Community Programs in the School of Medicine

* To volunteer for any of the programs below, please contact Brian C. Sturdivant, Coordinator of Community Affairs at (410) 706-1678
Adolescent Star Track Program
  • Description:
    The Adolescent "STAR TRACK" Program offers outreach, education and prevention services to youth, young adults, and their communities. Activities include health education programs, peer trainings, teen leadership events, prevention services (individual & group), health promotion campaigns, an HIV prevention hotline, free and anonymous HIV testing services, an interactive teen health website (www.yuhip.org), and community mobilization. STAR TRACK engages young people to take control of their health on their own terms. The program also encourages communities, adults, and teenagers, to discuss sexual health issues since young people are vulnerable to HIV and STDs. For professionals, teachers, and clinicians STAR TRACK offers technical assistance on adolescent specific issues such as identifying risk behaviors, conducting proper adolescent counseling techniques and engaging youth into care.

  • Community served: Citywide; Prince Georges County

  • Website: http://www.yuhip.org


  • Contact: Ligia Peralta - 410-328-6495 lperalta@peds.umaryland.edu

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Bridges: A Community-Based Care Management Program For Teen/Young Adult Mothers and Fathers
  • Description:
    The University of Maryland, Baltimore is implementing the BRIDGES to HEALTH/DADs Care demonstration project. The project serves underserved, low income (95% Medicaid), minority (95% African-American), pregnant and parenting teenagers (18 years old or younger), their children, the childrenýs fathers, and other family members.

    Pregnant adolescents are recruited from west Baltimore communities and randomly assigned to receive either standard adolescent prenatal clinic services or to receive the intervention. Intervention clients receive comprehensive assessments, home visits, parenting education, and computer assisted motivational interviewing (CAMI) designed to promote healthy relationships and reduce repeat pregnancy. Additional services are needs-driven and client-centered. The project has capitalized on what has been learned in serving pregnant and parenting adolescents and their families in Baltimore, MD. In CAMI sessions, the teen answers questions on a laptop computer that assess partner relationships, sexual behaviors, & risk for repeat pregnancy. Following the assessment, the trained case manager conducts motivational interviewing, a form of behavior change counseling that aims to promote healthy relationships, improve contraceptive and condom use, focus on goals, and promote school continuation. The CAMI intervention is also used with adolescent fathers to increase motivation for healthy relationships and sexual decision-making, particularly around contraceptive/ condom use.

  • Community served: Citywide

  • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/familymedicine


  • Address: Homes, Schools


  • Contact: Margo Devoe Weston, MS - 410-328-2626 mdevoe@som.umaryland.edu

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Calverton School Mental Health Initiative
  • Description:
    This initiative is enhancing the mental health services and programs at a persistently dangerous Baltimore City Public School. Calverton Elementary/Middle School by providing a full continuum of mental health services and activities. In collaboration with students, families, and school staff, the University of Maryland School Mental Health Program is striving to improve the academic, behavioral, and social-emotional success of all students. A primary goal of the project is to help reduce suspensions and expulsions, while improving behavioral interventions and overall school climate. Two major components of this initiative are a strong peer mediation group and a restorative justice group for students who have been recently suspended.

  • Community served:

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

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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. Working closely with the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, families are contacted and supported through the diagnosis process and provided ongoing grief support. The Center is also the State's Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Information and Counseling Program (SIDS). SIDS continues to be the single leading cause of death among infants. Risk reduction practices can lower the incidence of SIDS, and the Center makes every effort to educate parents, professionals and communities in risk-reduction practices through trainings, media events and literature. The most often recognized risk reduction is 'Back to Sleep,' but the messages also include all aspects of providing a safe environment for children.

    The Center currently has two state-wide efforts. The first focuses on risk reduction. All Maryland hospitals with obstetrical departments are distributing "Back to Sleep /Tummy to Play" light switch covers to approximately 70,000 parents of newborns. The covers highlight placing baby on her back to sleep, to reduce the risk of SIDS and other infant deaths, and on her tummy to play, to encourage muscle development. The second initiative targets bereaved families struggling with the immediate impact of their loss, and was conceived and funded by Center families. The Empty Arms Project provides a packet to newly bereaved parents upon leaving the emergency department. The packet contains a stuffed bear with a ribbon imprinted with the Center's toll-free number, and a card giving suggestions for coping in the next few hours and days following their child's death.

  • Community served: Statewide

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


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


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


Center for Minority Health Research
  • Description:
    The objectives of the Center for Minority Health Research are:
    1. to identify and evaluate interventions which improve the health of inner-city African-American children and youth.
    2. to advance the methodology for data gathering, implementation and evaluation of programs involving multiple and at times potentially competing health outcomes and inputs
    3. to increase the number of minority professionals involved in health services
    4. to influence local, state and national health policy and program implementation based upon these findings.
    Programs include:
    • "Focus on Kids", an HIV risk reduction program which was awarded the prestigious title of one of five programs identified nationally as "A program that works"
    • "Project Impact", which is a community-university linked research and intervention program to reduce the risk of HIV infection among urban youth by increasing parental monitoring and communication
    • "AIDS Risk Reduction among Namibian Youth", which is a collaborative effort among governmental agencies to provide a curriculum to youth in Namibia to support them in their efforts to choose futures which are free of health challenges, including HIV
    • "Youth Attitudes Toward the Police", a project that collects data in order to develop a more positive relationship between police and youth
    • "Youth Exposure to Violence and Distress", a violence prevention effectiveness trial for African-American adolescents and parents residing in public housing projects in Baltimore City
    • "T.R.A.P. - Teen Relationship Abuse Project", a project that studies the prevalence of violence among African-American youth and is developing a culturally relevant intervention.
    Training is also available to Emergency Medical Service Providers entitled, "Effective Communication and Cultural Competence in Emergency Care of the Adolescent" . The "Summer Intern Program" is also available to increase opportunities for minority students in health outcomes research.

  • Community served: Citywide; Nambia, Africa

  • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/community/minority.asp


  • Contact: Jennifer Galbraith - 410-706-4267 More on this program...


Center for School Mental Health
  • Description:
    The Center for School Mental Health within the Department of Psychiatry of the School of Medicine is a national center focused on advancing training, practice, research and policy in the emerging interdisciplinary school mental health field. It receives federal funding for national program and policy analysis, technical assistance and research, and operates programs providing evidence-based mental health promotion and intervention in the following schools in Baltimore City (25 schools) and Prince George's County (2 schools).

    Elementary Schools:

    • Charles Carroll Barrister
    • Bay Brook
    • Belmont
    • Samuel F.B. Morse
    • Westside
    Elementary/Middle Schools
    • Franklin Square
    • Thomas Jefferson
    • Kelson
    • Francis Scott Key
    • Patapsco
    • Carter G. Woodson
    Middle Schools:
    • Calverton
    • Southwest Baltimore Charter
    • Harlem Park (8th grade only)
    • Dr. Roland N. Patterson Sr. Academy
    • West Baltimore
    High Schools:
    • 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


  • Community served: Nationwide

  • Website: http://csmh.umaryland.edu


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

    Sharon Stephan - 410-706-0941 sstephan@psych.umaryland.edu

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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. C-SNAP provides direct interventions for children at risk for growth and nutrition problems, monitors the health outcomes of poor children visiting emergency rooms and acute care clinics, and educates, informs and empowers families and communities by making research results available.

  • Community served: Statewide

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

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Community Health Advocacy Team (CHAT)
  • Description:
    CHAT is a community service organization that oversees several student-run service initiatives at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. We provide medical students and medical school faculty with opportunities to learn about health care issues in our urban Baltimore community. We also encourage and support students in their endeavors to develop their own service initiatives. For anyone who wants to learn about healthcare in Baltimore or work for better healthcare in their community, CHAT is the place for you!

    For more information about CHAT initiatives, please see the database entries on the CHAT Mountain Manor Initiative and the CHAT Lunchtime Lecture Series.

  • Community served: Citywide

  • Website: http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~chat/index.htm


  • Contact: Dr. Dan Schulze - 410-706-5180 dschulze@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. Treatment programs are offered to patients who suffer from a wide range of acute and chronic problems such as low back pain, headaches, sports injuries and carpal tunnel syndrome.

  • Community served: Statewide

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


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


Connect to Protect: Baltimore (with Star Track Program)
  • Description:
    Connect to Protect: Baltimore links local researchers with community members, organizations and institutions in ways that create effective partnerships. Together, researchers work with community members to identify young adults at risk for HIV infection, determine neighborhood assets and unmet needs by examining how disease and risk patterns correspond with available services and address community needs with research-based prevention strategies that are culturally responsive and scientifically sound. Connect to Protect activities include the creation of a print and online youth service directory for Baltimore City, providing technical assistance on fund raising, grant writing and evaluation, creating user-friendly research programs, determining epidemiological data and assisting in network building between communities through organizing events and coalitions.

  • Community served: Citywide

  • Website: http://www.adolescentaids.org/c2p.html


  • Address: 21201,21217 Zip Codes


  • Contact: Kalima Young - 410-706-1928 kyoung@peds.umaryland.edu

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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.
    • Participation in the Race for the Cure- approximately 200 runners from University of Maryland participated on the University Center PT team in this annual event for breast health services in Maryland.
    • Free Continuing Education Seminar - The Department of Physical Therapy hosts a free continuing education seminar annually to help Physical Therapists in the area get their required continuing education credits.
    • Florence Kendall Symposium - Florence Kendal, a pioneer in the field of Physical Therapy is still involved in the Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Maryland. To honor her dedication to the field, we host a Florence Kendall Symposium annually where the topic of the speaker is in her area of expertise, muscle measurement. Free to all attendees.


  • 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. The center specializes in treating patients living with: HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis, Herpes, Cancers associated with viruses, Human Papilloma Virus and other general infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and Lyme disease. The Compassionate Care Program means that no one is turned away and staff works to ensure that all receive needed care. All patients are encouraged to participate in the Patient Advisory Board.

    The Clinical Center offers care in several locations:

    • 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

  • 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


  • 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. Clients collaborate with staff members to identify family and community risk and protective factors and develop a plan for services tailored to meet their specific needs. Because many people have experienced traumas our assessments, service plans, and intervention strategies are trauma-informed. The program partners with families to help them address the following needs:
  • food, clothing and housing
  • education
  • employment and training
  • health and mental health
  • substance abuse
  • family violence
  • parent education and support
  • child behavior
  • trauma exposure
  • challenges related to grandparents raising grandchildren Services offered by the program include:
  • comprehensive family assessment
  • service planning
  • crisis intervention
  • emergency assistance-provision of concrete services
  • individualized outcomes based services
  • individual, family and group counseling
  • advocacy
  • case management

Family Connections Baltimore works in cooperation with numerous agencies, schools, health care providers and the Department of Social Services. There is a strong connection to many School of Social Work endeavors to collaborate in providing services and education opportunities for Baltimore Community residents and stakeholders. In particular the Title IVE Public Education for Child Welfare Program preparing graduate social work students for family centered practice in public child welfare agencies. While community-based services continue to be the program's core focus, we are also committed to educating social workers and other professionals to use evidence-based models of practice that include attention to their own professional development and self-care. Central to this endeavor is addressing the demand of working with families exposed to multiple traumas over time. Since its inception in 1996 our staff and trainees have won numerous awards and prizes and the program has been continuously funded through government and foundation grants and contracts, as well as private donations.

  • Community served: Baltimore City/ West Baltimore

  • Website: www.family.umaryland.edu


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


  • Contact: Dr. Frederick H. Strieder - 410-706-5479 fstriede@ssw.umaryland.edu

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    • Greenbaum Cancer Cenert Nathan Schnaper Summer Student Research Internship Program
    • Description:
      Undergraduate students in arts and sciences are eligible to apply for an 8-week mentorship in Cancer Research at the University of Maryland Greenebaum Cancer Center during their summer holidays. Students will be matched to Cancer Center Faculty who will serve as mentors. Research activities of Cancer Center investigators encompass many areas that are on the forefront of interest, including cancer drug resistance, signal transduction, programmed cell death, molecular pharmacology, angiogenesis, and carcinogenesis. (p) Undergraduate College / University students in Arts and Sciences and Medical Students with good academic standing are encouraged to apply. Applications are considered on a competitive basis. (p) Accepting applications beginning: March 1, annually.

    • Community served: Statewide

    • Website: www.umgcc.org/research/summer_internships.htm


    • Contact: Bret Hassel - 410-328-2344 bhassel@som.umaryland.edu

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    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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    HIV Intervention and Prevention (HIP) Corps
    • Description:
      The University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA)fulfils its HIP-CORPS protocol each year by working with teenagers at community-based locations such as local community centers and public schools. UMB Medical Students offer this service monthly. The purpose of this initiative is to educate the local residents regarding issues pertaining to sexual health, sexually transmitted diseases, HIV prevention and decision-making skills. The presentations consist of creative, interactive activities that serve to engage participating youth and raise awareness about their health.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Website: http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~snma/index_files/page0005.htm


    • Address: No specified community-based address


    • Contact: David Bowman - 410-706-4520 dbowman@peds.umaryland.edu

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    HP- STAR Program
    • Description:
      HP-STAR, Health Professions-Student Training in Aging Research. Established in 2010 by the University of Maryland School of Medicine, the HP-STAR program provides 10-12 weeks of experience in aging-related research under the mentorship of more than 45 basic and clinical scientists. Applicants complete for 20 positions in the dental, medical, nursing, and pharmacy schools, the Baltimore Veterns Affairs Medical Center and the University of Maryland Medical Center. Students are exposed to classes in research methodology, presentation and writing skills, careers in the health professions, gain clinical geriatric exposure and make presentations on their work.

    • Community served: UMB Campus Community

    • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/osr/hp-star.asp


    • Address: 655 W. Baltimore Street, Baltimore md 21201


    • Contact: TBA - More on this program...


    Hair, Heart and Health
    • Description:
      Hair, Heart and Health (HHH) was launched in Baltimore in early 2006. It is a collaboration of the University of Maryland, Baltimore School of Medicine, the school's Community Health Awareness and Monitoring Program (CHAMP) and CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield.

      Under the leadership of SOM professor and cardiologist, Dr. Elijah Saunders, HHH utilizes trained barbers and stylists as well as CHAMP outreach workers to deliver the program in selected barber shops and hair salons.

      The barbers and stylists learn how to take a blood pressure measurement, how to provide counseling and medical referrals as indicated by the screening results, and present tips on dietary and lifestyle changes.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Address: varies


    • Contact: Ina Glenn Smith - 410-669-6340 ismith9576@aol.com

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    High School Mini Med Program
    • Description:
      University of Maryland School of Medicine students lead an eight-week (once per week) seminar course on health related topics in local high schools. The program culminates in a tour of the historic Davidge Hall, the oldest medical teaching facility in the northern hemisphere still in use located on the University of Maryland, Baltimore campus. Seminar topics are chosen by the participating school. The program incorporates both health education and career development by encouraging students to discuss health related professions and the educational requirements of those professions.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Website: None


    • Address: Varies depending on participating schools


    • Contact: Charity Ogunbo - 410-706-0657 COgunbo@som.umaryland.edu

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    High School Tours
    • Description:
      The High School Student Tours were established to bring various medical professions to life and to empower young people to make informed choices about their future careers in medicine. During the tours the students learn about preparing for and applying to medical school. Often our medical students will meet with the high school students in a question and answer session. The students will also be able to get a sense of the University of Marylandýs School of Medicineýs commitment to excellence as well as the faculty and staffs, dedication to the success of our students.

    • Community served:

    • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/osa/tours.asp


    • Contact: TBA - More on this program...


    Maryland for Mali
    • Description:
      Maryland for Mali is a student run organization that is dedicated to raising money for the Gabriel Toure Hospital in Bamako, Mali and to giving medical students the opportunity to participate in Global Health Initiatives and Advocate for Human Rights. Students in this group work with faculty from the Center for Vaccine Development to address the pharmaceutical needs of patients in the hospital.

      Students from Maryland for Mali co-host an Auction with second year medical students. Half of proceeds benefit the Gabriel Toure Hospital. In the past, Maryland for Mali has used the proceeds to purchase a supply of antibiotics.

    • Community served: Bamako, Mali

    • Contact: Cara Morin - clang001@umaryland.edu

      Kavita Ghandi - kgand001@umaryland.edu

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    Medical Breakaway
    • Description:
      Medical BreakAway is a nonprofit organization established by medical students at the University of Maryland. The organization provides opportunities for medical students of all years to volunteer in a rural community during Spring Break. The program emphasizes both medically oriented volunteer work and socially related community service projects. We hope that this will not only be a way to provide service but also be an educational opportunity for students to become more familiar with medicine in a rural setting.

      Most recently, trips have been to Wendover, KY, home of the Frontier Nursing Service. During spring break, School of Medicine students shadow doctors, nurse practitioners, and home health aides. Students also participate in community service projects at the local elementary school and at the Frontier Nursing Service. At the elementary school, students teach children about nutrition, smoking education, and college interest.

      As of 2008, Medical Breakaway has expanded their services to daycares and nursing homes.

    • Community served:

    • Address: Various rural locations.


    • Contact: Krystal Nicht - knich004@umaryland.edu

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    Mini-Med School
    • Description:
      The University of Maryland School of Medicine has offered Mini-Med School annually since the fall of 2001. Our purpose is to educate our West Baltimore neighbors about specific health conditions that affect them such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, stroke, asthma, breast cancer, and prostate cancer, and on topics that illustrate advances in medical technology. Additionally, we give community members the tools they need to identify risk factors, live a healthier lifestyle and if necessary, get treatment. Classes are held on five consecutive Wednesday evenings each fall at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD. During the Fall of 2005, the school partnered with Montgomery County's Latino Health Initiative, the University of Maryland Statewide Health Network and the Universities at Shady Grove to host a similar program for Latino communities in Montgomery County. School of Medicine faculty teach the course, which is free of charge and on a first come-first served basis.

    • Community served: Citywide; Montgomery County

    • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/minimed/


    • Address: University of Maryland School of Medicine 685 West Baltimore Street, Universities at Shady Grove in Rockville, Md.


    • Contact: Heather Graham - 410-706-1521 HGraham@som.umaryland.edu

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    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. 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

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

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    Pediatric Ambulatory Center (PAC)
    • Description:
      The Pediatric Ambulatory Care Center is a nationally recognized demonstration model of interdisciplinary education and practice through the University of Maryland Schools of Nursing and Medicine. It provides an innovative interprofessional collaborative training model for pediatric residents and pediatric nurse practitioners and includes health service delivery to pediatric patients and their families. A managed care seminar series is offered to medical residents and pediatric nurse practitioner students training in the PAC. A new grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will add social work and pharmacy faculty and students to the PAC to learn along with medial residents and pediatric nurse practitioner students the concepts and skills required to practice together as a team in the care of children with chronic disease.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Contact: Dr. Lindsey Grossman - 410-706-5289 More on this program...


    Physicians for Human Rights (PHR)
    • Description:
      Physicians for Human Rights is committed to the belief that all human beings are entitled to have their needs for basic health and safety met. PHR is committed to mobilizing health professionals to promote human rights in professional practice. The University of Maryland chapter of this national organization focuses on achieving these goals through education, community and international projects, and activism.

      Endeavors include:

      • Teaching classes at ASTT (Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma) about navigating the health care system and nutrition;
      • Providing translation services in counseling sessions at ASTT;
      • Political activism in support of the African Health Capacity Investment Act and access to HIV treatment;
      • Training sessions for UMB students on HIV patient counseling; Hosting community and campus wide events and speakers on Human Rights issues.

      Recently, PHR, the International Social Work Organization, AMSA, and the Medical School Class Council hosted "Dinner for Darfur" to educate attendees about the situation in Darfur and how to help.

    • Community served: Statewide, Nationwide, Worldwide

    • Website: http://groups.google.com/group/PHR-UMB/web/home


    • Contact: David Bowman - 410-706-4520 dbowman@peds.umaryland.edu

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    Podiatry Clinic
    • Description:
      Comprehensive foot care is offered to the community through the Department of Orthopedics - Podiatry Division. These services are available at two convenient office locations at the University of Maryland Medical System. The two locations are: University of Maryland Medical Center, Mondays, 1:00 PM - 4:30 PM, 22 South Greene Street, Ground Level, Suite NGE19, telephone number: 410.328.5870 and The University Health Center, Fridays 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM, 16 South Eutaw Street, 2nd Floor, telephone number: 410.328.4310. The offices are equipped to provide: care for common foot ailments, evaluations of diabetic foot risk factors and ongoing diabetic foot care and prompt minor surgical procedures generally cared for in an office setting.

    • Community served: Statewide

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


    • 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. The community includes decision-makers, practitioners and consumers. It includes representatives from mental health, general education, special education, and family organizations. The focus of the national community is bridging the differences across education and mental health to support youth. To pursue that work with our partners in the community, 12 practice groups have been created: Education; Connecting School Mental Health and Positive Behavior Supports; Learning the Language - Promoting Effective Ways for Interdisciplinary Collaboration; Child Welfare and School Mental Health; Family-School-Community Partnerships; Improving School Mental Health for Youth with Disabilities; Social, Emotional, and Mental Health in Schools; Connecting School Mental Health with Juvenile Justice and Dropout Prevention; Quality and Evidence-Based Practice; Psychiatry and Schools; School Mental Health for Military Families; Youth Involvement and Leadership.

      Baltimore City Public School System Staff and the larger community are all able to participate in the National community of Practice and its practice groups.

    • Community served:

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

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    School of Medicine High School Tours
    • Description:
      The High School Student Tours were established to bring various medical professions to life and to empower young people to make informed choices about their future careers in medicine. During the tours the students learn about preparing for and applying to medical school. Often our medical students will meet with the high school students in a question and answer session. The students will also be able to get a sense of the University of Maryland School of Medicine's commitment to excellence as well as the faculty and staffs, dedication to the success of our students.

    • Community served: Statewide

    • Website: http://medschool.som.umaryland.edu/osa/tours.asp


    • Contact: Dawn Roberts - 410-706-7689 droberts@som.umaryland.edu

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    School of Medicine Shadowing Program
    • Description:
      A job shadowing experience involves a student spending a day here at the University of Maryland with a professional in their area of interest. The student "shadows" one or more professionals during the experience, attempting to gain an understanding of what professionals do while they work and, at the same time identifying the links between classroom learning and work requirements.

    • Community served: Statewide

    • Website: http://medschool.som.umaryland.edu/osa/tours.asp


    • Contact: Dawn Roberts - 410-706-7689 droberts@som.umaryland.edu

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    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. 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 homelessness 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 have 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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    Tar Wars
    • Description:
      Tar Wars provides 4th and 5th grade students with interactive activities to help children understand the short term health consequences and financial costs of smoking. Additionally, we discuss how advertisers entice individuals to smoke and how students can recognize these tactics. At the conclusion of the presentation, students are invited to participate in a national poster contest.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Website: www.tarwars.org


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    The Care Clinic at the Center for Families, Department of Pediatrics, UMB
    • Description:
      The Care Clinic provides free specialized mental health treatment for children and families affected by physical or sexual abuse, or exposure to domestic violence. Treatment is provided by an interdisciplinary team from psychology, psychiatry, and pediatric medicine. We collaborate closely with community groups such as Department of Social Services, domestic violence shelters, and schools. Families are referred, provided a clinical evaluation, and then offered individual, family, or group therapy, along with advocacy and psychiatry services. In addition, Care Clinic clinicians provide training to on-campus and local agencies and community groups on the impact of child abuse and domestic violence as well as effective interventions for these issues. Finally, the Care Clinic has several opportunities for training for graduate level students in the fields of psychology and pediatrics.

    • Community served: Metropolitan Baltimore and surrounding counties

    • Address: 520 W. Lombard Street 1st floor


    • Contact: Aimee McCullough - 410-706-1142 amccullough@peds.umaryland.edu

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    The Excellence in School Health Initiative
    • Description:
      One of the key focuses of the Excellence in School Mental Health Initiative has been to help reduce barriers to learning for students in two Baltimore City Public K-8 schools (Patapsco Elementary/Middle and Bay Brook Elementary/Middle). Many of the students served at these schools have been exposed to trauma, have undiagnosed disorders, and are having difficulty learning. Our program has addressed these issues on a wide continuum using the public health triangle, from involving stakeholders and improving overall school climate, to universal prevention with Paths to Pax, secondary prevention strategies with classrooms and in group format, to individual therapy.

    • Community served:

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

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    Traveler's Clinic
    • Description:
      The UMB School of Medicine faculty in the Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) offers their services as experts in tropical medicine and infectious diseases to residents in the Baltimore - Washington area who are planning trips overseas. The clinic meets six times monthly to provide patients with information about illnesses common in countries to be visited. The travel physicians offer available vaccines, medications to prevent malaria and other tropical infections, and travel advice to help prevent those illnesses.

    • Community served: Citywide; D.C. Metro Region

    • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/CVD/travelclinic.asp


    • Contact: Robert Edelman, MD - 410-328-5196 More on this program...


    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Adult Community Support and Entitlement Services Program (ACSES)
    • Description:
      ACSES consists of the Community Support Program and the SSI Outreach Project.

      Community Support Program (CSP) The CSP is a targeted intensive case management program that is designed to meet the needs of adults with serious and persistent mental illness who require extensive community support that is not available in traditional mental health services. Staff members work closely with clinical teams to assist individuals with taking medication and keeping treatment appointments. They also help obtain a variety of other services, such as housing, medical care, social services, vocational services, rehabilitation services and public benefits.

      SSI Outreach Project The SSI project is an outreach program funded on a HUD grant through Baltimore Mental Health Systems, Inc. The program serves adults in Baltimore City who have serious and persistent mental illness. Clinical staff of the project are able to make presumptive determinations of disability and, therefore obtain income for individuals much more quickly than usual. This is the only project in the country authorized by the SSA to make such determinations for adults with psychiatric disabilities.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Contact: Barbara Wahl - 410-328-1406 bwhal@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Child Mobile Team (CMT)
    • Description:
      Serving the needs of Children and Adolescents in Baltimore City. The CMT is a program intended to meet the mental health needs of children and adolescents ages 5-18 years. The team serves children and adolescents in the community who are unable to use traditional outpatient clinic services due to the seriousness and complexity of their problems. Team members include psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and social workers. The program provides:
      • 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.


    • Community served: Citywide

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


    • Contact: Kelly Davis - 410-328-2564 Kdavis@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Harbor City Unlimited
    • Description:
      Harbor City Unlimited provides psychosocial rehabilitation services to persons with chronic mental illnesses. Services include skills training, leisure activities, substance abuse support, employment and housing. Harbor City Unlimited also operates a non-profit company called Harbor City Services which operates a storage services for medical records and a brokerage of used medical equipment.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Website: www.umm.edu/community_psych/rehabilitation.htm


    • Address: Fayette Street Clinic, Carruthers Clinic


    • Contact: Lou Woolard - 410-328-8559 More on this program...


    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Outpatient Mental Health Centers
    • Description:
      Individual therapy, family therapy, group therapy, and medication management for adults and children/adolescents. The Continuous Care Team (CCT) is a specialized intensive psychiatric and case management service for adults. The CCT works to reduce the incidence of psychiatric hospitalizations and improve the patients ability to function in the community.

    • Community served:

    • Contact: Jill RachBeisel, M.D. - 410-328-5161 jrachbei@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Programs in Assertive Community Treatment (PACT)
    • Description:
      The PACT program is an intensive psychiatric treatment and case management program designed to provide services to adults, children and adolescents who have been unable to access treatment at an outpatient clinic due to the severity of their mental illness. The team is multidisciplinary and also has consumer advocates and family outreach workers who are involved in the delivery of services. Outreach and service delivery are tailored to the patients' needs.

      The Safe Haven Shelter is a city wide shelter funded by HUD and administered by UMMS at which individuals with a history of homelessness and mental illness receive mental health services from any one of the city's mobile treatment teams.

      Through the PACT's Representative Payee Program, social security funds of patients who receive mental health services from the program are managed. The program is designed to assist individuals who are unable to manage their own funds due to the severity of their mental illness or substance abuse.

    • Community served:

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


    • Contact: Yolanda Jones - 410-328-2564 yjones@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Safe Haven Shelter
    • Description:
      Has capacity to house 20 residents and are provided 24/7 supervision, support, their own room, meals, laundry facilities, and health education. Average length of stay is 8 months. Each resident has a case manager and are connected with a mobile treatment team.

    • Community served:

    • Contact: Barbara Wahl - 410-328-1406 bwhal@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Supplemental Security Income Project
    • Description:
      Serves homeless adults who have serious and persistent mental illness. Staff are able to make presumptive determinations of disability and assist clients to obtain benefits.

    • Community served:

    • Contact: Barbara Wahl - 410-328-1406 bwhal@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Targeted Case Management
    • Description:
      Serves adults who require extensive community support that is not available in traditional mental health services. Staff assists clients to obtain treatment, housing, medical care, social services and rehabilitation, and vocational services.

    • Community served:

    • Contact: Barbara Wahl - 410-328-1406 bwhal@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Community Psychiatry: Walter P. Carter Clinics
    • Description:
      The Walter P. Carter Clinics are community mental health centers committed to providing comprehensive mental health treatment to residents of Baltimore City. The staff consists of psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses. Services are offered to people who need help with:
      • Family problems-including marital difficulties and parenting issues;
      • Life crisis
      • Chronic psychiatric illness
      • School problems
      • Psychiatric illness in combination with substance abuse

      The clinics serve adults, children and adolescents. In addition, the Continuous Care Team is an intensive psychiatric treatment and case management service designed to assist patients with persistent and severe mental illness by providing outreach and coordination of care in all aspects of treatment.

      UMMS is also contracted with Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) to provide mental health services on-site at the HCH facility. Additionally, outreach services are provided at area shelters and soup kitchens.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Address: Fayette Street Clinic 630 W. Fayette St, Baltimore, MD 21201 and Carruthers Clinic S. Charles St 4th Fl, Baltimore, MD 21230


    • Contact: Eileen Hastings - 410-328-7584 ehastings@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Division of Substance Abuse Services
    • Description:
      Substance Abuse Services provides comprehensive methadone treatment to uninsured Baltimore City residents, outpatient substance abuse treatment to uninsured patients from Baltimore City at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Program (ADAP), and outpatient suboxone treatment. Substance Abuse Services includes treatment of some adolescents from Baltimore. The hospital funded programs (Substance Abuse CL and the Pratt Street Programs) provide treatment to Baltimore residents but not exclusively so. Members of our Division of Substance Abuse have helped to form and currently volunteer with the Baltimore City Health Department's "Staying Alive" opioid overdose prevention program. Medical students see patients with faculty in this program. Department faculty also serve as medical consultants to the Baltimore Substance Abuse System's Baltimore Buprenorphine Initiative, a commitment of about 4-6 hours per month. A faculty member has also been involved with planning meetings for a Health Department/BSAS Mobile Buprenorphine project.

      The Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services at the Evelyn Jordan Clinic provides HIV infected clients with mental health and substance abuse disorders timely, culturally sensitively, high quality, coordinated, evidenced based outpatient treatment with the outcome of improving healthy functioning and quality of life. We provide treatment primarily to residents of the City of Baltimore. The clinic interacts with other service providers in Baltimore.

    • Community served:

    • Contact: Eric Weintraub, M.D. - 410-328-6690 eweintra@psych.umaryland.edu

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    University of Maryland Eye Associates: Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation (FCGCF)
    • Description:
      The Friends of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus Foundation is a foundation dedicated to supporting the activities of the Congressional Glaucoma Caucus, a non-partisan organization of members of the United States Senate whose purpose is to educate communities about the risks of glaucoma and other blindness-causing diseases. The University of Maryland School of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology received two grants from the Congressional Caucus to raise awareness and provide glaucoma screenings throughout the Baltimore area at no cost to the participants. Last year alone the Department of Ophthalmology, along with the University of Maryland Student Sight Savers, was able to screen over 1,500 participants.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Contact: Marva Smith - 410-328-7954 More on this program...


    University of Maryland Eye Associates: Student Sight Savers Project (SSSP)
    • Description:
      Raising awareness and providing free screenings for glaucoma in Baltimore, Maryland. The Student Sight Savers Project (SSSP) is a program that enhances community education and involvement in the diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma. Glaucoma screenings are performed by 83 medical students from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, and are conducted within the city of Baltimore and surrounding counties. In addition to benefiting the community, the SSSP facilitates understanding and exposure of medical students to glaucoma and the field of ophthalmology.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Contact: Marva Smith - 410-328-7954 More on this program...


    University of Maryland Hospital for Children - Breathmobile
    • Description:
      This mobile clinic, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and asthma specialists, makes stops at more than a dozen public schools in West Baltimore. The project, which is a partnership between the University of Maryland Hospital for Children and the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America, Maryland - Greater Washington, D.C. Chapter, is offering ongoing care to children with asthma. The Breathmobile is staffed by pediatric allergists, pulmonologists, a pediatric nurse practitioner, and a registered nurse, all from the University of Maryland Hospital for Children. These health care providers are able to diagnose children with asthma, offer treatment, prescribe, and in some cases, dispense medication at no charge to the families.

    • Community served: Baltimore City/ West Baltimore

    • Website: http://www.umm.edu/breathmobile/


    • Contact: Mary Beth Bollinger - 410-706-2443 More on this program...


    University of Maryland Volunteer Research Training Program
    • Description:
      The Volunteer Research Program provides a venue for exposure of students to the biomedical research environment to encourage them to pursue advanced degrees in biomedical or behavioral research and/or enter the health professions. Trainees work with faculty who conduct biomedical/behavioral research the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, Institute for Human Virology, Shock Trauma Center and Veterans Administration Medical Center. Students may also be placed at other UM campuses.

    • Community served: Statewide

    • Website: http://medschool.umaryland.edu/osr/summer_vol.asp


    • Address: UMB Campus


    • Contact: Dr. Jordan E. Warnick - 410-706-3026 jwarnick@som.umaryland.edu

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    Violence Intervention Program
    • 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.

      The "Better My World" website features free downloads of two hip-hop violence prevention music videos performed by DK aka Wayne Watts and 5th L performing artists, David Ross and Femi Lawal. The site also features Baltimore teens with personal videos to share, as well as violence prevention ringtone downloads. Students from Cristo Rey Jesuit High School and New Era Academy appear in the videos.

      Principal Investigators:
      Paul D. Stolley, MD - Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine
      Carnell Cooper, MD - UMMS - Shock Trauma Center

    • Community served:

    • Website: http://bettermyworld.org/


    • Address: 110 S. Paca Street, Baltimore, MD


    • Contact: David Ross - Ross dross2@umm.edu

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    Waxter Medical Services
    • Description:
      This community based medical center provides treatment of common illnesses, physicals, blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol screenings. The Health Monitor Program in collaboration with Baltimore City's Commission on Aging offers free physicals and flu shots to seniors 50 years and older who reside in Baltimore City.

    • Community served: Citywide

    • Address: 1000 Cathedral St. 3rd floor Baltimore Maryland 21201


    • Contact: Pat DiPasquale - 410-396-1295 pdipasquale@umm.edu

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    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. Students also receive experience in the specialty areas of Oral-Maxiollofacial Surgery, Periodontics, Orthodontics, geriatric and public health dentistry.

    • Community served: Western Maryland

    • Address: 600 Memorial Avenue, Cumberland, MD 21505


    • Contact: Terri Socha - 301-777-9150 More on this program...


    Youth Science Enrichment Program (YSEP)
    • Description:
      YSEP is a program run by the UMB chapter of the Student National Medical Association (SNMA). YSEP is designed to expose youth to science and technology at an early age. Early science interventions provide a means for participants to become excited about science, health careers, mathematics and technology and to pursue these activities in college. Studies have demonstrated that the majority of students who enter a health career had an early science experience that was enjoyable. YSEP instructors are members of the Student National Medical Association's UMB Chapter. Typically, 3-5 medical students travel to a YSEP site on a monthly basis to provide special programming for a group of 10 - 20 elementary or middle school age students. Programs are 90 to 120 minutes. Goals of the program are to:

      1. Provide a user friendly introduction / re-introduction to scientific fields;
      2. Build on the foundation provided in the science courses students have had in the past;
      3. Introduce students to the basics of science and its applications;
      4. Expose students to the diversity of science with an emphasis on those paths that may not appear to be science-based;
      5. Present all material in a concise, organized, age-appropriate manner;
      6. Facilitate discussion and encourage critical thinking on the part of participants;
      7. Tailor the presentations to the issues most likely to affect the participants.


    • Community served: Citywide

    • Website: http://davidge2.umaryland.edu/~snma/index_files/page0003.htm


    • Address: Varies depending on participating schools


    • Contact: Reney Henderson - rahenderson09@gmail.com

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