Professor Jaclyn Schildkraut is collecting cards for children who have lost a loved in a mass shooting. She is hoping to collect 15,000 cards this year. The deadline for sending a card is December 15, 2019. Professor Schildkraut is a gun violence expert and is on faculty at SUNY Oswego.
“We have 74 kids who lost parents, step-parents, grandparents, siblings in a number of different shootings,” said Schildkraut. “We’re also collecting for several communities — Aurora, Orlando, Newtown, Santa Fe, Pittsburgh, El Paso, Dayton, Odessa/Midland, Las Vegas and Parkland.” – Professor Jaclyn Schildkraut
Robin Cogan, MEd, RN, NCSN is a Nationally Certified School Nurse (NCSN), currently in her 19th year as a New Jersey school nurse in the Camden City School District. Robin is the Legislative Chair for the New Jersey State School Nurses Association. She is proud to be a Johnson & Johnson School Health Leadership Fellow and past Program Mentor. She has been recognized in her home state of New Jersey and nationally for her community-based initiative called “The Community Café: A Conversation That Matters.” Robin is the honored recipient of multiple awards for her work in school nursing and population health. These awards include, 2019 National Association of School Nurses President’s Award, 2018 NCSN School Nurse of the Year, 2017 Johnson & Johnson School Nurse of the Year, and the New Jersey Department of Health 2017 Population Health Hero Award. Robin serves as faculty in the School Nurse Certificate Program at Rutgers University-Camden School of Nursing, where she teaches the next generation of school nurses. She was presented the 2018 Rutgers University – Camden Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award for Part-time Faculty. Follow Robin on Twitter at @RobinCogan.
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