elementary School in partnership with WPNPC
    • Green Thumb Program (Community School Pocket Park Management)
    • Health Screening Program for Students, including including blood pressure, vision, hearing, height, weight, and BMI
    H3 Initiative: The Power House Church
    • Evening Health Fair from 8 PM ý Midnight: Health screenings, information, immunizations, linkages to services (in partnership with Church members and Baltimore City Health Dept.)
    • Home visiting and care coordination for pregnant and parenting families
    H3 Initiative: Citizens of Pigtown
    • Pigtown Festival: Activities for children, health screenings, information, immunizations, linkages to services


  • Community served: Baltimore City/ Washington Village

  • Contact: Marjorie Buchanan - 410-706-5554 mbuch003@son.umaryland.edu

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Medical Breakaway
  • 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: Krystal Nicht - knich004@umaryland.edu

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Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center (PAC)
  • Description:
    The Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center is a nationally recognized demonstration model of interdisciplinary education and practice through the University of Maryland Schools of Nursing and Medicine. It provides an innovative interprofessional collaborative training model for pediatric residents and pediatric nurse practitioners and includes health service delivery to pediatric patients and their families. A managed care seminar series is offered to medical residents and pediatric nurse practitioner students training in the PAC. A new grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will add social work and pharmacy faculty and students to the PAC to learn along with medial residents and pediatric nurse practitioner students the concepts and skills required to practice together as a team in the care of children with chronic disease.

  • Community served: Citywide

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Taghi Modarressi Center for Infant Study and Secure Starts
  • 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 homelessness 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 have 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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The Governor's Wellmobile Program
  • Description:
    The University of Maryland School of Nursing operates five mobile health units staffed by faculty, staff and students. The purpose of the program is to take preventive and primary care directly to vulnerable uninsured and underserved populations throughout the state of Maryland. Wrap around supports needed for diagnostic and specialty services are secured through community partnerships with a variety of health care and safety net providers that include local health departments, hospitals, local physician providers and federally qualified community health centers.

  • Community served: Central Maryland, Western Maryland, Upper Shore/ Mid-Eastern Shore, and Lower Eastern Shore

  • Contact: Rebecca Wiseman - 410-706-5395 rwise002@son.umaryland.edu

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UMB Staff Senate Winter Drive
  • 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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University of Maryland, Baltimore Outreach Council
  • 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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University of Maryland, Baltimore: Vivian T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy Summer Research Program
  • 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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Upton Green
  • Description:
    The University of Maryland School of Nursing partners with Union Baptist Church, Union Baptist Head Start, and Baltimore City Health Department Division of Healthy Homes to:
    • Collaboratively address environmental health issues in the Upton community and in Baltimore City.
    • Educate churches and surrounding communities about environmental health issues.
    • Provide information on environmental health issues (i.e. lead based paint, environmental asthma triggers, demolition concerns).
    • Provide information on public health issues.
    • Help communities to become healthier and cleaner.

    Services include:

    • The creation of: presentations, flyers, posters, door hangers and bulletin inserts.
    • Environmental Assessments
    • Emergency Preparedness Assessments
    • Health Fairs
    • "Green Sunday's"
    • Public school-based activities
    • Community group activities (such as Girl Scouts)

    Each semester, a different group of undergraduate nursing students enroll in this section of the Community Nursing Clinical course. By the end of this clinical experience, nursing students will have assessed, planned, implemented, and evaluated an environmentally-based community project while observing and assuming a variety of public health nursing roles and partnering with multidisciplinary resources. Services provided may vary by semester.

    The Green Church Initiative is also beginning to work with other agencies and sites in Upton.

  • Community served: Baltimore City/ Sandtown

  • Address: UMSON 655 W. Lombard St. Baltimore, MD 21201


  • Contact: Robyn Gilden - 410-706-4803 rgilden@son.umaryland.edu

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