Hopkins Community Connection
200 North Wolfe St
Baltimore, MD 21287
Phone: 410-502-8450
Contact: Kristin Topel, Program Manager
Email: ktopel1@jh.edu
Function of Organization/Site
Hopkins Community Connection works to screen patients for essential resource needs during their routine medical appointments and uses student volunteers and Community Health Workers to navigate them to community resources and in doing so they become trained as future leaders poised to enhance the effectiveness of the health system by routinely addressing these needs as a standard part of quality care.
Involvement Opportunities
Screen patients and their families for essential resource needs and navigate to community resources
Marketing
Data collection and analysis
Explore CBO partnerships
Department of GYN Oncology for a funded project
Volunteers working directly with patients are required to complete a 16-hours weekend training session.