Community Partnerships for Community Health

Healthcare for the Homeless (HCH)
www.hchmd.org
Phone: 410-837-5533
421 Fallsway
Baltimore, MD 21202
Betty Kavanagh, LCSW-C, Behavioral Health Officer
Diana Keener, L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Student Clinic:  Mondays and Wednesdays  8:00 am – 10:00 am

Healthcare for the Homeless provides health-related services, education and advocacy to reduce the incidence and burdens of homelessness in Maryland.  A continuum of addiction services is provided ranging from street reach/outreach to auricular detox/wellness groups, outpatient treatment, and referral and placement in residential treatment programs.  The program is based on a philosophical continuum which integrates a harm reduction model with the abstinence based chronic disease model of addiction and behavioral health treatment.

Howard Community College - Wellness Center (HCC)
www.howardcc.edu
Phone: 410-772-4640
10901 Little Patuxent Parkway
Columbia, Maryland 21044  
Tara Rupp, Wellness Coordinator
Sherrie Black, L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Student Clinic:  Tuesdays and Thursdays  8:30 am – 10:30 am

The Wellness Center empowers students to make informed decisions about their health, ultimately enhancing their wellbeing and quality of life.  It offers a variety services including acupuncture, massage, and zero balancing.  The program also provides educational materials, hosts educational workshops, plans awareness activities, and provides students with referrals as necessary.  Auricular acupuncture – The Detox/Wellness Protocol - is provided to support the campus community with enhanced health through stress reduction, recovery from addictions, and reinforcing behavioral health and wellness.

Penn North Neighborhood Center (PN)
www.tai.edu/MCHI.aspx
Phone: 410-728-2080
2410 Pennsylvania Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21217
Blaize Connelly-Duggan, Executive Director
Vernard Nelson, Team Leader
Rhonda Armero, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Leslie Lloyd, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Arthur Lazorowitz, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Student Clinic:  Monday through Friday, 9:15 am – 11:15 am

Founded by the Tai Sophia Institute, Maryland CHI is committed to redefining health through services that incorporate the value of on-demand access with comprehensive and supplementary services.  The Penn North Neighborhood Center utilizes community/peer support, acupuncture, therapeutic movement modalities, nutrition and community based referrals and resources as effective tools to deal with the effects of substance abuse while supporting behavioral health and wellness.  Through complimentary medicine, practitioners bring a wealth of knowledge concerning health and well-being to clients who are, primarily, individuals living with an array of physical, emotional and behavioral health challenges.

Recovery in Community (RIC)
www.recoveryincommunity.org
Phone: 410-362-1400
31 North Fulton Avenue
Baltimore, MD 21223  
Lena Franklin, Executive Director
Sheri DePetro, M.Ac.,  L.Ac., LCSW-C, Acupuncture Supervisor
Student Clinic:  Wednesday, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Recovery in Community (RIC) is a community-based program with the goal of reducing substance abuse and related criminal activity in three communities of Southwest Baltimore.  This area was the setting for the book and TV miniseries, "The Corner."  RIC clients live in group houses and attend the program five days a week.  Tai Sophia provides acupuncture and wellness services for the program.  Other services include anger management, HIV support and education, and substance abuse education.

The Serenity Center (TSC)
www.serenitycenter.homestead.com
Phone: 410-884-6088
9650 Basket Ring Road
Columbia, MD  21045-3421
Executive Director:  Claudia Friend
Arthur Lazorowitz, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Student Clinic:  Monday and Thursday, 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. (Auricular Treatments)
Saturdays, 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. (Auricular Treatments)

In 1993, The Serenity Center was established by people in recovery as a non-profit organization. The Center provides a safe and loving environment for those in recovery. It supports and encourages the discovery of physical, emotional, and spiritual growth through Twelve Step fellowships. Capable of accommodating four meetings simultaneously, the Center includes a large kitchen and space for informal gatherings and hosts meetings in both English and Spanish. The Center is also available for additional recovery meetings, and for special events in Howard County that are aligned with the process of recovery as it relates to the 12 Steps. Tai Sophia Institute student practitioners provide  acupuncture three days a week under faculty supervision.

Laurel Wellness (LW)
www.tai.edu
Phone: 410-888-9048
7750 Montpelier Road
Laurel, MD  20723
Rotating Voluntary Licensed Supervisors
Student Clinic:  Tuesday and Thursday, 12:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.

This program presently serves the staff, students and faculty of the Tai Sophia Community by providing a wellness program that embodies the very philosophy that is the hallmark of the Institute's work in the community.  Twice a week, this treatment space allows for many to come together to receive auricular acupuncture as a respite for the stressors of everyday life.  Wellness services are offered in a supportive group environment utilizing volunteer licensed faculty supervisors.

Community Partnership Sites that utilize Community Style Acupuncture

Living Well With Cancer (LWWC)
www.tai.edu
Phone: 410-888-9048
7750 Montpelier Road
Laurel, MD  20723
Hunter Thompson, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Barbara Schuyler, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
Student Clinic:  Monday and Friday, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
(Full Body/Community Acupuncture)

This program, funded by a grant from Bita's Run, serves members of Howard, Montgomery, and Baltimore Counties, as well as Baltimore City.  The program targets patients who are living with an active diagnosis of cancer.  Patients are treated within a community acupuncture format which also allows them to build a support network that they can rely on.  All patients receive auricular and full body acupuncture to help ward off the symptoms associated with cancer treatment and to improve an overall sense of well-being. Senior students  with  65 or more treatments are paired with students doing NADA.

Grassroots Crisis Center
Hunter Thompson, M.Ac., L.Ac., Lead Acupuncture Supervisor (Thursday Clinic)
Bernadette Hamilton, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
(Full Body/Community Acupuncture)
Student Clinic:  Thursday, 5:45 p.m. – 7:45 p.m.

The Grassroots Crisis Center is a 24-hour resource to individuals and families in need.  The center serves men, women and children who find themselves without a place to sleep. Inhabitants are also co-workers, schoolmates, friends and even family who may be contemplating suicide. These are members of the community who are experiencing a crisis and are seeking help, advice, and sometimes just a roof over their heads.   Grassroots Crisis Center is an emergency and transitional shelter, a 24-hour phone and walk-in crisis center and an educational resource serving Howard County and neighboring communities.

The Serenity Center
Hunter Thompson, M.Ac., L.Ac., Lead Acupuncture Supervisor (Tuesday Clinic)
Bernadette Hamilton, M.Ac., L.Ac., Acupuncture Supervisor
(Full Body/Community Acupuncture)
Student Clinic:  Tuesdays, 5:45 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.

After receiving funding from the Horizon Foundation to support wellness services, in the Fall of 2010, the Serenity Center received additional funding to expand acupuncture/wellness offerings.  In this program, community acupuncture provides support to clients of the Serenity Center by providing more attention to ailments/disharmonies that inhibit wellness.

Howard County Health Department
Craig Kerr, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Sharon Jennings-Rojas, M.Ac., L.Ac.
Monday-Friday, 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Tuesdays, 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Wednesdays, 5:30p.m. - 7:00 p.m.

This program focuses on providing wellness services to Howard County Health Department's clients that participate in array of treatment programs.  Wellness services serve as an adjunct to traditional behavioral health treatment and is folded into the treatment design.   Tai Sophia clinical faculty offer auricular and full body treatments to citizens of Howard County who are working toward healthier self care attitudes that inevitably affect all areas of their lives.  Wellness offerings include faculty participation  in ongoing case management to ensure a full spectrum of  care leading to patient success.