        |
| Home > Government Affairs > Community Affairs > Programs > School of Nursing Programs |
Community Programs
in the School of Nursing
- Child Mobile Team (CMT)-Serving the needs of Children and Adolescents in Baltimore City
- Green Churches Initiative
- H3 Initiative (Healthy People Healthy Homes, Healthy Community)
- Medical Breakaway
- Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center (PAC)
- Taghi Modarressi Center for Infant Study and Secure Starts
- The Governor's Wellmobile Program
- UMB School of Nursing Department of Family and Community Health
- University of Maryland, Baltimore: Vivian T. Thomas Medical Arts Academy Summer Research Program
- 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
More on this program...
- 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
More on this program...
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- Health education programs
- Home visiting program
- Community assessment and environmental programs
- Community served: Baltimore City/ Washington Village
- Contact:
Marjorie Buchanan - 410-706-5554
mbuch003@son.umaryland.edu
More on this program...
- 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
More on this program...
- 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
- Contact:
Dr. Lindsey Grossman - 410-706-5289
More on this program...
- 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
More on this 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
More on this program...
- Description:
The University Of Maryland School Of Nursing's Department of Family and Community Health administers a comprehensive program providing mental health services to high-risk school age children at William Pinderhughes Elementary School in the Sandtown-Winchester section of Baltimore City. Through this initiative, the Department has developed a grandparent support group which serves as the foundation for a strong parent-teacher association and has established an after-school program for 3rd through 5th graders where students are exposed to activities absent from the school's curriculum such as foreign language, photography, dance, nutrition and arts and crafts.
- Community served: Baltimore City/ Sandtown
- Contact:
Kristen Bussell - 410-706-5558
bussell@son.umaryland.edu
More on this 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
More on this program...
 | |
|
