October 2011

Nursing faculty Dr. Nancy Rothman, Dr. Fran Ward, and Dr. Rhonda Maneval received top honors from The Innovation and Entrepreneurship Institute, part of the Fox School of Business, when they were awarded first prize for social innovation in the 14th Annual Innovative Idea Awards Program.  Additionally, they won the People's Choice Award in the overall competition.  The team was recognized for the establishment of nurse-managed wellness centers in two charter schools in Philadelphia aimed at improving the health indices of children, increasing immunization rates, and reducing absenteeism.

The competition encourages the generation of innovative new products, services and technologies from all 17 schools and colleges within Temple University which can become the foundation for new businesses.

“I take great pride in these awards and the underlying relationships that make them possible,” said Dr. Ward,  chair of the Department of Nursing.  “We are so fortunate to have a strong team with great passion, tenacity, and commitment to improving the lives of inner city residents."

During the Philadelphia International Dragon Boat Festival Oct. 1, a team from the Department of Rehabilitation Sciences Therapeutic Recreation program paddled to raise money  for a scholarship in memory of John Noisette, a founding member of the TR Program and Temple's wheelchair basketball team, which he coached to a number one ranking in the Mid-Atlantic Division from 1985 to 1987. 

Cheryl Hyde, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Social Work,  was awarded nearly $1.5 million by the Administration for Children and Families/DHHS this month for her project:  Building Capacities/Making Connections: A Multi-Year Study of Human and Social Capital Development through the HIP Career Pathways Initiative. 

The Center for Social Policy and Community Development has been offering adult basic education programs geared to out-of-school youth and adults for over three decades, an effort aimed at tackling a troubling statistic: only 57% of high school students in Philadelphia graduate in four years.

CSPCD recently received two awards for its Workforce Education and Lifelong Learning (WELL) Program, totaling $528,899 from the Bureau of Adult Basic Education under the Pennsylvania Department of Education.  The Center was also awarded $278,000, from the Philadelphia Youth Network under the Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board for out-of-school youth programs focused on GED to College and Occupational Skills Training. 

During a recent nursing symposium co-sponsored by the Nursing Alliance for Quality Care and the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, several nursing graduates along with nursing faculty member, Michael Clark DrNP, CRNP (not pictured) were guests of Jeannie Miller, RN, MPH, Deputy Director, Clinical Standards Group, at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in Baltimore MD.    

The symposium addressed actual and potential changes in health policy and their impact on quality measures and reimbursement for nurse managed health centers. 

(Pictured at right) Jeannie Miller, RN, MPH, Deputy Director of the Clinical Standards Group (center seated) with (standing left to right), Shawn Jackson, MSN, CRNP, Laurie Tillery-Russell, MSN, CRNP and Deborah Stallworth, MSN, CRNP. 

CHPSW's Intergenerational Center's Time Out respite program was selected to receive a $10,000 grant from Phillies Charities, Inc. because of its dedication to making a positive impact on the local community.

For more than 25 years, Time Out has been supporting families in the Philadelphia area with respite services. "The money from the Phillies Charities will help support general operating expenses so that we may continue to provide high quality, affordable respite services to caregivers and promote the ability of their frail elderly relatives to continue living at home," said Susan Smith, Director of Time Out.

Time Out received the 2008 National Caregivers Award from the National Caregiving Alliance & Met Life Foundation and was recently designated a "Program of Distinction" by Generations United, the leading intergenerational organization in the United States. For more information on Time Out, visit www.timeoutprogram.org.
 

In response to the earthquake and tsunami in Japan in the spring, Beyond our Borders, a Temple University Harrisburg student group whose mission is to contribute to the practice of international social work, held several fundraisers and sent donations to support relief efforts to Temple University Japan.  Beyond Our Borders members raised funds at the TUH campus through a fair-trade coffee and chocolate selling project and organized a fundraiser at the Tokyo Diner in Harrisburg.  Their focus on Japanese relief projects and the practice of international social work will continue through the fall.