Pictured from left to right: Donna C. Pressma, LCSW, president and chief executive officer, The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey; Christine Saltzman, BSN ’09, MSN, ’13, secretary, Upsilon Rho Chapter; Holly Leahan, MSN, RN, nursing program and graduate practicum advisor, W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing, Thomas Edison State College; Maritza Raimundi-Petroski, director, Maternal/Child Health, Family and Community Support Services, The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey; and Gary Fassler, BSN ’08, MSN ’11, treasurer, Upsilon Rho Chapter.
Thomas Edison State College’s Upsilon Rho Chapter of the Honor Society of Nursing, Sigma Theta Tau International, recently made a $500 charitable donation to The Children’s Home Society of New Jersey. The chapter allocated a portion of its membership dues to fund the group’s annual holiday giving effort.
The funds donated will help to provide additional programming and services for two of CHSofNJ’s Maternal/Child Health, Family and Community Support Services programs, CUNA and Body and Soul. CUNA is a prenatal health education and support program that addresses the unique cultural and linguistic needs of Latina women, predominantly Spanish-speaking recent immigrants. Body and Soul provides a holistic approach to prenatal health for pregnant women and women in their childbearing years through customized programming.
The Upsilon Rho Chapter is comprised of more than 200 Thomas Edison State College alumni who have demonstrated superior academic achievement, academic integrity and professional leadership potential. These students hold either bachelor’s or master’s degrees from the College’s W. Cary Edwards School of Nursing and must have maintained a minimum 3.0 or 3.5 GPA, respectively, on a 4.0 scale. In addition, students must be ranked in the top 35 percent of their graduating class to be considered for membership.
