College of Public Health

Take a look inside the College of Public Health’s Year in Review to find out what happened in the 2014-2015 academic year.

Temple Opens Free Physical Therapy Clinic in North Philadelphia

College of Public Health (CPH) students, faculty and alumni realized a long-held dream in opening the North Broad Physical Therapy Center, a pro bono student-run clinic for residents of North Philadelphia. Click here to read the full article.

+ 5 CPH programs selected to participate in Fall 2015 OwlCrowd Campaign

The OwlCrowd is Temple University’s crowdfunding community where select Temple opportunities are featured during 45-day cycles to raise money and awareness. The OwlCrowd campaign began on Friday, October 23, and will end on Monday, December 7. Projects remain active on the website after the campaign ends and can still receive donations. Click here and read below to learn more about our fantastic programs and how you can support them.

First Book For as little as $1 you can give the gift of reading to a child in need in North Philadelphia. A Temple University study found that there were only 33 books per 10,000 children living in low-income Philadelphia neighborhoods. You can change that for less than the price of a cup of coffee. Students and professors are partnering with the social service agency, Women, Infants & Children (WIC) to distribute children’s books to low-income families in North Philadelphia.

College Bound Academy for Foster Care Youth School of Social Work The Temple College Bound Academy will address the educational disparity experienced by youth in foster care, residing in the Philadelphia area.

The program is designed to address the issue at critical stages of adolescent development, times in which they are at most risk for dropping out of school, most influenced by positive and negative peer influences, and when academics are most important in terms of preparing for college and career options.

North Broad Physical Therapy Center Department of Physical Therapy Department of Physical Therapy The mission of the center is to provide services to uninsured or underinsured residents of the North Philadelphia Community through pro bono physical therapy services. At the North Broad Physical Therapy Center, student and licensed physical therapists will evaluate and treat clients of any age with muscle, bone, joint, balance, cardiovascular, pulmonary, or neurological dysfunctions.

Occupational Therapy 50 Year Legacy Campaign Occupational Therapy Program Temple University Occupational Therapy is the oldest existing occupational therapy education program in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The Temple University OT program will turn 50 years old in 2018. Temple University has graduated over 1500 graduates in its 50 year legacy, who are prominent leaders in the profession of occupational therapy.

Speak Now Camp for Teens who Stutter Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders This camp will provide young people who stutter a supportive environment where they can develop their own goals about speaking and stuttering. Therapeutic activities will help participants learn more about the phenomenon of stuttering; develop their own plan for practice; develop strategies to manage the social and emotional challenges; and learn how to communicate to their parents about stuttering.

+ Op-Ed: Mark Salzer discusses mistake in linking violence and mental health policy together

In an opinion piece in The Philadelphia Inquirer, Mark Salzer, chair of the Rehabilitation Sciences Department, discusses the fallacy in using violence and crime in mental health policy discussions and that such a narrative leads to ineffective policies. Here is an excerpt from the piece. Read the full story online.

Mass murders committed by persons with a mental illness are exceedingly rare. A recent study published in the American Journal of Public Health demonstrated that people with mental illnesses are no more likely to kill others with a gun than the general population. Authors of a previous article in the same prestigious journal concluded that solutions to gun violence that target people with mental illnesses are unlikely to have an effect. The percentage of people with serious mental illnesses is virtually identical around the world. Yet only in the United States are violence and crime seriously discussed as being related to those with mental illnesses. And the mental-health system in the United States, while not close to being perfect, is arguably among the most advanced in the world, undermining arguments that it is at fault.

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