{"id":118192,"date":"2016-10-18T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=118192"},"modified":"2016-10-18T09:26:15","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T13:26:15","slug":"ssw-alumni-recognized-hometown-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2016\/10\/ssw-alumni-recognized-hometown-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"SSW Alumni Recognized as Hometown Heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year, the Hartford Courant newspaper recognizes outstanding individuals for their service to the community. This year, these \u201cHometown Heroes\u201d include UConn School of Social Work MSW and PhD alumni.<\/p>\n

\"Tynisha
Tynisha Tyson ’05 MSW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tynisha Tyson \u201905 MSW, is a School Social Worker in the Hartford Public Schools.\u00a0\u00a0Her\u00a0caseload includes children experiencing abuse, neglect, abandonment and extreme poverty. There are children wondering about their next meal, or being evicted from their home, or witnessing domestic violence, or feeling the disruption of a parent landing in prison. Tynisha\u00a0is described as an anchor at Thirman L. Milner Elementary School where she has been the school social worker for the past four years.<\/p>\n

\"Windham
Catina Caban-Owen \u201909 PhD; Nussie Halpine \u201992 MSW; Loida Reyes \u201998 MSW, \u201915 PhD; and current MSW student Michael Marshall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After the death of a 3-year-old Willimantic girl from child abuse in 2013 \u2014 just two years after the child-abuse death of another 3-year-old-girl in\u00a0town,\u00a0Catina Caban-Owen \u201909 PhD and Nussie Halpine \u201992 MSW founded the\u00a0Windham Task Force to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect, a volunteer group dedicated to raising awareness.\u00a0Loida Reyes \u201998 MSW, \u201915 PhD and current MSW student Michael Marshall are also members of the task force.<\/p>\n

\"Marissa
Marissa Giarnella-Porco \u201991 MSW<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Marissa Giarnella-Porco \u201991 MSW and her husband Eric\u00a0co-founded the Jordan Porco Foundation, a Hartford-based nonprofit that seeks to promote mental health awareness for young adults and to prevent suicide \u2014 the second leading cause of death among 15- to 24-year-olds, according to the federal Centers For Disease Control and Prevention. In\u00a0February 2011 their son died by suicide. To channel their grief, Marissa and Eric created a nationwide suicide prevention program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Each year, the Hartford Courant newspaper recognizes outstanding individuals for their service to the community. This year, these \u201cHometown Heroes\u201d include UConn School of Social Work MSW and PhD alumni. Tynisha Tyson \u201905 MSW, is a School Social Worker in the Hartford Public Schools.\u00a0\u00a0Her\u00a0caseload includes children experiencing abuse, neglect, abandonment and extreme poverty. There are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":118199,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1870],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1869],"class_list":["post-118192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ssw"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-10 08:22:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/118199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118192"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=118192"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=118192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}