Mentors from the UMB campus include our professional students and staff from various offices within the University. The exercise also features career and financial-aid presentations and tours of UMB professional schools.

• 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.

• 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.

Elementary Schools:

• Charles Carroll Barrister
• Bay Brook
• Belmont
• Samuel F.B. Morse
• Westside

• Franklin Square
• Thomas Jefferson
• Kelson
• Francis Scott Key
• Patapsco
• Carter G. Woodson

• Calverton
• Diggs Johnson
• Harlem Park (8th grade only)
• Dr. Roland N. Patterson Sr. Academy
• West Baltimore

• 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

• 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.

• food, clothing and housing
• education
• employment and training
• health and mental health
• substance abuse
• family violence
• parent education and support
• child behavior

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.

Our focus is helping management, front-line staff, legislators, and advocates meet the many challenges associated with implementing and evaluating welfare and child support reform. We provide research, training and information services that shape and enhance policies and program for Maryland's families. In addition, we are active participants in policy workgroups, task forces, and legislative hearings.

The Research Team's primarily activity is leveraging administrative data to provide empirically-based, policy-relevant information for decision-makers in the welfare and child support fields. In addition to a number of smaller child support and welfare projects, the Group produces two report series which provide a barometer of welfare reform in Maryland: Life After Welfare, a longitudinal, nationally-acclaimed study of welfare leavers; and Life on Welfare, a series of studies focusing on the circumstances of special populations in the current welfare caseload.

Our Paternity Affidavit Information Reporting Unit (PAIR) manages the state's voluntary paternity acknowledgement database and provides a valuable Faxback service to local workers who need to obtain copies of affidavits quickly.

Our Policy and Skills Training Team (PSTT) provides professional classroom training on a variety of pertinent topics for both state and local staff involved with welfare reform.

• SWOA 703 Program Management: Students work with a service program to identify challenges, recommended solutions, and create an Action Plan and Logic Model.
• SWOA 704 Community Organization: Each person, either individually or in a small group, will participate in or initiate a community organizing project.
• SWOA 705 Community Economic Development: Students select an economically distressed neighborhood or community and develop a revitalization initiative that is "doable". Interviews with key informants in the community are required.
• SWOA 732 Resource Development for Nonprofit Groups: Each student selects a nonprofit organization, completes a fundraising readiness assessment, and actually plans and solicits funds for their chosen nonprofit. Students also write and submit a grant proposal which supports a service or activity that the organization operates or wishes to operate.
• SWOA 735 Social Work and Social Action: students will choose a social action project that involves working as a group to address a local, state, or federal issue or problem. Each student will run a class "meeting" during the semester in order to facilitate group decision-making regarding goals, strategy, and action steps necessary to conduct the social action project. Each student will be required to accept responsibility for carrying out action steps identified during meetings and will be held accountable for completing those items.
• SOWK 781 Research Methods for Management and Community Practice: Groups of students conduct a qualitative, quantitative, or mixed methods study of a program or organization. Students conduct data analysis, and interpret and utilize findings to enhance organizational and community functioning.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Karen Hopkins, PhD - 410-706-1496 khopkins@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  A collaborative program between six Masters-level students who are awarded an MCH Leadership Scholarship and Doctoral-level students who are awarded an MCH Pre-doctoral Fellowship, the program aims to train the next generation of leaders in the MCH field. The selected trainees organize an interdisciplinary minimester course and community service project, complete a mock RFA, present a professional presentation, develop a maternal and child health leadership portfolio, and apply for the Presidential Management Fellows Program or an approved equivalent program.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://cmchswe.umaryland.edu/mch_leadership/



• Contact: Ed Pecukonis, PhD - 410-706-7533 epecukonis@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• 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
  
  
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• Description:
  CPHA is the place where community leaders and citizens come together, across the usual boundaries and divisions, to make life better at the neighborhood level and at the regional level. CPHA is also building on its long tradition of advocacy for policies that will provide the quality of life. Currently, CPHA has the lead role in advocating for a city-wide inclusionary housing bill and an affordable housing trust fund to insure that the city and its neighborhoods remain diverse. As other examples of field assignments, MACO students assigned to CPHA in the past have organized residents around sanitation, housing and public transit, advocated for funding and enforcement and helpful with research, technical assistance and training.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Contact: Dick Cook - 410-706-5130 Dcook@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  SWCOS interns provide individual, group and family counseling, play therapy, crisis intervention, peer mediation, skill development, and advocacy for children and their families. In addition, SWCOS interns develop and facilitate other initiatives for students, parents, school staff, and the communities they serve.
  
  
• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://ssw.umaryland.edu/explore/swcos/index.html



• Contact: Dick Cook - 410-706-5130 Dcook@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  Working from the SWCOS main office, social work interns will assist grassroots community organizations to build capacity in order to sustain themselves and achieve their missions. Interns will assist with program assessment, strategic planning, fundraising, Board development, etc., following a mentorship model.
  
  
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• Contact: Dick Cook - 410-706-5130 Dcook@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  This study is a multi-year qualitative study that is designed to assess how social work doctoral students learn to and adapt to teaching. From qualitative interviews, findings will be interpreted.
  
  
• Community served: Statewide
  
  
• Contact: Julianne Oktay, PhD - 410-706-3831 joktay@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Sites in the Eastern Shore Region include:

  Caroline County: Caroline County Department of Social Services

  Cecil County: Cecil County Department of Social Services; Family Services Association, Inc.; Upper Bay Counseling; VA Maryland Health Care System-Perry Point

  Talbot County: For All Seasons, Inc.; Talbot County Department of Social Services
  
  

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• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Sites in the Southern Maryland Region include:

  Calvert County: Calvert County Department of Social Services, Calvert County Health Department Crisis Intervention Center; Calvert Hospice

  Charles County: Center for Children, Inc.; Charles County Department of Social Services; Charles County Health Department

  St. Mary's County: Alternatives for Youth and Families
  
  

• Community served: Southern Maryland Region
  
  
• Website: http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/field_education/



• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Sites in the Western Maryland Region include:

  Allegany County: The Jefferson School at Finan Center

  Washington County: Behavioral Health Services of Washington County Hospital; Brook Lane Health Services; Cedar Ridge School; Department of Safety and Correctional Services; Turning Point A Program of Way Station; Washington County Department of Social Services; Washington County Health Department- The Cameo House
  
  

• Community served: Western Maryland Region
  
  
• Website: http://www.ssw.umaryland.edu/field_education/



• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Sites in different states, Nationwide, and Washington D.C. include:

  Diffent States: Capital Hospice (VA); Center for Multicultural Services (VA); Children's Home of York (PA); Council on Accreditation (NY); Fairfax County Mental Health Student Training Program (VA); Family Service Partners (PA); VAMC Martinsburg (WV); Wellspan Behavioral Health (PA)

  Nationwide: American Pain Foundation; Amtrak EAP; Association of Flight Attendants, EAP; Children's National Medical Center- Department of Family Services; Division of Immigration Health Services; IASWR (Institute for the Advancement of Social Work Research); Inova Fairfax Hospital; International Social Service- USA Branch; Kidspeace National Centers; Leagal Aid Bureau, Inc.; (NASW) National Association of Social Workers; National Center for Children and Families; National Children's Center, Inc.; National Council of La Raza; National Institutes of Health, Clinical Center; National Naval Medical Center; U.S. Senate- Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski; Social Security Administration; U.S. Census Bureau; U.S. Center for Refugees and Immigrants; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, HRSA, MCH; U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; U.S. House of Representatives' Office of Employee Assistance; Walter Reed Army Substance Abuse Program; Walter Reed Army Medical- Department of Social Work; Washington Cancer Institute, WHC; Washington Hospital Center; White House Office of National Drug and Control Policy

  Washington, D.C.: Anchor Mental Health Association; Columbia Heights Shaw Family Support Collaborative; Community Connections; Community Hospices of Washington; Cope, Inc.; Counseling Center- Catholic University of America; Covenant House Washington; D.C. Child and Family Services Agency- Training Services; D.C. Department of Youth Rehabilitation Services; D.C. Rape Crisis Center; D.C. Department of Mental Health; D.C. Public Schools, Office of Bilingual Education; E.L. Haynes Public Charter School; Family and Medical Counseling Services, Inc.; High Road Schools of Washington, D.C.; Ioana Senior Services; Kidspeace; Latin America Youth Center; Legal Aid Society of the Distric of Columbia; Lisner-Louise-Dickson-Hurt Home; Lt. Joseph R. Kennedy Institute of Catholic Community Services; Thurgood Marshall Public Charter High School; VAMC Washington, D.C.
  
  

• Community served: Nationwide
  
  
• Website: https://cf.umaryland.edu/ssw_fieldeducation/



• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Sites in Baltimore City include: Addiction Services UMMC; Adelante Familia/St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore; Adopt-A-House Development Corporation; Baltimore Behavioral Health; Baltimore City Department of Social Services; Baltimore City Health Department; Baltimore City Public Schools; Baltimore City State Attorney's Office Felony Family Violence Division; Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc.; BCCC Upward Bound Program; BD Health Services, Inc.; Business Health Services; Casa of Maryland; Casey Family Services; Center for Infant Study/PACT Therapuetic Nursery; Chase Brexton Health Services; Chesapeake Center for Youth Development; Children's Choice of Maryland, Inc.; Children's Guild; Circuit Court for Baltimore City; Circuit Court Medical Services Division; Community Mediation Program; Crossroads Centers @ Mileston; Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; Department of VA Medical Center; Family Connections; FCS (Florence Crittenton Services); Goodwill Industries of the Chesapeake; Governor's Office for Children; Habel Prevention and Recovery Center; Harbor City Unlimited; Health Care for the Homeless; HERO (Health Education Resource Organization, Inc.); Hearing and Speech Agency; High Road School of Baltimore City; Hopkins ElderPlus; House of Ruth Maryland; Innovations Institute; Jewish Community Services; Johns Hopkins Bayview Adult Outpatient Community Psychiatry; Johns Hopkins Bayview Care Center; Johns Hopkins Bayview Child and Adolescent Community Psychiatry; Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center- Poverty and Depression Center; Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center- Department of Social Work; Johns Hopkins Community Physicians-East Baltimore Medical Center; Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Mental Health Partnership; Joseph Richey Hospice; Kennedy Krieger Family Center; Kennedy Krieger Institute; Keswick Adult Day Services; Keswick Multi-Care Center; Kipp Ujima Village Academy, Kipp Carrera; Levindale Hebrew Geriatric Center and Hospital; Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services; Man Alive, Inc.; Maryland Cash Campaign; Maryland Center for Veterans' Education and Training; Maryland Citizen's Health Initiative; Maryland Counseling Network; Maryland Department of Aging; Maryland State Office of Rural Health; Maryland Department of Human Resources; Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, Inc.; Mental Health Association; Mercy Medical Center; Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital; Mountain Manor Treatment Center; New Foundations School; New Pathways; North Baltimore Center, Inc.; Office of the Public Defender; Paul's Place; People Encouraging People, Inc.; Powell Recovery Center; Project Plase; Rebuilding Together Baltimore; RHIC (Resevoir Hill Improvement Council); Senior Friendly Neighborhoods; Sanai Hospital of Baltimore; SWCOS (Social Work Community Outreach Services); St. Agnes Hospice; St. Elizabeth School; Suited to Succeed; The ARC of Baltimore; The ARK; The Family Tree; Title IV-E Education for Public Child Welfare Program; Total Health Care, Inc.; Tuerk House; UMB Clinical Law Office; UMB Office of Goverment and Community Affairs; UMMS; UMMS-EAP; UMMS Division of Community Psychiatry WPC Clinic; UM School Mental Health Program and Center for School Mental Health Analysis and Action; Taghi Modarresi Center for Infant Studies and Secure Starts; Union Memorial Hospital Department of Psychiatry; United Way of Central Maryland; Upper Chesapeake Medical Center; Women's Growth Center; Woodbourne Center; YANA (You Are Never Alone), Inc.
  
  

• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: https://cf.umaryland.edu/ssw_fieldeducation/



• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Baltimore City sites are listed separately from Baltimore Region sites due to size limit. Sites in the Baltimore region include:

  Anne Arundel County: Affiliated Sante; Amerigroup; Anne Arundel County Department of Aging and Disabilities; Anne Arundel Public Schools C/OGLENADE Elementary; Anne Arundel County Social Services; Chrysalis House; Johns Hopkins Health Care; NSA Employee Assistance Services; Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health; Robert A. Pascal Youth and Family Services; UMB Office of Government and Community Affairs; Vesta

  Baltimore County: Arrow Project; Baltimore County Department of Aging, Baltimore County Department of Social Services; Baltimore County Public Schools; BD Health Services, Inc.; Challengers Independent Living; Charlestown Retirement Community/(Independent Living); Creative Kids, Inc.; Hannah More School; Harbour School at Baltimore; Hopewell Cancer Support; Hospice of Baltimore; Jewish Community Center of Greater Baltimore; Jewish Volunteer Connections; Keypoint Health Services; Mentor Maryland Baltimore Children's Services; Mosaic Community Services, Inc.; My Brother's Keeper; Northwest Hospital Center, Oakcrest Village; Partners in Recovery; Pearlstone Conference and Retreat Center; Presbytery of Baltimore; Shepard Pratt Health System; Spring Grove Hospital Center; St. Joseph's Medical Center; St. Vincent's Center; The Children's Home; The Stone Foundation; Turnaround, Inc.; Villa Maria Continuum; Weinberg Cancer Institute at Franklin Square Hospital Center

  Carroll County: Carroll County Department of Social Services; Carroll County Youth Service Bureau; Carroll Hospital Center Behavioral Health; Carroll Hospital Center Case Management; Copper Ridge; Family and Children Services of Central Maryland; Springfield Hospital Center

  Harford County: Catholic Charities Center for Family Services; Core Service Agency of Harford County-Office on Mental Health; Family and Children Services of Central Maryland; Harford County Department of Social Services; Harford County Health Department; Harford Memorial Hospital; Harford Memorial Hospital Behavioral Health Unit; The Arrow Center for Education

  Howard County: Baptist Family and Children's Services; Clifton T. Perkins Hospital Center; Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services; Domestic Violence Shelter of Howard County; Family and Children's Services of Central Maryland; Homewood Learning Center; Howard County Department of Social Services; Humanim; Patuxent Institution; Phillips School-Laurel; Shepard Pratt Health Systems at Ellicott City; Vantage House; Winter Growth, Inc.
  
  

• Community served: Baltimore Region
  
  
• Website: https://cf.umaryland.edu/ssw_fieldeducation/



• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  School of Social Work students are required to spend between 16-24 hours per week engaged in field education. Students are assigned to an organization, where they contribute a variety of social work skills in exchange for learning experiences. Students engage in clinical, management, and/or community organization work in the following areas: Aging; Families and Children; Health; Mental Health, and; Social Action and Community Development.

  Sites in the Washington Region include:

  Frederick County: Behavioral Health Partners of Frederick; CASS (Community Agency School Services); Frederick County Department of Social Services; Frederick County Development Center; Frederick County Substance Abuse; Mental Health Management Agency; Villa Maria of Frederick County: A Behavioral Health Program of Care Charities; Way Station

  Montgomery County: Asbury Methodist Village/Kindley Assisted Living; CBH Life Skills; Clinical and Forensic Associates; Collingswood Nursing and Rehabilitation; Community Connections- Silver Spring; Family Services Agency; Family Support Center; First Advantage Workplace Services; Fox Chase Rehabilitation and Nursing Center; Guide Youth Services, Guide Program, Inc.; Hearts and Homes for Youth; Hebrew Home; Holy Cross Adult Day Center; Holy Cross Hospital- Case Management; Housing Opportunities Commission; Interfaith Works CMMC of Montgomery County; Jewish Foundation for Group Homes; Jewish Foundation Social Services Agency; Jewish Foundation Social Services Agency for Older Adults; Lifework Strategies (Your Advocate); Linkages to Learning/Guide Program/School Mental Health Services; Montgomery County Commission for Women; Montgomery County Correctional Facility-Re-entry Unit; Montgomery County Crisis Center Department of Health and Human Services; Montgomery County HHS Child Welfare Division; Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers Program; Montgomery County Office of the Public Defender; Montgomery County Pre-Release Services; Montgomery County Public Schools EAP; Montgomery General Hospital, AMHC; Montgomery Hospice-Casey Hospital; Pathways Schools; Plan of Maryland-D.C., Inc.; Potomac Ridge Behavioral Health-Rockville; Pulmonary Hypertension Association; Reginald S. Laurie Center for Infants and Young Children; Second Genesis, Inc.; Shady Grove Adventist Hospital; Shady Grove Nursing and Rehab/Kingshire Manor Assisted Living; St. Luke's House; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration; Suburban Hospital; The Tree House Assessment Ctr. of Montgomery County; Threshhold Services; YMCA Youth and Family Services-Cabin John; YMCA Youth and Family Services-Silver Spring

  Prince George's County: Children and Parents Program; College Park Youth and Family Services (Youth Services Bureau); Contemporary Services, Inc.; FSAP-UMCP; Good Child in the Making, Inc.; Greenbelt Cares Youth and Family Services Bureau; HCR Manor Care Lare Largo; High Roads Schools of Prince George's County; House of Ruth Maryland Prince George's County; Laurel Regional Hospital; Maryland Crime Victims's Resource Center; Maryland Multicultural Youth Centers; Pregnancy Aid Centers, Inc.; Prince George's County Department of Social Services; St. Mary of the Mills School and Church; University Health Center, Mental Health Services; Vesta, Inc.-Latham; Williams Life Center, Inc.
  
  

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• Website: https://cf.umaryland.edu/ssw_fieldeducation/



• Contact: Alethea Schmall - 410-706-2357 aschmall@ssw.umaryland.edu
  
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• Description:
  SWCOS concentrates its efforts in vulnerable communities and with people who have been marginalized:

  To identify and build the capacities of individuals, families, communities and community-based organizations to solve their problems;

  To demonstrate that the problems our society faces are solvable by creating, implementing, evaluating and publicizing model solutions;

  To demonstrate to the larger society that all of its members have something valuable to contribute to the problem solving process;

  To remind people that inclusion and participation of all will lead to more effective solutions;

  To inspire people to enter this exciting struggle for social justice and to create new professional roles in this struggle; and

  To inspire and strengthen the profession to take a stronger role in the solution of society's problems.

  SWCOS operates a variety of innovative programs in the Baltimore area, many of which are collaborative efforts with community organizations. The program's impact is far reaching through development, implementation and evaluation of effective outreach and community based services for underserved individuals, families and communities. Community based services are provided by graduate social work interns who are supervised by faculty. SWCOS touches the lives of thousands of Maryland citizens each year in its collaborative efforts.
  
  

• Community served: Citywide
  
  
• Website: http://ssw.umaryland.edu/explore/swcos/index.html



• Contact: Dick Cook - 410-706-5130 Dcook@ssw.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:
  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 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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