East Baltimore Speaks: Needs Assessment
This online database compiles findings of needs studies. Search the database by location of keyword. You can support our efforts by submitting your own needs assessment.
http://webapps.jhu.edu/needs/

MapFinder: The Shifting Demographics of Baltimore
http://webapps.jhu.edu/mapfinder/

Johns Hopkins Establishes Urban Health Institute to Improve Health of East Baltimore
"We have before us a challenging mission. This is an unprecedented undertaking for Johns Hopkins, but working together in a true partnership with a shared vision, we can begin making East Baltimore a healthier, happier place to live." President William R. Brody, M.D., Ph.D. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2000/JULY/000706.HTM

• Hopkins Urban Health Institute Awards First Community Grants
  The Amazing Grandmothers may sound like a senior citizens aerobics team, but this group of women from the Amazing Grace Lutheran Church in East Baltimore has much more serious undertakings in mind. They are raising their grandchildren. The parents of these kids are either absent from home or incapacitated by substance abuse. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2001/SEPTEMBER/010927.htm
• School of Nursing Programs Receive Urban Health Institute Grants
  Two School of Nursing projects designed to fight the epidemic substance-abuse problem in East Baltimore recently received grants from the Johns Hopkins Urban Health Institute. http://www.son.jhmi.edu/newsandmedia/uhigrants.htm

Selected East Baltimore Mortality Statistics
1994 http://www.med.jhu.edu/mchsc/bcd94/eastbalt.htm
1995 http://www.med.jhu.edu/mchsc/bcd95/eastbalt.htm

(HEBCAC) Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition
Historic East Baltimore Community Action Coalition Inc. is a non-profit partnership based in the community, established to enhance the quality of life for all who live, work, and visit historic East Baltimore.

HEBCAC facilitates cooperation and communication, brokers services, and advocates for positive change to achieve sustained community revitalization. http://www.hebcac.org/index.html

East Baltimore Developments Plan
…80 beleaguered acres around Johns Hopkins Hospital in East Baltimore to be anchored by a state-of-the-art biotechnology research park.

Today, the neighborhoods of East Baltimore are some of the most blighted in Baltimore with a 56% vacancy rate in some sections. Built on a foundation of inclusion, the $200 million East Baltimore Developments Plan is designed to radically improve the community surrounding Johns Hopkins, improve public safety, create better recreation and community services, and more open space. http://www.baltimorecity.gov/news/biotech/ebbiotech.html

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