Eastern Shore Region Community Programs

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Dental

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Law

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Medicine

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Nursing

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Pharmacy

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Social Work

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Region:
Cecil County, Kent County, Queen Anne’s County, Talbot, County, Caroline County, Dorchester County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Somerset County

* To volunteer for any of the programs below, please contact Brian C. Sturdivant, Coordinator of Community Affairs at (410) 706-1678.
Campus Sponsored
Give Kids a Smile Day
  • Description:
    The University of Maryland Dental School partners with the Maryland State Dental Association to provide dental exams and flouride varnish applications to local students.

  • Address: 520 W. Lombard St, Baltimore MD 21201


  • Community served: UMB Biopark Area

  • Contact: More on this program...


Dentistry
Eastern Shore Oral Health Outreach & Lower Eastern Shore Dental Education
  • Description:
    This project employs two staff members on the Eastern Shore whose responsibility is to: 1) increase awareness of relevant oral health topics for low-income children, adolescents, and adults, including oral hygiene, disease prevention, oral cancer awareness, and tobacco cessation; 2) administer fluoride mouth rinse programs in Wicomico, Worcester, and Dorchester Counties; 3) serve as a liaison between needy families and oral health service providers; and 4) promote awareness of oral health issues across healthcare disciplines.

  • Community served: Eastern Shore Region

  • Contact: Jane Phillips, RDH - jphil008@umaryland.edu

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    Patricia Mulford, RDH - pmulf001@umaryland.edu

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HP- STAR Program
Maryland and International Brain Bee Competitions
  • Description:
    The Maryland Brain Bee is a question and answer neuroscience competition for high school students, developed by Dr. Norbert Myslinski of the Department of Neural and Pain Sciences of the University of Maryland Dental School.

  • Website: www.internationalbrainbee.com


  • Address: 650 W. Baltimore St, Baltimore MD 21201


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Dr. Norbert Myslinski - 410-706-7258 nmyslinski@umaryland.edu

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Outpatient Dental Clinics
PLUS Clinic
Predoctoral Dental Student Service Learning/Externship Program
  • Description:
    The Predoctoral Dental Student Externship Program, coordinated by the Department of Health Promotion and Policy, is a clinical education requirement at an affiliated oral health care delivery site outside the Dental School.

  • Address: varies


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Patricia J. Mcguire - 410-706-1842 pmcguire@umaryland.edu

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Special Patient Program
Western Maryland Area Health Education Center
  • Description:
    Students travel in and around Cumberland receiving multidisciplinary training and experience centered on rural health care in assigned public and private practices.

  • Address: 600 Memorial Avenue, Cumberland, MD 21505


  • Community served: Western Maryland

  • Contact: More on this program...


Law
Civil Justice, Inc.
  • Description:
    Civil Justice Inc. is a Maryland not-for-profit corporation formed for the purpose of increasing the delivery of legal services to clients of low and moderate income through a network of solo, small firm and community based lawyers who share a common commitment to increasing access to justice through traditional and non-traditional means.

  • Website: http://www.civiljusticenetwork.org


  • Address: 520 W. Fayette Street, Suite 410, Baltimore, MD 21201


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Phillip R. Robinson - 410-706-0174 CJN@civiljusticenetwork.org

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Clinical Law Programs
  • Description:
    Rule 16 of the Rules Governing Admission to the Bar of Maryland permits students who have completed one-third of their legal education to practice law in a law school clinic under the supervision of a member of the bar. The Clinical Law Program affords students the opportunity to begin the transition from law school to law practice, from learning to be a lawyer to being a lawyer.

  • Website: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/programs/clinic/index.html


  • Community served: State of Maryland

  • Contact: Michael Pinard - 410-706-4121 mpinard@law.umaryland.edu

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Leadership in Public Service
Legal Resource Center for Tobacco Regulation, Litigation, and Advocacy
  • Description:
    The Center is dedicated to providing legal and technical support to communities, community groups, employers, local governments, and others wishing to reduce the dangerous health effects of tobacco products.

  • Website: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/tobacco/


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Rita Turner - 410-706-1129 More on this program...


Maryland Public Interest Law Project (MPILP)
Medicine
Center for Infant And Child Loss
  • Description:
    The Center for Infant and Child Loss assists families as they learn to live with the sudden unexpected loss of their child (0 to 12 years of age) and to have hope for the future.

  • Website: http://www.infantandchildloss.org/


  • Address: 110 S. Paca Street, 6th Floor, Ste 300, Baltimore, MD 21201


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Jean Edwards - 410-328-4474 More on this program...


Center for School Mental Health
Children's Health Watch (formerly C-SNAP)
  • Description:
    Children's Health Watch is a three-year, multi-site study primarily funded by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation and is dedicated to measuring the possible impacts of changes to cash and food assistance on hunger and malnutrition in children under three.

  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Maureen Black - 410-706-2136 mblack@umaryland.edu

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Complementary Medicine Program
  • Description:
    Located on the Kernan Hospital campus, this inter-disciplinary center is involved in a broad range of activities investigating complementary and alternative therapies and evaluating their contribution to the care of patients.

  • Website: http://www.compmed.ummc.umaryland.edu/


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Dr. Brian Berman - 410-706-6182 More on this program...


Department Of Physical Therapy Community Efforts
  • Description:
    PT Month - In celebration of "National Physical Therapy Month" the Department of Physical Therapy sponsors a variety of events to bring Physical Therapists together and promote the profession.

  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Angel Jackson - 410-706-1816 More on this program...


Department of Epidemiology and Prevention within the Institute of Human Virology
  • Description:
    The Clinical Center of the Institute of Human Virology (IHV) provides care and support for people living with complicated viral and infectious diseases.

  • Website: http://www.ihv.org


  • Address: The Evelyn Jordan Center (outpatient care), The University of Maryland Medical Center (inpatient care), Deaton Hospital (long-term care), and IHV's Clinical Research Unit (new therapies), Maryland General Hospital


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Mary Gardner - (410) 328-6747 More on this program...


Family Connections
  • Description:
    Family Connections Baltimore is a program of the University of Maryland School of Social Work Ruth H. Young Center for Families and Children The program develops, implements, and tests community-based family strengthening services that empower families who are vulnerable to achieve safety, well-being, and stability.

  • Website: www.family.umaryland.edu


  • Address: 1701 Madison Ave., Baltimore, MD 21217


  • Community served: Baltimore City/ West Baltimore

  • Contact: More on this program...


Greenbaum Cancer Cenert Nathan Schnaper Summer Student Research Internship Program
Growth and Nutrition Clinic
  • Description:
    The Growth and Nutrition Clinic is a multi-disciplinary, family-centered clinic that provides evaluations and interventions to children under age three with growth deficiencies or feeding disorders.

  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Maureen Black - 410-706-2136 mblack@umaryland.edu

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HP- STAR Program
Nutrition Clinic - Part of the Evelyn Jordan Center
  • Description:
    The Nutrition Clinic provides counseling for adult patients with diabetes, hypertension, gastrointestinal disorders, obesity, and kidney or cardiac diseases.

  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Mary Gardner - (410) 328-6747 More on this program...


Pediatric AIDS Program
  • Description:
    The UMB Pediatric AIDS Program offers a safe environment in which families can access state of the art pediatric HIV primary care.

  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Vicki Tepper - 410-706-8220 vtepper@peds.umaryland.edu

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Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
Podiatry Clinic
  • Description:
    Comprehensive foot care is offered to the community through the Department of Orthopedics - Podiatry Division.

  • Address: 16 South Eutaw Street Baltimore Md, 22 South Greene Street, Ground Level, Suite NGE19


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Ronald L. Sherman, DPM, MBA - 410-328-4300 Rsher18@yahoo.com

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School Mental Health Community of Practice
  • Description:
    The Center for School Mental Health along with the IDEA Partnership have helped to build and are providing ongoing support to a National Community of Practice that includes federal agencies, federal technical assistance providers, national organizations and state agencies.

  • Community served:

  • Contact: Nancy Lever - 410-706-4974 nlever@psych.umaryland.edu

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School of Medicine High School Tours
School of Medicine Shadowing Program
University of Maryland Volunteer Research Training Program
Nursing
HP- STAR Program
Medical Breakaway
  • Description:
    Medical BreakAway is a nonprofit organization established by medical students at the University of Maryland.

  • Address: Various rural locations.


  • Community served:

  • Contact: More on this program...


Taghi Modarressi Center for Infant Study and Secure Starts
  • 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.

  • 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


  • Community served: Citywide

  • Contact: More on this program...


University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Child Mobile Team (CMT)
  • Description:
    Serving the needs of Children and Adolescents in Baltimore City.

  • Address: 701 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201


  • Community served: Citywide

  • Contact: More on this program...


Pharmacy
Maryland Poison Center
  • Description:
    The Maryland Poison Center has been a leader in providing poisoning and overdose care to all Marylanders since 1972.

  • Website: http://www.mdpoison.com/


  • Address: 220 Arch Street, Office Level 1, Baltimore, MD 21201-1180


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Wendy Klein-Schwartz - 410-706-7604 More on this program...


Operation Diabetes
Peter Lamy Center
Pharmacy Preceptor Clinical Sites - Eastern Shore
  • Description:
    ýEach class of 160 student pharmacists works with more than 600 preceptors in more than 300 sites throughout Maryland and beyond to complete 278,400 hours of professional experience that prepares them to become exemplary pharmacists.

  • Community served:

  • Contact: Kim Ladjabi - More on this program...


Social Work
Family Welfare Research and Training Group
  • Description:
    For over 20 years, the Family Welfare Research and Training Group, led by Dr. Catherine E. Born, has partnered with the Maryland Department of Human Resources and with local agencies in welfare and child support research, training, and policy development.

  • Website: http://www.familywelfare.umaryland.edu/


  • Address: University of Maryland School of Social Work 525 W. Redwood Street Baltimore MD 21201


  • Community served: Statewide

  • Contact: Jamie Haskel - 410-706-7310 jhaskel@ssw.umaryland.edu

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Public Allies Maryland
  • Description:
    Housed at the SWCOS main office, Public Allies Maryland is the Maryland operating partner of Public Allies, a National AmeriCorps program.

  • Website: www.publicallies.org


  • Address: 525 W. Redwood St Baltimore MD 21201


  • Community served: State of Maryland

  • Contact: Laura Bumiller - 410-706-2574 LBUMILLER@ssw.umaryland.edu

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Social Work Field Placements (Eastern Shore Region)
Taghi Modarressi Center for Infant Study and Secure Starts
  • 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.

  • 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


  • Community served: Citywide

  • Contact: More on this program...


University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Child Mobile Team (CMT)
  • Description:
    Serving the needs of Children and Adolescents in Baltimore City.

  • Address: 701 W. Pratt Street, Baltimore, MD 21201


  • Community served: Citywide

  • Contact: More on this program...