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Title: Healthy People, Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: A Public and Environmental Health Service-Learning PartnershipDescription: 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Health education programs
- Home visiting program
- Community assessment and environmental programs
- 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
- 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
- Pigtown Festival: Activities for children, health screenings, information, immunizations, linkages to services
Website:
School(s): Nursing
Contacts:
Marjorie Buchanan
410-706-5554
mbuch003@son.umaryland.edu
Community Served: Baltimore City/ Washington Village
Services Provided Other: Environmental Education
Client type: Children,Teenagers,Adults,Elderly
Physical Location: Off Campus
School System Served:
Office Location: 655 West Lombard Street SNB 662, Baltimore MD 21201
Service Location:
Program Timeframe: Continuous
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