Each year Professor Narketta Sparkman-Key leads students on a service-learning trip to Montego Bay Jamaica to spend time with pregnant teenagers at the Women’s Centre of Jamaica Foundation, an outreach program for adolescent mothers. The students, many whom have never been on an airplane, learn quickly about the challenges of travel and cultural differences. “We’re teaching them to actually work with other cultures. Learn that culture, understand that culture and how that culture may be different from yours. But still be able to service that culture,” Says Dr. Key. And the experience for the students is life transforming.
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About Dr. Key
Dr. Narketta Sparkman-Key is a Tedx speaker, published researcher, adolescent suicide expert, award winning professor of human services, award winning international speaker, global health and human services expert, human services board certified practitioner, and diversity and inclusion expert. Dr. Key is a visionary in her field and believes her purpose is to support effective teaching, advance culturally competent service delivery and advocate for the empowerment of vulnerable populations
