Campus Sponsored Community Programs

Title: 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.
Website: http://www.schweitzerfellowship.org/features/us/bal
School(s): Campus Sponsored
Contacts:
Bob Kirk
410-706-0611
dl-schweitzer@umaryland.edu

Community Served: Communities vary depending on specific project
Services Provided: Other
Services Provided Other: Projects vary depending on Fellow interest
Client type: Children,Teenagers,Adults,Elderly
Physical Location: On Campus,Off Campus
School System Served:
Office Location: 522 W. Lombard St, Baltimore, MD 21201
Service Location: 621 W. Lombard Street, Room #321 Baltimore, MD 21201
Program Timeframe: Continuous
 Health Fairs:
Volunteers: Yes

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