Committed to the Community: Johns Hopkins in
East Baltimore
A Strong Commitment to East Baltimore
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Johns Hopkins is proud to partner with residents, community leaders and elected officials to bring new opportunities to East Baltimore.
he Johns Hopkins campus in East Baltimore is many things—a vibrant economic hub with more than 25,000 employees; a world-renowned medical center; and the home of groundbreaking research and education in medicine, public health and nursing. The premier institutions housed on this 52-acre campus have made life better in Baltimore and for countless millions of people around the region, nation and world. Today, the Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions in East Baltimore and the people who work there are also more determined than ever to be good community partners. In dozens of ways large and small, Johns Hopkins is working with its neighbors to reach a shared goal: building a stronger community with bright opportunities for all. Some projects are highly visible, such as the New East Side project, which Johns Hopkins has joined as a partner with federal, state and local government; area foundations; and other institutions. Overseen by East Baltimore Development Inc. (EBDI), this enormous project will transform much of the area north of the Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus, create new housing for people of all incomes and provide new economic opportunities for people who live and work in the community. Other recent initiatives are profoundly benefiting the health and well-being of the area. For example, the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute is bringing new community-based approaches to health care, with a focus on the critical issues confronting disadvantaged city residents. Johns Hopkins is also playing a role in dozens of community projects— tutoring youngsters in the evening, reaching out to provide better health services to the area’s growing Hispanic population and mentoring students struggling to get through high school. Altogether, the Johns Hopkins Institutions invest well over $100 million annually in initiatives and care designed to help the community meet its critical needs; in many cases, Johns Hopkins partners with others—government agencies, community groups, local schools, businesses and residents. This report provides an overview of some of these efforts, focused not on institutions but rather on the people who are committed to making a difference in their community.
The Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus: • Has more than 25,000 employees • Has more than 1.7 million patient visits a year • Generates more than $6.5 billion in economic activity for the neighborhood, city and region • Offers more than 130 community programs to serve the residents of East Baltimore • Spends well over $100 million annually to support community benefit programs
The Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus includes: • The Johns Hopkins Hospital, consistently ranked the best hospital in the country by U.S. News & World Report • The School of Nursing, a top-ranked school with more than 600 students • The School of Medicine, one of the best in the nation • The Bloomberg School of Public Health, the largest public health school in the world and consistently ranked best in the nation
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We’re trying to do a lot of things to improve lives, and it’s making a difference. HEBCAC allows us to have our own voice
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as a community. It gives us the strength to carry out programs and do things that are needed.
— Elroy Christopher, board member, Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition
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Elroy Christopher (right) is a member of the board of the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition and an active leader in building a stronger community.
Stronger and Safer
lroy Christopher—“Big Chris” to his neighbors—has lived in the same block of Luzerne Avenue for two decades. He has witnessed its struggles with crime and drugs, and now he is seeing its resurgence. In recent years, homeowners have begun to take great pride in their blocks, with planters out front and shiny brass light fixtures newly attached to many of the red brick row homes. Christopher and his neighbors, including many young people, are at the center of it all. “We’re trying to do a lot of things to improve lives, and it’s making a difference,” he says. An abandoned lot behind his house has steadily been turned into a large fenced garden, complete with picnic pavilions, barbecue grills and plantings galore. This community-created space, known as the Garden of Eden, provides a site for such activities as a day camp in the summer and an annual Christmas party for hundreds of kids. Some of the community progress has been fueled by the work of the Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition, which Christopher serves as a board member. HEBCAC was founded in 1994, following a careful planning process that brought together neighborhood associations, business owners, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions representatives and government officials. With ongoing financial support from Johns Hopkins and other partners, HEBCAC serves the community in many ways, for example, distributing grants to homeowners to improve the appearance of their homes, planting hundreds of trees and contributing to projects such as the Garden of Eden. HEBCAC also provides critically needed training to local residents in such areas as computer repair and GED preparation. Renovations to a HEBCACowned former factory building on North Milton Avenue will provide new community meeting space and offices for several nonprofit groups. “HEBCAC allows us to have our own voice as a community,” Christopher says. “It gives us the strength to carry out programs and do things that are needed.”
SPACE TO Grow HEBCAC recently renovated an abandoned factory building on North Milton Avenue, providing new offices for nonprofit groups and space for training programs and community activities.
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I really enjoy working with the students. I just encourage them to be good nurses.
I remind them that caring is part of the cure.
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— Carrie Kearney, volunteer, Isaiah Wellness Center
Reaching Out
to Senior Citizens
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Carrie Kearney brings a lifetime of experience to Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing students. Her community health nursing experience, together with her understanding of the East Baltimore community, provides a unique perspective to students.
arrie Kearney, a resident of Apostolic Towers Apartments for the past two years, is putting to work the skills she mastered during a 30-year nursing career at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She volunteers for the Isaiah Wellness Center, a community outreach program, sponsored by the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, for the seniors at her high-rise apartment building. Kearney, who is 80, encourages her fellow residents to take part in the wellness programs, which include exercise and diet management as well as painting and poetry classes. “She knows the community, and she knows how to be a peer teacher,” says Carm Dorsey, an instructor at the School of Nursing who manages the center two days a week. Kearney also reaches out to another critical target group: student nurses from Johns Hopkins. Part of her role is to teach them about the realities of living in poverty, equipping them to better serve the community as nurses. “Students really benefit from understanding how people struggle every day in a community of poverty,” Kearney says. She is a regular speaker at nursing classes, and student nurses working at the center frequently come up to her apartment to chat. “I really enjoy working with the students,” she says, beaming as she shows off their letters thanking her for her insights. “I just encourage them to be good nurses. I remind them that caring is part of the cure.” Along with the wellness center, Johns Hopkins supports several initiatives to help the elderly, including Experience Corps, a volunteer program in which older adults tutor and mentor in Baltimore City schools; Amazing Grandmothers, which assists caregivers who are raising their grandchildren; and a program in which public health nursing students offer health-promotion lessons in four senior apartment buildings. In all, more than 1,500 seniors are involved in these programs each year.
Creative Outlets “Before we started the artists’
classes through the Isaiah
group, I didn’t know if I could
Wellness Center, sponsored by
draw a box,” says Catherine
the Johns Hopkins University
Williams (top left), who now
School of Nursing. Both skills
exhibits (and sometimes sells)
have blossomed over time.
her paintings around Baltimore.
“I look at everything with
A resident of Apostolic Towers
different eyes now,” she says.
Apartments, she signed up for
“Wherever I go, I study the art
art lessons and poetry writing
on the walls, to see how they did it and what I can capture.”
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I think it’s a wonderful thing to rebuild this area and to give the former residents an opportunity to come back.
It’s a tremendous idea.
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— Frances Nicholas, new resident, Park View at Ashland Terrace senior housing
Creating New Opportunities in the Community
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Devoted to her church and her neighborhood, Frances Nicholas shares a moment with Pastor Carl J. Solomon of the United Baptist Church on Eager Street.
remarkable transformation is taking place north of the Johns Hopkins campus in East Baltimore. EBDI’s New East Side project is rebuilding and renewing structures and communities and giving new hope to an area that has struggled economically for years. The final result will be as many as 2,150 new and rebuilt homes for people of all incomes, the creation of thousands of jobs for people at all skill levels, new commercial and retail space, and state-of-the-art facilities for the rapidly expanding life sciences field. While many cities have undergone such redevelopment, no large-scale project in the country has provided more support and assistance to affected members of the community. Expansive relocation services have helped many residents find suitable housing. And the Baltimore-based Annie E. Casey Foundation has overseen a major effort to provide comprehensive services for East Baltimore residents, ranging from job training and financial counseling to health care and youth employment help. The first occupants of the project’s new housing moved in during the fall of 2007. Among them is Frances Nicholas, 70, who now lives in the new senior-only Park View at Ashland Terrace, at the corner of Broadway and Eager streets. Nicholas had lived in East Baltimore for three decades but moved to Catonsville in 2001. Her heart, though, remained in East Baltimore because of her strong ties to United Baptist Church, her spiritual home. Now back in the neighborhood, she can walk to church, less than a block away, as well as to Johns Hopkins medical facilities, Northeast Market and other destinations. “It’s good for me. I can walk places and I don’t have to bother the children to take me,” Nicholas says. Her new apartment already feels like home, filled with photos of her children and grandchildren. Former neighbors from East Baltimore live across the hall and upstairs, providing an immediate sense of community. “I think it’s a wonderful thing to rebuild this area and to give the former residents an opportunity to come back,” she says. “It’s a tremendous idea.”
A brand-new home Dorothy Powell, 65, is pleased to be living in a new, safe and affordable apartment in the Park View at Ashland Terrace apartments, part of the first phase of the New East Side project. She left behind a rowhouse apartment in a neglected block of Collington Avenue, now being redeveloped. “The move was hard but worth it,” she says. “I’m in a brand-new place. I’m glad.”
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When a person comes here we try to make them feel right at home and provide them the
support and services they need.
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— Annie Coples, community health worker, Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute
Nurturing
Healthier Families
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Each day brings unexpected appointments and developments to Annie Coples. On this day she was checking up on Patricia Smith (left) and Joyce Gough (right), who is expecting a baby.
nnie Coples knows East Baltimore and its people as well as anybody. As a Johns Hopkins community health worker, she uses her knowledge to help residents cope with a range of issues. The 48-year-old acts at times as social worker or nurse, advocate or adviser. “When a person comes here we try to make them feel right at home and provide them the support and services they need,” Coples says. “We try to get them plugged in to where they need to be.” The community health worker program, part of the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute, works out of a narrow office on East Monument Street. But its workers spend much of their time in the community—taking blood pressure measurements at nearby Northeast Market, visiting clients at their homes or going door-to-door to ask residents if they need assistance. Among Coples’ clients are about 60 young pregnant women. She visits them regularly to make sure they’re getting checkups and taking care of their health. Some clients require advice about getting health insurance or treatment. Others need to be reminded to take their medication. Many are in crisis and desperately need guidance in finding housing or transportation. Coples can usually assist with all of it, and no matter the issue, she remains calm and patient. “I get personal with all of my clients,” she says. “Everybody’s my child.”
Urban Health Institute Johns Hopkins established the
Through ongoing conversation with
Urban Health Institute in 2000 to
area residents, the institute will
better understand and meet the
continue to provide the services most
needs of the local community.
critically needed in the community.
The institute draws together Johns
“We are always working to
Hopkins faculty and staff, commu-
bridge the gap with the community
nity leaders, politicians, ministers
and the people we serve,” says Dr.
and community residents to discuss
Michael C. Gibbons, an associate
health issues and priorities.
director at the institute (above).
The institute is focused on a
“To understand why people might
range of issues, including youth
not behave the way the ‘experts’ say
violence, chronic diseases par-
they should you’ve got to understand
ticularly prevalent in urban areas
the local culture, norms, attitudes
and new technologies to provide
and beliefs. We’re doing a better job
better care in urban settings.
of that in East Baltimore.”
reaching the hispanic community The Esperanza Center (formerly the Hispanic
uninsured and uncomfortable seeking out
Apostolate) serves East Baltimore’s Hispanic
health care services. Such outreach will
population, offering English as a Second
expand to meet the needs of this
Language programs, employment place-
fast-growing population.
ment, health care and other services. In ProVision, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and The Johns Hopkins Hospital work with the Esperanza Center to develop creative, culturally appropriate and immigrant-friendly tactics to reach a population that typically is Committed Student Volunteers The Student Outreach Resource Center, known as SOURCE, provides community service and service-learning opportunities for hundreds of students at the schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health. SOURCE partners with more than 100 community-based organizations to provide a wide range of services to East Baltimore residents.
A worker from the Esperanza Center passes out Spanish-language fliers about diabetes in a heavily Hispanic area of Baltimore.
Linda Whitner is dedicated to making the Wald Community Nursing Center accessible to families in East Baltimore.
Life-saving screening “If I hadn’t had that screening, the cancer would have spread throughout my body,” says Maurice Johnson, who at age 48 was not at high risk for prostate cancer. But a blood test at a communityscreening event sponsored by the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, followed by further tests at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, confirmed that he had a malignancy. “Hopkins jumped right on it,” he says, “and six weeks later, I ended up having the surgery.” Through a public health grant, Johns Hopkins offers the prostate screening, diagnosis and treatment at no cost to low-income patients. Johns Hopkins also offers screenings in
A welcoming community clinic Linda Whitner grew up in public
able.” The clients appreciate the differ-
East Baltimore for colorectal cancer, and risk
housing in East Baltimore, and she
ence, she adds. “We’ve had them ask if we
assessments for cancer and contracting
knows firsthand about the health
can be their primary care providers. I had
HIV—a total of 700 to 800 screenings each year.
concerns of the people she serves at
to explain that if they were a car, we would
the Wald Community Nursing Center,
be the jump-start to get them going, and
which was founded in 1994 by the
we’ll even follow them to be sure they get
Johns Hopkins University School of
to the next stop.”
Nursing. Many parents bring their
Whitner has experienced some of the
children for physical exams, vacci-
struggles her clients face. In 1995, she
nations or tests for lead poisoning.
was homeless and had moved from a
As the clinical coordinator at the
shelter to the Transitional Housing
outreach center, Whitner helps set
Program, located in the same building as
a friendly tone for clients and
the Wald Clinic. Marion Isaacs D’Lugoff,
connects them with other health
the founding director of the Wald Clinic,
programs, such as children’s health
hired Whitner for a part-time clerical
insurance, for which they may qualify.
position, eventually promoting her to
“There’s an invisible welcome mat here,” Whitner says. “We don’t
community health outreach worker. “I enjoy what I do and I love working
start out asking a bunch of questions;
with people,” she says. “This is the only job
we introduce ourselves, communi-
I’ve ever had that I can honestly say I look
cate and make them feel comfort-
forward to coming to work every day.”
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They find a way to motivate you. Even when you say no, they’ll find some way to make you say yes.
They didn’t let me quit on myself.
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— Judeith James, college student and former participant in the Incentive Mentoring Program
Students Helping
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Former Dunbar High School student Judeith James (center) chats with volunteer mentors Sarah Hemminger (left) and Amber Ballard, both Johns Hopkins University graduate students.
uring her first year at Dunbar High School, Judeith James was failing classes. Things began to change when she met Sarah Hemminger, a Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine PhD student in biomedical engineering. Hemminger is the founder of the Incentive Mentoring Program, a 501(c)(3) organization that works with at-risk students. For four years, James and 14 other Dunbar students, all of whom were in danger of failing out of high school, stayed after school every Monday and Thursday afternoon for one-onone tutoring with Hemminger and her corps of volunteers, most of whom are students from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine or the Bloomberg School of Public Health. “At first I came for the pizza,” available only after students did their homework, James admits. But as she saw her grades improve, she found that “it was actually fun challenging myself. It made school exciting. If I scored 80 on a test one week, I wanted to score 85 the next week. Once I got to 85, I wanted to score 90.” In exchange for their mentoring, the Dunbar students were expected to volunteer time each month to help others. They helped out at the Maryland Food Bank and a shelter for domestic violence victims. Some became tutors themselves for younger students at Collington Square Elementary School. “It was funny to see little kids doing back to us what we had done to our tutors,” James says. The experience was positive on all counts. “It feels really good helping somebody,” she says. “We got to see how blessed we were.” By the end of her junior year, James had made the honor roll, and her mentors were talking to her about college, an idea James resisted. But her mentors kept working on her. “They find a way to motivate you. Even when you say no, they’ll find some way to make you say yes. They didn’t let me quit on myself.” In September 2007, James began her college career at Wesley College in Dover, Delaware, with plans to become a nurse. Hers is not an isolated case. Of the 15 ninth-graders who started the program, all 15 graduated, and all 15 enrolled in college. The Incentive Mentoring Program at Dunbar is just one of several ways that Johns Hopkins employees and students are involved in schools in East Baltimore. In all, these programs help more than 1,000 students each year.
Student to Student Tutoring Every week, a group of East
art. “I think it’s important that
Baltimore elementary and
students at Johns Hopkins
middle school students
graduate schools interact with the
gathers in a classroom at the
community,” says Allison Kaeding,
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg
a first-year medical student from
School of Public Health.
Fargo, North Dakota, who helps
Johns Hopkins students
run the program with the Rose
work one-on-one with the
Street Center.
pupils—on reading, math or
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Young men in this community need strong male role models.
— Hugh Howard, materials management specialist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Connecting Students to Career Options
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Hospital employee Hugh Howard talks about career possibilities with Dunbar High School senior Darian Ford at the Northeast Market on Monument Street.
aving grown up in East Baltimore and attended Dunbar High School, Hugh Howard, a materials management specialist at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, knows the issues facing young people in the community. For seven years, he has mentored students at Dunbar and other city high schools through the Bond to Bond program. “Young men in this community need strong male role models,” he says. “Also, I have a mentor myself who has helped me reach my goals.” Johns Hopkins employees introduce students to career opportunities and open doors to help them explore their options. Howard often leads groups of students through the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, where he works. “I bring them through the whole process of what happens when a woman gets pregnant,” he says. As he goes from labs to operating room to well babies and postpartum rooms, he encourages nurses, physicians and technicians to talk about their careers and how to pursue them. Once he knows a student’s personal interests and goals, he uses his network of contacts at the hospital to connect the student to someone following a similar career path. “Most of the kids have been focused,” he says. “They knew what they wanted, they pursued it and they were successful at it. My role was to help them connect the dots.”
Nurturing Budding Scientists As one of the premier research
various science fields. Every year,
institutions in the world, Johns
students from East Baltimore
Hopkins is working to cultivate
elementary schools take part in a
enthusiasm about the sciences
two-day science celebration at Johns
among youngsters in East Baltimore.
Hopkins. To date, all eight elementary
At the annual Johns Hopkins
schools in the local community have
Medicine science fair, students in
participated.
fourth and fifth grades display
“We’re definitely planning to
experiment results. A summer
keep building this initiative to get
science camp is being established
young people excited about science,”
to give two dozen students the
says Michael Jenkins, a Johns
opportunity to learn and explore
Hopkins administrator who coordinates community programs.
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There was a strong need for the program, but it had to be sold to the community. People in Baltimore
like to have some ownership.
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— Phil Harrison, community volunteer, Baltimore Child Development-Community Policing
Breaking
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Response team members (from left) Philip J. Leaf, Essex Weaver and Phil Harrison.
hen Essex Weaver gets a call on the special pager he carries 24 hours a day, it means that a child has been involved in a violent incident in Baltimore—usually as a victim. When one of those painful calls comes, Weaver, a retired Baltimore City police officer, assembles a trauma response team: a police officer, a mental health clinician and a trained member of the community. Often the team first meets the child and his or her family in the hospital. The first goal is to help the family deal with the trauma. But moving forward, these teams also want to tamp down the impulse to retaliate in kind and continue a cycle of violence. The trauma response teams are the core activity of Baltimore Child Development-Community Policing, a program operated by the Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence in the Bloomberg School of Public Health. The program is a partnership of the Baltimore Police Department, the Johns Hopkins University and Hospital, the Office of the Mayor of Baltimore, the Maryland Department of Social Services and the communities of Baltimore. Center Director Philip J. Leaf initiated the program in 1996. Unlike the New Haven, Connecticut, program on which it is modeled, CD-CP incorporated a major community component. “There was a strong need for the program, but it had to be sold to the community,” says Phil Harrison, a volunteer with the program since it began. “People in Baltimore like to have some ownership.” Community volunteers who serve on the trauma response teams, alongside volunteer police representatives and mental health clinicians, receive extensive training. “In the beginning, it took a lot of time,” says Harrison, who grew up in East Baltimore. “But I have a passion for young people, my neighborhood and my community.” “If there has been an impact,” says Weaver, “it has been on discouraging victims from becoming perpetrators. We try to convince them that taking the law into their own hands, or joining a gang, is not an answer.”
Looking Ahead The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
officials, government agencies,
in East Baltimore are at a transforma-
nonprofit institutions, businesses,
tional juncture. New facilities in the
area community groups and, most
pipeline will lead to improved patient
importantly, residents who share the
care and life-changing breakthroughs
vision of a brighter future for all those
in research. And the New East Side
who live and work in East Baltimore.
project will bring opportunities, homes and jobs to an area that has struggled economically. But Johns Hopkins also will strengthen and expand its work in the surrounding community. To accomplish
Above: Optimism through optometry. This mural on East Monument Street was created in 2005, but Woolf and Woolf Optometrists have been in that block for over 50 years, through
that, Johns Hopkins will continue to
many years of change and progress
work closely with its partners—elected
in East Baltimore.
The New East Side project is injecting new vitality into a large area bordering the Johns Hopkins campus (at bottom left, below). The Johns Hopkins Institutions are proud to be partners in this effort, which will create new jobs and homes, provide new services to residents and build a stronger community.
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A New East Side The New East Side project will transform and lift the area providing 8,000 new job opportunities for people with various levels of education, with a focus on jobs in health care and research. Map key: n 2,150 new and rehabilitated homes for mixed income levels, including seniors and working families n 2 million square feet of new research lab, commercial, office and retail space, generating
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he New East Side project, one of the nation’s largest revitalization initiatives, is already transforming the East Baltimore community. The project is bringing new homes, new jobs and new hope to an area that is rich in history but has declined economically over the years. This transformation has been made possible through the support of a remarkable group of partners determined to revitalize the East Baltimore community. The project is being overseen by East Baltimore Development Inc., a nonprofit organization governed by a board of elected officials, civic leaders, foundation representatives, business leaders and area residents, as well as representatives of the Johns Hopkins Institutions. The voices of all these representatives will continue to be crucial in shaping this project in the years to come.
significant economic activity in an area that has struggled
Among the project’s key partners are:
n Churches, schools and other
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community institutions n Open spaces to provide new recreational activities to residents n Proposed transit station, to link a newly vibrant community to the rest of the Baltimore region n Exisiting Johns Hopkins East Baltimore campus
City of Baltimore State of Maryland Federal government Johns Hopkins Institutions Annie E. Casey Foundation Enterprise Community Partners Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation Goldseker Foundation
Timetable The first phase of the East Baltimore project is well under way. The next phase will add more housing, a new community school and possibly a new commuter rail station. The project is on schedule to meet the following timetable for this phase: Acquisition of properties and relocation of residents —2007–2009 Demolition of selected properties —2009–2011 New community school —Phased-in launch in 2009 New school campus —Fall 2011 New housing development —2007–2012 Proposed MARC line commuter rail station —2010–2016
A Legacy of
Community Service
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hen Baltimore businessman Johns Hopkins died in 1873, he bequeathed more than $7 million—an enormous sum at that time—to create The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. He also left explicit instructions that the funds be used to serve the community and people without financial means in Baltimore and Maryland. Over many decades, the Johns Hopkins Institutions have expanded their reach, and new schools and institutions have been created. The Johns Hopkins Children’s Center, for example, is one of the premier children’s hospitals in the country, and it is committed to its mission to treat sick children from the community, regardless of their family’s finances. Through the Harriet Lane Clinic, the center has provided primary health care services to the underserved community since 1912, and now cares for approximately 7,500 children and adolescents from East Baltimore every year. This long-standing commitment to community service lives on across the East Baltimore campus.
Aerial photograph, ca. 1924, of East Baltimore and The Johns Hopkins Hospital. New construction for one of the first buildings for the School of Public Health on Wolfe Street is in the upper right quadrant of the photo. Left, a physician helps a child at the Harriet Lane Clinic, ca. 1970.
List of contacts and resources
Johns Hopkins Institutions–East Baltimore Community Affairs Deidra Bishop 901 S. Bond Street, Suite 540 Baltimore, MD 21231 443-287-9900 http://web.jhu.edu/gcpa Johns Hopkins Health System Community Services Michael Jenkins 550 North Broadway, Suite 510 Baltimore, MD 21205 410-614-2430 www.hopkinsmedicine.org/communityservices Johns Hopkins Medicine Marketing and Communications 901 S. Bond Street, Suite 550 Baltimore, MD 21231 410-955-6680 or 410-955-6681 www.hopkinsmedicine.org Johns Hopkins School of Nursing Office of Marketing and Communications 525 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21205 410-614-4695 www.son.jhmi.edu Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Office of Communications & Public Affairs 615 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21205 410-955-7619 www.jhsph.edu
Contact information for organizations included in this brochure is below. For a more complete listing of programmatic activities, the Johns Hopkins Community Services Directory is available online at www .hopkinsmedicine.org/communityservices. Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute 2013 E. Monument Street Baltimore, MD 21205 410-502-6155 www.jhsph.edu/urbanhealth Isaiah Wellness Center and Wald Community Nursing Clinic Community Nursing Outreach Program, School of Nursing Lori Edwards, Director ledwards@son.jhmi.edu 410-614-2418
Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition Inc. (HEBCAC) Administrative Offices 1212 N. Wolfe Street Baltimore, MD 21213 443-524-2800 www.hebcac.org Bond to Bond Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Yariela Kerr-Donovan, Project Director ykerrdo1@jhmi.edu 410-955-1488 Incentive Mentoring Program Sarah Hemminger sarah.hemminger@gmail.com 410-493-2363
Student Outreach Resource Center (SOURCE) Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Public Health Mindi Levin, Director mlevin@jhsph.edu 410-955-3880 www.jhsph.edu/source
Colorectal and Prostate Cancer Screening Programs Charlene Ndi, Program Manager The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins endi1@jhmi.edu 410-955-1348
East Baltimore Development Inc. (EBDI) 1731 East Chase Street Baltimore, MD 21213 410-234-0660 www.ebdi.org
Principal photography: Mike Ciesielski, Will Kirk
Design: Johns Hopkins University; Government, Community and Public Affairs; Office of Design and Publications
Cover: Graphic representation of the new East Baltimore neighborhood
Published by The Johns Hopkins University Office of Government, Community and Public Affairs