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M. LOUISE FITZPATRICK COLLEGE OF NURSING

Trash and Burn Movie Screening

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Faculty, staff and students are invited to a movie screening and panel discussion for Trash and Burn, the story of Zulene Mayfield, on April 24 at 5:30pm in Driscoll Hall.

Located in an affluent, majority white county, the city of Chester, Pennsylvania, is mostly black and home to an unprecedented cluster of industrial polluting facilities. Trash & Burn, by local filmmaker Bilal Motley, follows one woman's decades-long fight to stop the nation's largest trash incinerator from polluting her small town.

Panelists:

  • Erin Johnson, MPH, RN – public health nurse
  • Zulene Mayfield - Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living (CRCQL)
  • Bilal Motley – film maker and Chester, PA native.
  • Tikia Robinson - Chester parent of child with asthma.

Continuing Education Opportunities:

  • Villanova Students: ACS approved.
  • Nursing CE is available for nurses free of charge.
  • Social Work Continuing Education, for members of National Association of Social Workers (NASW). First 20 NASW members are free, after that $15 for NASW members, $25 non-member.
REGISTER TO ATTEND


This event is being hosted by Fitzpatrick College of Nursing's Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment (MACCHE) and the Center for Global and Public Health 

Villanova University M. Louise Fitzpatrick College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

Participation in this entire program and submission of program evaluation, will award participants 1.5 contact hours.

Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and the Environment

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