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The School of Nursing collaborates with other organizations, programs, schools, and departments on a local and national level.

Practice

•  Philadelphia Corporation for Aging (PCA) - PCA is the region’s largest non-profit organization serving the needs of older adults since 1973 through advocacy, fund administration, planning, program development, and service coordination.  Serving as Philadelphia County’s Area Agency on Aging (AAA), PCA is dedicated to improving the quality of life for older Philadelphians and people with disabilities.  PCA provides comprehensive assessments, and home and community long term care services to the elderly and disabled.  PCA contracts with over 100 community organizations and service providers to deliver a variety of social support and health care services to 70,000 consumers a year through advocacy, care at home services, employment assistance, health promotion, home repair, information and referral, and other programs and services. 
  
   
• The Center for Advocacy for the Rights and Interests of the Elderly (CARIE) – Founded in 1977, CARIE is a Philadelphia-based, non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for vulnerable older adults.  CARIE is a leader in providing direct assistance to the elderly, their families, and professionals in the aging field through a service mediation approach.  In addition to its impact on direct service activity, CARIE is committed to improving the service system, raising public awareness, and promoting advocacy.  Some of the programs offered through CARIE include the Elderly Victims Emergency Security Fund, the Long Term Care Ombudsman Program, abuse prevention training programs, and Health Care Fraud Education Project.
   
• Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia (VNAGP)

 
Education

• Sayre Middle School
   

• Sayre Beacon Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Program – This initiative is a school-based school and community health promotion and disease prevention center at Sayre-Beacon School that utilizes Penn’s many health resources as well as those of other local health resources to improve the health of children and adults in the Sayre community.  Aspects of this program address common health concerns in the West Philadelphia community, of both children and adults, including hypertension, obesity, diabetes, and heart disease.  The Nursing School, working in collaboration with other schools of the University, provide services through a service learning model an volunteerism.
   
• Shaw Middle School
   
• Health Improvement Curriculum – Health education through health improvement activities, such as peer education and community outreach activities, are co-designed and taught by Shaw teachers and Penn Nursing and Arts and Sciences students.

• West Philadelphia Collaborative Program for Children’s Health – Keeping Teens Healthy – This program, co-sponsored by the Medical and Nursing Schools, provides health counseling, education, and referral for students and their families.
   
• Turner Middle School

7^th Grade Activities

• Community Health Watch – Through a collaborative effort with the School of Dentistry, the Nursing School hosts a Community Health Watch Program.  In this program the students identify and research a health related topic and present this information to an audience of families, siblings, and community members.  Topics include injury prevention, substance abuse, and AIDS awareness.
   

• Health Screening –   Appropriate health related screenings are periodically provided by the Schools of Nursing, Medicine, Dentistry and other health care providers.

• Community Cancer Prevention and Health Promotion Program – The Schools of Nursing and Social Work, through a grant from the National Cancer Institute, work with students and teachers to create and implement school and community cancer prevention and health promotion programs.

                  8^th Grade Activities

• Conflict Resolution Training – Students from the School of Nursing work with two classes of 8^th graders to train students in conflict resolution skill.

•  Afterschool Peer Mediation Program – Nursing and Sociology students work with selected students to create an afterschool peer mediation program.

Other

• Mayor’s Office of Health and Fitness

University of Pennsylvania nursing students, working with the Mayor’s Office  of Health and Fitness, provide cholesterol  and glucose screening along with baseline assessments in the areas of flexibility, endurance, strength and cardio fitness for the residents of West Philadelphia and surrounding communities.  These assessments are repeated periodically to track improvements in the areas of weight loss, blood pressures, BMI, cholesterol and glucose.

• Institute for the Study of Civic Values

The City of Philadelphia, through the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, initiated a  Block Club Social Contract in 1994 aimed at helping community groups to define basic goals in improving the appearance, safety, education, and economic opportunity throughout West Philadelphia and surrounding communities.  These groups include block captains, members of block associations, and participants in agencies and organizations that support them.  The University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing frequently collaborates with these groups and organization in planning community-based health and education projects and programs.

• Philadelphia County Medical Society

The School of Nursing collaborates with the Philadelphia County Medical Society to identify and plan community projects based on neighborhood needs and community requests, working closely with established community agencies and groups.

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