Community Programs in the School of Nursing

* To volunteer for any of the programs below, please contact Brian C. Sturdivant, Coordinator of Community Affairs at (410) 706-1678
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


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Healthy People, Healthy Homes, Healthy Communities: A Public and Environmental Health Service-Learning Partnership
  • Description:
    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.
    H3 Initiative: Washington Village/Pigtown Neighborhood Planning Council:
    • 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.
    H3 Initiative: Paul's Place
    • 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
    H3 Initiative: Open Gates Community Health Center
    • Health education programs
    • Home visiting program
    • Community assessment and environmental programs
    H3 initiative: George Washington Elementary School
    • 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
    H3 Initiative: The Power House Church
    • 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
    H3 Initiative: Citizens of Pigtown
    • Pigtown Festival: Activities for children, health screenings, information, immunizations, linkages to services


  • Community served: Baltimore City/ Washington Village

  • Contact: Marjorie Buchanan - 410-706-5554 mbuch003@son.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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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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The Governor's Wellmobile Program
  • Description:
    The University of Maryland School of Nursing (UMSON) operates one mobile health unit staffed by faculty, staff, and students. The purpose of the program is to deliver preventive and primary care directly to vulnerable uninsured and underserved populations throughout the state of Maryland. Support needed for diagnostic and specialty services is secured through community partnerships with a variety of health care and safety net providers. These include local health departments, hospitals, local physician providers, and federally qualified community health centers.

  • Community served: Laurel, Adelphi, Greenbelt, Bladensburg, Seat Pleasant (Prince George's County) and Takoma Park in Montgomery County

  • Website: http://nursing.umaryland.edu/collaborative-outreach/community-and-service


  • Address: 5 sites in Prince George's County and 1 in Montgomery County


  • Contact: Susan Antol, MS, RN - 410-706-5395 antol@son.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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