KU students donate prom dresses

University of Kansas School of Nursing students organized a prom dress donation program for Kansas City high school students for the second year in a row, as part of the school’s Service Learning Project.

This year’s donation of more than 150 prom dresses and formal attire went to the local nonprofit Young Women on the Move. The organization distributed dresses to Sumner Academy and Wyandotte, F.L. Schlagle, and Washington high schools.

Nine undergraduate nursing students coordinated the efforts and delivered the items on May 1. Julie Randolph, a 2009 Bachelor’s of Science in Nursing graduate, led the delivery efforts under the mentorship of assistant professor Ginger Breedlove, CNM, PhD, FACNM.

“These students exemplified compassion and emerging professionalism far beyond what is learned in the classroom,” Breedlove said. “I know that the spirit of giving, compassion for community and zest to integrate classroom knowledge with ‘real world’ health delivery is vital to rounding out pre-licensure education, and these students ‘got it.’ It takes a village to educate health professions students, but I truly believe it takes immersion into the village to see why what we do is so needed in our own neighborhood.”

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