Welcome to Camp Sunshine, a one week annual summer camp in August exclusively for children who have had cancer. A wonderful chance to work with children and meet new people from the community, Camp Sunshine is the highlight of many Hopkins students' education. Contact Carol Sharp at the American Cancer Society in February for an application. Child Life Department - Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Child Life helps children cope with their hospitalization through arts, crafts, and other activities in playrooms or at the bedside. Volunteers assist Child Life Specialists in providing recreational and educational services to children and parents in the hospital.
Students volunteer for two hour shifts in the afternoons or evenings.
The Family Resource Library contains information about children's health and diseases through books and videos, recreational reading materials and a pleasant relaxing atmosphere for patients and their families. Volunteers are needed to help parents and children use the library and to help make it an enjoyable, comfortable place for all. A broad with R esources and E quipment is organizing the daily recovery of usable medical supplies which would be otherwise discarded. These supplies, which have never been used on a patient, are collected and then distributed to developing coutries where they are in very short supply. There are opportunities for students to work with Riker McKenzie in writing grants, working with inner-city youth, curriculum development for the Youthbuild program, and training neighborhood health workers.