RURAL SCHOLARS
The Rural Scholars is a select group of students from the University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Nursing and Medicine. Sponsored by the Health Council and housed by the Martha's Vineyard Hospital, the students spend time on the Vineyard researching and analyzing health related topics of critical importance to our island. Their data-supported reports assist the Council in proceeding with its mission.
2021
Identifying Education and Training Needs Among the Youth Population
"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."
~ Malcom X
"All sorrows are less with bread."
~ Miguel de Cervantes
2019
Inclusive Recreation and Leisure
"We rise by lifting others."
~ Robert Ingersoll
"You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do with them."
~ Atul Gawande
“Empower woman, empower the human community. The base on which the world stands is a woman."
~ author unknown
2016
Addiction and the Martha's Vineyard Community: Assessment of Substance Use Disorder and Addiction Services in a Rural at-risk Population
"The idea that addicts must 'hit bottom' is an archaic and potentially deadly myth."
~ David Sheff, author of Clean
The average age of a homeless person in Massachusetts is 8 years old.
If you suspect a senior is being abused, call your local Council on Aging or 911.
"Youth has no age."
~ Pablo Picasso
"One can not think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
~ Virginia Woolf
"Approximately 15% of adults over 60 suffer from mental illness. This figure will double in the next 30 years."
~ World Health Organization
Young people who drink before age 15 are four times as likely to have alcohol dependence as those who
start drinking at age 21 .
