• 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.
Website:
School(s): School of Nursing
Contacts:
Robyn Gilden
410-706-4803
rgilden@son.umaryland.edu

Community Served: Baltimore City/ Sandtown
Services Provided:
Services Provided Other: Health and Environmental Health education, assessments, and activities
Client type: Children,Teenagers,Adults,Elderly
Physical Location: Off Campus
School System Served: Baltimore City
Office Location: 655 W. Lombard St. Rm. 665 Baltimore MD 21201
Service Location: UMSON 655 W. Lombard St. Baltimore, MD 21201
Program Timeframe: Continuous
Program Timeframe Other: Mondays
Health Fairs: None

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