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Health Services
Project Description: This project will investigate public and non-profit health and social service programs in Trenton, including poverty-related health care needs and services in the city's most marginalized neighborhoods. As an example, please see the project completed in 2007.
Antonino Scarpati is an educator with more than twenty years of experience as an administrator, teacher, trainer and consultant. He currently serves as Assistant Dean for the School of Nursing, Health and Exercise Science at TCNJ. An avid social justice advocate, he also teaches courses in social work and poverty as an Adjunct Professor in the departments of Sociology and Anthropology and Liberal Learning. In his previous role as Director of Civic Leadership Development at TCNJ, he developed a nationally-recognized civic engagement program involving thousands of students in more than 150,000 hours of service and learning. He has worked with numerous colleges and universities, K-12 schools, non-profit and government agencies, professional organizations and corporations as a consultant and speaker. Areas of expertise include strategic leadership, civic engagement and service learning, community building, cross-cultural competence and conflict resolution.
Erin-Ellen Dillon will be a junior nursing major has an English Minor and Health Communications Concentration. She is a member of The Off-Campus Student Organization and has worked with Office of Anti-Violence on their Sexual Assault Awareness April Planning Committee. The area of nursing that interests her the most is women’s health. Her dream job would be to work on a high-risk maternity floor. She is hoping to eventually get a masters degree in nursing and become a Women’s Health NP. She is excited about this summer research opportunity as it offers a chance to research how differences in socio-economic status affect a woman’s health.
