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Baltimore City Police Department, Eastern District

The Baltimore City Police Department Eastern District is the smallest of the nine districts. The district’s officers are committed to establishing and maintaining strong relationships with district resi­dents, as well as with religious groups, various agencies, and businesses. Financial contributions have been used to support police recreational leagues.

Contact: Major Lloyd Wells
Email: easterndistrict@baltimorepolice.org
Phone: (410) 396-2433
Sector: Government Based

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Baltimore City Police Department, Northern District

The Northern District boasts 52 recognized neighborhoods with over 70 active community associations. The district is home to higher learning institutions includ­ing Johns Hopkins University, Loyola and the College of Notre Dame. Financial contributions have been used to support the district’s Holiday program. Together with the Northern District, JHU and community groups establish and support Neighborhood Citizens on Patrol campaigns and implement the Hopkins Crime Watch program.

Contact: Maj Richard Gibson
Email: northerndistrict@baltimorepolice.org
Phone: (410) 396-2455
Sector: Government Based

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Baltimore Collegetown Shuttle

The free Collegetown Shuttle transports students, staff, and faculty at six participating colleges to other campuses and key destinations throughout the region.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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By Peaceful Means

By Peaceful Means has a mission to interrupt physical and structural violence by empowering youth through peace education, advocacy, and employment, Annually a Peace Camp, free to ages 6-18, is provided to over 100 youth in Baltimore City.

Contact: By Peaceful Means
Email: info@bypeacefulmeans.org
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Campus Safety and Security

Campus Safety and Security provides law enforcement services to the university around the clock.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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Charm City Circulator

A fleet of 30 free shuttles that travel four routes in Baltimore City.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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Child Development-Community Policing Program (CDCP)

The Child Development-Community Policing Program (CDCP) works to break the cycle of violence by intervening shortly after a child has witnessed or been affected by a violent or traumatic event. A police officer who has received train­ing in child development, along with a mental health clinician, and a member of the community will meet with the child and his/her caregivers to assess the child’s needs and to determine whether follow-up treatment is needed.

Contact: JHU SOPH Center for Prevention of Youth Violence
Email: na
Phone: 410-955-3962
Sector: Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Based

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Disaster Preparedness for Spiritual Leaders

The Disaster Preparedness for Spiritual Leaders online training is designed to educate faith communities in partnership with the JHSPH in five faith communities.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
Sector: Johns Hopkins East Baltimore/Community Based

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East Baltimore Corporate Security, Parking, and Transportation

The Department of Corporate Security, Parking, and Transportation helps patients, visitors, students and employees get to and around the Johns Hopkins Medicine campuses.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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FORCE

Upsetting Rape Culture is a creative activist collaboration to upset the culture of rape and promote a culture of consent. FORCE designs communications campaigns to generate media attention and get millions of people talking. Nationally known for producing large-scale public art projects, FORCE believes that a more difficult and honest conversation needs to happen in America to face the realities of sexual violence, and envision a world where sex is empowering and pleasurable rather than coercive and violent.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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FreeStateJustice

FreeState Legal is a legal advocacy organization that seeks to improve the lives of low-income lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (“LGBT”) Marylanders. Despite recent, incremental judicial victories for the national LGBT community, the low-income LGBT population continues to struggle with legal challenges such harassment, complex family law issues, and anti-LGBT discrimination in employment, housing, foster care, healthcare and public accommodations. In addition to needing attorneys with specific knowledge of how the law affects LGBT citizens, LGBT clients need attorneys who will treat them with respect and understanding. FreeState’s mission is to combine direct legal services with education and outreach to ensure that the low-income LGBT community Maryland receives fair treatment in the law and society.

Contact: Jennifer Kent
Email: jkent@freestate-justice.org
Phone: (410) 625-5428
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Homewood campus map and directions

How to get to and get around the Homewood campus.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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Homewood Transportation Services

Provides several services to faculty, staff and students, including the Blue Jay Shuttle, as well as other shuttles serving Homewood, Peabody, Keswick, Mt. Washington, Carey Business School, and Johns Hopkins at Eastern.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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Johns Hopkins and its neighbors launch public safety effort

The latest initiative in Johns Hopkins' ongoing $10 million commitment to neighborhoods surrounding the university's Homewood campus is now arriving: funding to support a collaborative effort for added police manpower and TV-camera monitoring along North Charles Street between North Avenue and 28th Street.

Contact: Office of Communications
Email: jhucommunications@jhu.edu
Phone: 443-997-0170
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Johns Hopkins CARES Mobile Safety Center

The CARES Safety Center started in July, 2004 and regularly visits the East Baltimore Medical Center (EBMC). EBMC is located at 1000 East Eager Street in Baltimore. The CARES Safety Center is also available to visit local elementary schools, places of worship, shopping centers, health fairs, and community events. The CARES Safety Center staff lead visitors through many fun exhibits about home and traffic safety, answer questions, and connect visitors to community resources.

Contact: Nikkia Wilkens, Health Educator
Email: cares@jhsph.edu
Phone: (410) 614-9191
Sector: Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Based

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Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence

The Center was created with a five-year grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Provention (CDC) in 2000 as an Academic Research Center of Excellence (ACE). the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence is one of 10 Academic Centers of Excellence. The Center was refunded in 2011 as well as six other centers of ACE. The mission of the Center is to prevent youth violence and to promote positive youth development in Baltimore City by creating academic-community collaborations that extend, evaluate and improve efforts to: 1) monitor and detect fatal and non-fatal youth violence; 2) conduct research aimed at identifying malleable factors related to youth violence and research and research on interventions that reduce youth violence and associated morbidity and mortality; and 3) create policies and practices that prevent youth violence.

Contact: Philip Leaf, Director
Email: pleaf@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 955-3962
Sector: School Based

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Johns Hopkins Medicine Patient and Visitor Shuttles

Courtesy shuttles are provided free of charge for patients and visitors traveling around campus.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
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Juvenile Justice Jeopardy

The goal of Juvenile Justice Jeopardy is to engage youth in important conversations about the juvenile justice system and the potential consequences of their actions. The game offers a structured framework for correcting misconceptions and inviting youth to participate in meaningful dialogue about their views and experiences of the juvenile justice system.

Contact: Jerrell Bratcher
Email: bratcher@jhu.edu
Phone:
Sector: Homewood

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Operation PULSE (People United to Live in a Safe Environment)

Operation P.U.L.S.E. (People United to Live in a Safe Environment) was developed by C.U.R.E. (Clergy United for Renewal in East Baltimore) through a partnership with John Hopkins Medical Institutions in 1992. This crime prevention ministry has trained over one thousand volunteers from C.U.R.E. churches, community residents, and other individuals that elect to earn community service hours to watch, patrol and evangelize via a non-traditional citizen on patrol program. Operation P.U.L.S.E. members volunteer to patrol in East Baltimore neighborhoods. Operation P.U.L.S.E. conducts a variety of crime prevention programs for churches, senior groups, schools, outdoor community displays, and businesses. Recently, Johns Hopkins East Baltimore Community Affairs assisted Operation P.U.L.S.E. with its National Night Out initiative.

Contact: Samuel T. Redd
Email: operationpulse@verizon.net
Phone: (410) 889-4496
Sector: Community Based

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Restorative Response Baltimore

Restorative Response Baltimore (formerly Community Conferencing Center) is a conflict transformation and community building organization that provides ways for people to collectively and effectively prevent and resolve conflicts and crime.

Contact: Matthew Zernhelt, Executive Director
Email: info@communityconferencing.org
Phone: (410) 889-7400
Sector: Johns Hopkins Based

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Safe Babies Program

This program provides a smoke detector, baby bath thermometer, outlet covers, other materials and educational information to each new mother who deliv­ers her baby at Johns Hopkins Bayview upon their discharge from the Medical Center. This program’s goal is to help new parents learn to prevent burn injuries for their new baby. Current funding comes from the Johns Hopkins Burn Center Community Fund, Metropolitan Firefighters Burn Center Fund and the Kiwanis of East Baltimore.

Contact: Thomas Mclhinney, Community Program Manager
Email: tmclhin1@jhmi.edu
Phone: (410) 550-8297
Sector: Johns Hopkins Bayview Based

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Tahirih Justice Center

The Tahirih Justice Center is a national organization whose mission is to end violence against women and girls. They provide a wide range of free direct legal services, policy advocacy, training and education to protect immigrant women and girls fleeing gender-based violence.

Contact: JHU Center for Social Concern
Email: volunteer@jhu.edu
Phone: (410) 516-4777
Sector: Community Based

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TurnAround, Inc.

TurnAround, Inc. is the sexual assault crisis center for Baltimore City and County that provides a range of services to adults and children affected by intimate partner and sexual violence. The mission is to build a community free of violence by working with adults and children affected by intimate partner and sexual violence to address their needs and prevent further violence through advocacy and education.

Contact: Gail Reid, Victim Advocacy
Email: greid@turnaroundinc.org
Phone: (410) 837-7000
Sector: Community

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