Community Engagement Hub

Advancing collaborative and socially engaged interprofessional partnership with the community, providing a centralized hub for students and faculty to coordinate opportunities for community service.

Community Partners
Volunteer Opportunities

Informed Education Drives the Continuum of Engagement

Service

Providing service to an individual or community.

Advocacy

Advocating for an individual or community.

Engagement

Working in partnership with an individual or community.

Student Group & Faculty Volunteerism

What is community engagement?

Community engagement describes collaboration between institutions of higher education and their larger communities (local, regional/state, national, global) for the mutually beneficial exchange of knowledge and resources in a context of partnership and reciprocity.

What is service learning?

The service-learning requirement for medical students involves the following components:

  1. Participate in service activities that respond to community-identified concerns;
  2. Preparation; and
  3. Reflection on the relationships between activity participation, medical school curriculum, and the roles of citizens and medical professionals.
What are specific WashU medical student requirements?

Required to volunteer at three separate sites during Phase I of their curriculum, and are involved in larger, coordinated efforts during specific clerkships.

Additional WashU Community Engagement Resources

Community Partners

See our community partners below alphabetically, by category, or use the search bar to look for key words. If you have questions please email us; organizations interested in joining us, please complete our Partner Interest Form.

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Navigate STL Schools

  • Mailing Address: 5501 Delmar Blvd
    Suite 200A
    St. Louis, MO 63112
  • Phone: (314) 408-2468

Ollie Hinkle Heart Foundation

  • Mailing Address: 144 W. Lockwood Ave
    Suite 201
    Webster Groves, MO 63119

Operation Food Search

  • Mailing Address: 1644 Lotsie Blvd
    St. Louis, MO 63132
  • Phone: (314) 726-5355

Ready Readers 

  • Mailing Address: 10403 Baur Blvd
    Suite H
    St. Louis, MO 63132
  • Phone: (314) 564-8070

Ronald McDonald House Charities

  • Mailing Address: 4321 Chouteau Avenue
    Saint Louis, MO 63110
  • Phone: 314.773.1100

Rural Parish Clinic

  • Mailing Address: 20 Archbishop May Drive
    St. Louis, MO 63119
  • Phone: 888-870-9610

Saturday Scholars

Virtual Organization. See website for information.

Seed STL (FKA Gateway Greening)

  • Mailing Address: 2211 Washington Ave
    St. Louis, MO 63103
  • Phone: 314-588-9600

St. Louis Challenger Baseball

  • Mailing Address: 402 N. Geyer Road
    St. Louis, MO 63122
  • Phone: (314) 822-2518

St. Louis Children’s Hospital

  • Mailing Address: 1 Children’s Place
    St. Louis, MO 63110
  • Phone: (314) 454-6000

St. Louis Diaper Bank

St. Louis Juvenile Detention Center

  • Mailing Address: 3847 Enright Ave.
    St. Louis, MO 63108
  • Phone: (314) 615-2996

St. Patrick Center

St. Vincent DePaul Parish St. Louis

  • Mailing Address: 1408 S. 10th Street
    St. Louis, MO 63104
  • Phone: 314-231-9328

STL Neighborhood Foresters

  • Mailing Address: PO BOX 775293
    St. Louis, MO 63177
  • Phone: 636-248-5844

Street Med STL

The BRIC

  • Mailing Address: 5874 Delmar Blvd
    St. Louis, MO 63112
  • Phone: 314-624-0398