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OUTREACH

Practical learning is a key aspect of the Lewis College degree programs.  Students reinforce their classroom lessons via hands-on learning experiences called clinicals, many of which allow students to provide health care to some of Atlanta's most under-served communities.

DID YOU KNOW?

Our students provide more than 35,000 hours of unpaid service annually to the Atlanta community and beyond.

Community Service

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Nursing

Nursing faculty and students, through the Children's Restoration Network, have given more than 3,000 homeless children back-to-school physicals over 23 years. They have also provided physicals for DeKalb County’s Head Start program.

Undergraduate nursing students created a portable low-cost health record system, including conditions and treatment for indigent patients visiting Saint Joseph's Mercy Care clinic.

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Nutrition

Students teach nutrition to people of all ages through partnerships with the Atlanta Children's Shelter and two metro Atlanta NORCs Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities.  Graduate students work with community leaders to assess the community's needs in developing the workshops.

Nutrition students developed and operate in partnership with Civic Engagement, the Panther's Pantry, a campus-based food bank that serves food-insecure Georgia State students.

2019 Georgia State University Perimeter College Dental Hygiene grads and Atlanta campus Physical Therapy students proving services to Migrant workers and their families.

Physical Therapy

Physical therapy students have provided assessments and treatment to migrant farm workers and their families in South Georgia for more than 18 years via an Emory University-led consortium.

The department also partners with Communidad Connect, a non-profit, to provide physical therapy for Nicaragua coffee farm workers and their families, and residents of rural Dominican Republic.

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Respiratory Therapy (RT)

Students offer smoking-cessation workshops and pulmonary function screenings to a variety of community members from homeless men to state legislators and their staff. While on service-learning study abroad to the Dominican Republic, RT students taught school children about the dangers of smoking.

Using American Cancer Society curricula, RT students lead the Georgia State Great American Smokeout Day.

Project Healthy Grandparents

Started by Dr. Susan Kelley, the Project Healthy Grandparents (PHG) service model includes monthly visits from nurses and social workers who provide physical, emotional and economic support to grandparents.  In addition, grandparents attend support groups and parenting classes where they have the chance to talk with others experiencing similar challenges.  PHG strives to enhance the quality of life for these families by reducing stress on grandparents and improving their parenting abilities to advance outcomes for grandchildren.  This research is shared nationally and internationally and the program has been replicated in three University System of Georgia universities and universities in Maryland and North Carolina.

Since 1995, PHG has affected the lives of more than 3,000 children and grandparents in DeKalb and Fulton counties.

International Initiatives

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Location

Urban Life Building
404-413-1100
[email protected]

Mailing Address

Byrdine F. Lewis College of Nursing and Health Professions
P.O. Box 3995
Atlanta, GA 30302-3995

Academic Assistance

404-413-1000
[email protected]

Technology Assistance

404-413-4357
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