A Little Friendly Competition Helps Out in a Big Way: The Career Wardrobe Benefits from JCHP Scrubs Drive

Featured in photo: Jefferson Allied Health Professions Week representatives deliver scrubs to The Career Wardrobe on November 14, 2008.

As part of this year’s Allied Health Professions Week celebration, Jefferson College of Health Professions students, faculty and staff pitched in pennies (and other currency!) for a good cause and raised $437.20 to benefit The Career Wardrobe. 

For three weeks in October and November, the JCHP community engaged in a game of Penny Wars, tossing coins into jars labeled for each academic division. Through friendly competition to earn points for their respective departments, participants were able to raise a significant sum, which was used to purchase scrubs for local women transitioning into the workforce.
With the Penny Wars funds, as well as scrubs donated during the same period of time, the College donated 27 pairs of scrubs to the non-profit.

“I’m delighted with the outcome of this year’s Allied Health Professions Week community outreach,” says James B. Erdmann, PhD, Dean of the Jefferson College of Health Professions. “The interdisciplinary camaraderie among students from all of the programs and the corresponding support of local health professionals represent the best of Jefferson.  Our students, faculty, and staff can be proud of all they accomplished this Allied Health Professions Week.”

About The Career Wardrobe

The Career Wardrobe is a nonprofit organization that serves thousands of women in transition by providing free professional clothing and educational opportunities in the Philadelphia region. Our services empower women by inspiring the confidence necessary to achieve self-sufficiency.

Jefferson College of Health Professions

Jefferson College of Health Professions is an integral part of one of the nation's first academic health centers, Thomas Jefferson University. The University also includes Jefferson Medical College and Jefferson College of Graduate Studies. JCHP has three schools: a School of Health Professions, consisting of Departments of Bioscience Technologies, Couple and Family Therapy, General Studies, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy and Radiologic Sciences; a School of Nursing; and a School of Pharmacy.

At Jefferson, students learn in a community of clinicians, physicians, researchers, and educators, and they have access to world-class facilities and learning opportunities. The collaboration that happens here is an important part of educating members of the healthcare team to work together.

Contact:
Jacqueline Paquet
jacqueline.paquet@jefferson.edu

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