MGH Institute Students to Help Residents During Community Day

More than 400 first-year students in nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, and speech-language pathology will work with more than 35 non-profit groups in and around Boston during the MGH Institute of Health Professions 3rd annual Community Day (#mghihpcd14) on Friday, September 19.

Part of the Charlestown Navy Yard health sciences graduate school’s community-service initiative, Community Day will also include faculty and staff volunteers. Teams of five to eight students will work in Charlestown and other neighborhoods and cities including the North End, the West End, Roxbury, the South End, Jamaica Plain, the Fenway, Beacon Hill, Bay Village, and Cambridge.

Activities include health walks with the elderly, health promotion strategies, neighborhood park cleanups, preparing meals, parent education about early literacy, exercises/stretching with public school students, volleyball, and several children’s events.

Charlestown locations in which MGH Institute students are scheduled to participate include:

AccessSport America (at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital)
AccessSport America (at Charlestown High School)
Boston National Historic Park – Charlestown Navy Yard
Bunker Hill Monument
Captain’s Quarters
Charlestown Boys & Girls Club
Charlestown Nursery School Collaborative
Charlestown Public Library
Children’s Quarters
Courageous Sailing
Doherty Park
Edwards Middle School
Harvard Mall Park
Kennedy Center
Mishawum Park
Newtowne Housing Development – Ferrin Street
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
Zelma Lacey House