SSW assistant professor contributes to Board of Visitors member’s new book on preventing child sexual abuse

Paul DiLorenzo, a member of the College of Public Health’s Board of Visitors and Temple master of social work graduate, has co-edited a new book, Child Sexual Abuse: Practical Approaches to Prevention and Intervention, intended as a resource for therapists, pediatricians, caseworkers, victim advocates, and law enforcement professionals. DiLorenzo, a child welfare expert who has served as part-time faculty member in the School of Social Work, collaborated on the book with Teresa Huizar, chief executive officer of Washington, D.C.-based National Children’s Alliance. Julia Kobu...
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Padilla awarded for research examining sexual assault against Deaf individuals in the Philippines

For recent College of Public Health graduate Samantha Padilla, CPH '23, what began as her curiosity about American Sign Language (ASL) led to an award-winning research paper about a troubling issue affecting the Deaf community. Padilla’s paper, “Creating Positive Change for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Individuals in the Philippines,” focuses on the prevalence of sexual assault perpetrated on Deaf people in the Philippines.   The paper won Temple’s Livingstone Undergraduate Research Award in General Education. It was written as part of an assignment—to create a Wikipedi...
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Pfeiffer, Wilbanks named to 2023 Gallery of Success

The Temple University Gallery of Success, which honors esteemed alumni, has named College of Public Health and School of Social Work graduates Alyse D. Wilbanks and Beth A. Pfeiffer to its 2023 list of honorees. Now in its 25th year, the Gallery of Success celebrates outstanding professional achievement by graduates of Temple’s 17 schools and colleges.  Alyse D. Wilbanks, who earned her BSW from the School of Social Work in 2008, is a child advocate at the Defender Association of Philadelphia, which represents dependent youth in Philadelphia Family Court. Wilbanks had begun...
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Career in strength and conditioning takes McGurn from the rugby pitch to the boxing ring

Before he was a renowned strength and conditioning coach, before he trained Premier League soccer teams in England and the Irish national rugby squad or prepared Irish boxer Bernard Dunne to win a world championship, Mike McGurn, CPH '91, was a quiet teenager who came to Temple as a physical education major. He arrived in 1987 from his home in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, a chance to get away from The Troubles, with a scholarship to run on Temple’s cross-country team. He showed potential to be a world-class distance runner until injuries sidetracked his dream of run...
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Scholarship honors the memory of alumna Martha Grace Armonio-Tan, an early advocate of recreational therapy

Martha Grace Armonio came to the United States from the Philippines with her mom, Maria Aida, when she was eight years old.  She recalled how interesting it was to see her first snowfall in Philadelphia. She later was joined by her older sister and brother with her father a few years later. Among her initial visits was to Washington, DC, where she visited friends of the family. They included a boy named Peter, whom she would begin dating 10 years later when they were in college. Grace, as she was known to family and friends, graduated from Philadelphia’s Northeast High Schoo...
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How public health informs a career in state politics

Amanda Cappelletti is the only member of the Pennsylvania legislature with a degree in public health. She earned her master’s degree in health policy and management at the College of Public Health in 2017 while concurrently getting a law degree from Temple’s Beasley School of Law in the law and public policy program. In 2020, she was elected to her first term in Pennsylvania’s state senate as a Democrat in the 17th district, which includes much of Montgomery County and parts of Delaware County outside of Philadelphia. Cappelletti serves on committees including Health and...
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Liz Bland

Alumna keeps social work roots while growing women's health resources

Liz Bland, SSW '05, has built a career combining her expertise in health policy and administration with ground-level clinical social work. Even as she was building a new behavioral health division of the Philadelphia-area Main Line Health system in 2013—creating what would become the first of two outpatient mental health centers for women—she worked hands-on as a psychotherapist, seeing patients as part of that program. “That's the beauty of the social work degree. You have the ability to play different roles in organizations,” says Bland, who received her Master of S...
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Kaitlin Cartoccio

Alumna receives national honor as community health coordinator

Temple public health graduate Kaitlin Cartoccio, CPH '12, has been recognized as one of “40 Under 40 in Public Health,” a national honor highlighting leaders who are improving the health of communities across the country. Cartoccio is making an impact at the local level as community programs coordinator for Bernards Township, New Jersey. She manages programs including health education events at schools, neighborhood health screenings and vaccination clinics, working as a leader in the health department where she interned while studying at Temple.  “I really feel like Tem...
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Leaders in diversity, child welfare named to Gallery of Success

College of Public Health alumna Sandra Davis, CPH ’91, and School of Social Work alumna Kimberly Ali, SSW ’99, have been named this year’s inductees into Temple University’s Gallery of Success, which honors alumni who have used their experience at Temple to make an impact in their field. Davis and Ali will be honored on the Gallery’s website and as part of a display in the lower level of Mitten Hall.  Read more about our inductees: ...
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DEI Speaker Series panel discusses actions to address structural racism

On October 26, 2020, Philadelphia police fatally shot Walter Wallace Jr., a 27-year-old Black man, after his family had called for an ambulance because he was having a mental health crisis. Wallace, who had a history of such episodes, held a knife. The killing set off angry protests in the city. It also spurred conversations about the intersection between structural racism in policing and the often inadequate way that cities handle emergency response to mental health situations.  In January, a panel of Temple faculty and guest experts discussed these issues in a video webinar...
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