College of Health and Human Development
Director of Development: John Pepitone
(818) 677-5863
john.pepitone@csun.edu
http://www.csun.edu/hhd
- The college celebrated a major step toward providing therapeutic services to the community with the opening of its new Physical Therapy Center for Advanced Clinical Practice, the only one of its kind in the San Fernando Valley.
- Graduate students in the Department of Communication Disorders and Sciences have a pass rate exceeding 95 percent on the national certification exams to become licensed audiologists and speech/language pathologists, well above the national average of 65 percent.
- The college has responded to the critical nursing shortage in California by creating a proposed Accelerated Bachelor of Science in Nursing Degree Program beginning in 2007.
- The Department of Physical Therapy received a grant from UniHealth Foundation to support a research-based falls prevention program, "A Matter of Balance," that will help older adults maintain active, healthy, independent lifestyles.
- The $6 million Abbott and Linda Brown Western Center for Adaptive Aquatic Therapy offers people with disabilities therapeutic exercise programs that are unrivaled in the western United States.
- The Jumpstart Program in the Department of Child & Adolescent Development has been recognized at the city, county and state levels for excellence in community building and literacy for children.
- Recreation and Tourism Management professor Veda Ward was elected to the Board of Trustees of the National Recreation and Park Association. Ward represents the Pacific Southwest Regional Council, which includes California, Hawaii, Utah, Nevada, and Arizona.
- University students from across the western United States test their knowledge of food and what it means to human survival at the college's annual Nutrition College Bowl.
