PFRH Noon Seminar
September 11, 2013
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Mission
To serve as a catalyst that brings together the
resources of Johns Hopkins Institutions with the
City of Baltimore, and especially East Baltimore
to improve the community’s health and wellbeing, and in so doing serve as a model of
community-university collaboration regionally
and nationally.
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Goals
• To serve as a primary portal between JHI and Baltimore
• To serve as a forum that brings JHI and community
leaders together
• To collaborate on efforts aimed to improve the health
and well-being of our community
• To help strengthen the capacity of the Baltimore
community
• To initiate long-term, sustainable interventions in
conjunction with existing resources that improve the
health and well-being of the citizens of Baltimore
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Core Content Areas and Activities
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Health Services and Programs
Community-University Engagement
Academic Engagement
Education Engagement
Community Engagement/Capacity
Building
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Health Services and Programs
• J-Chip
• East Baltimore Health Empowerment
Zone
• PCORI grant: collaborator with medical
school
• Health and Wellbeing of Baltimore’s
Children,Youth and Family Report
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Health Services and Programs
Community Health Initiative
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All Partners’ Working Group
Hired and trained data collectors from 5 zip codes
(Assets mapping)
Completed 185 interviews with community
residents
Working with team of community residents and
Hopkins students to code and analyze qualitative
data
Analysis to be completed Fall 2013
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Academic Activities
• Baltimore Researchers’ Dinners
• Small Grants Awards: undergraduate, graduate
and faculty
• Coordinate Brown Scholars’ Program
• Coordinate symposium on The Social
Determinants of Health
• President’s Award for Research that Improves the
Health and Wellbeing of Baltimore
• Reverse Research Day
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UHI Research Activities
• You Gotta Have Faith: R21 collaboration with
community-based faith organization to study role of
Black Church in adolescent reproductive health.
• Community-Based Assets Mapping Project: Part
of CHI to assess neighborhood-based human capital
upon which to develop community initiatives.
• The Access Partnership (TAP) Evaluation
• Health in Baltimore Report: city-side data report
focusing on the health and well-being of children and
families in Baltimore
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Community Engagement Activities
• Baltimore Dialogues:
group discussions which use a book
written by a local author on Baltimore as a vehicle for discussing
issues such as Hopkins relationships with the community as well as
issues such as race and racism in Baltimore
– Sept 30: discussion w Marisela Gomez on Race, Class, Power, and
Organizing in East Baltimore
– Dec 16: discussion w F. Michael Higginbotham on Ghosts of Jim Crow:
Ending Racism in Post-Racial America
– Mar 6: discussion w Dorothy Roberts on Fatal Invention: How Science,
Politics and Big Business Re-Create Race in the 21st Century
• Henrietta Lacks Memorial Award: recognizes
community-university partnerships (Saturday, October 5)
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Community Engagement Activities
• Quarterly Symposia: Dorothy Roberts, Tony
Iton (invited)
• Third Tuesday Seminars: how social determinants
impact children’s academic achievement
• The Social Determinants of Health Symposium:
April 28.
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Community Capacity Building
Workshops
– Creating Sustainable Partnerships (October 16,
2013)
– Diversifying Funding Sources/Multi-year Budgeting
– Program Evaluation
– Grant writing
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Education Engagement
• Henderson-Hopkins-Weinberg Early Childhood
Development Center
• Undergraduate and Graduate level course
development on urban health and development
• JHU Community-Based learning Advisory Board
• Engagement with Baltimore City Public Schools
– Evaluation of Community Supports for Schools Initiative
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Development of School climate survey
Chair Interagency taskforce of school-based non-academic services
Assist Incentive Mentoring Program in developing an evaluation
Co-Chair monthly research meetings with BCPS
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Communications
• Quarterly Newsletter
• Weekly updates to listserv
• Expanded Social Media Presence
– UHI YouTube Channel
– Facebook and twitter
• SDH summary and briefs
• Small Grants: Lessons Learned Report
• Health of Baltimore’s CYF Report Briefs
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