Board & Staff.
BOARD
Aline M. Holmes, President
RN, APN-C, MSN, APRN(BC), CNAA(BC), CCRN
Aline Holmes is the Senior Vice President of Clinical Affairs for the New Jersey Hospital Association, which represents hospitals, long-term care facilities, home health agencies and other healthcare groups in New Jersey. She assists member facilities in developing programs to improve healthcare and processes, and is responsible for identifying clinical and operational issues that encourage and support patient safety, best practices, improved quality and effectiveness. She is the recent recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to develop a learning network on rapid response teams.
Aline's career began in the U.S. Navy Nurse Corps. She went on to serve as the Director of Nursing and Critical Care Services at both Providence Hospital in Washington D.C. and Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago, Illinois. From 1984 to 1990 she served as the Vice President of Patient Care Services at Jersey Shore Medical Center and in 1990 she became the Corporate Vice President of Operations and Patient Services for the Franciscan Health System of New Jersey. From 1996 to 2002 she served as the Corporate Director of the Multicare Companies, the Senior Vice President of Post Acute Care, and the Senior Manager of Critical Care at the Jersey Shore Medical Center.
Aline holds a Master of Science in Nursing, from Catholic University of America, Washington, DC; a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from the University of Massachusetts, completed post graduate work at Northwestern University J.L. Kellogg School of Management, Chicago, Illinois; and is currently enrolled in a doctoral program in healthcare administration, Kennedy Western University, CA.
David L. Bromley, Treasurer/Secretary
David Bromley was a founding faculty member of Oakland, California's MetWest High School, an alternative public school modeled after the MET schools of Providence, Rhode Island and based on the premise of focusing on one student at a time. Most recently, David has been working with the Big Picture Company as a coach with another MetEast High School that opened in Camden, New Jersey in the Fall of 2005. David is also developing several other high schools in the greater Philadelphia region, and coordinates a number of the Big Picture Company's national efforts.
David has been involved in public education for the past thirteen years. In 1993 he co-founded a non-profit foundation designed to foster a greater awareness of, and commitment to, public schools. As the executive director of the Association of National Scholastic Excellence and Reform (ANSER), David researched and co-wrote In Support of Education: To give all children the opportunity they deserve, a well-received treatise on the present state of public K-12 education.
In 1997 David was coordinator for Each One-Reach one, a mentoring program of the Los Angeles Unified School District that linked over 3,500 community and business volunteers with students. Soon after, David began teaching high school Social Studies at Thomas Jefferson High School in South Central Los Angeles.
David holds a masters degree in education from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles, California, and is currently working towards earning a masters degree in education administration from the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools.
Lisa Pack, Vice President
Lisa Pack is a fourth- and fifth-grade teacher at Philadelphia's Project Learn School, where she is also an educational coordinator responsible for planning, implementing, and evaluating curriculum for all areas of study. She is a lead teacher, with governance responsibilities for overall school functioning.
Lisa graduated Magna Cum Laude from Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, with a bachelor's degree in Elementary Education. Upon graduation, Lisa took a second- and third-grade teaching position at the Oaklane Day School before landing seven years later at her current school, Project Learn. She has more than 30 years of experience in education, and has participated in a variety of professional development programs from the Penn Literacy program.
Alfred Sacchetti, MD, FACEP
Dr. Sacchetti is the Chief of Emergency Services at Our Lady of Lourdes
Medical Center in Camden, NJ, and Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He received his bachelor's degree in chemistry from La Salle College and his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania.
Dr. Sacchetti is both a dedicated researcher and enthusiastic educator with over 75 journal publications and textbook chapters, as well as over 200 national and international lectures, to his credit. His research focuses include Procedural Sedation and Analgesics, Children with Special Health Care Needs (CSHCN) and Congestive Heart Failure. Dr. Sacchetti co-authored the nation's first Emergency Medical Services for Children Law, pioneered the Emergency Information Form for CSHCN for the American College of Emergency Physician and serves as a peer reviewer for over a dozen professional journals including the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Journal of American Medical Association, the British Medical Journal and the Annals of Emergency Medicine. He is past president of the New Jersey American College of Emergency Physicians and former president of the Medical Staff of Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center. In addition to his administrative responsibilities Dr. Sacchetti maintains a full time clinical practice as a general emergency physician.
Louis Gold
Louis comes to Children Can Shape the Future with a strong background in accounting. He has been a CPA for 26 years, and has worked extensively in Hospitals and Health Administration.
Louis was born in Philadelphia but raised in Wildwood, NJ. He received his bachelor's degree from Rutgers University where he majored in Zoology. He holds an MBA from Widener University in Health Administration and he served as Hospital Administrator at Saint Christopher's Hospital. While there, he helped facilitate 2.5 million dollars in grants to provide health care to inner city youth.
Recently, Louis started his own accounting firm. He has two sons, and lives in the Cherry Hill area with his wife of 26 years.
Aaron Weitz
Aaron is an undergraduate student at Haverford College where he is majoring in English and pursuing a minor in Educational Studies. Deeply interested in issues of literacy and school discourses, he enjoys working in an ESL classroom during the summer and ultimately hopes to teach English at the high school level. Aaron is originally from Elkins Park, Pennsylvania and roots heavily for both the Phillies and the Eagles.
Rosemary M. Cataldi
Rosemary Cataldi is principal of the John Hancock Demonstration School, where teachers from the city and surrounding regions are invited to observe best practices in action.
Rosemary was born in Philadelphia, PA, where she attended Philadelphia High School for Girls and Temple University, where she earned bachelors and masters degrees in education, with a focus on early childhood education. She has been an educator for over 32 years.
Rosemary taught kindergarten, first- and fourth-grade classes at the Ferguson School, located just six blocks from Temple University. She served as a staff developer, teacher, coach, and change facilitator for 10 years, working throughout the district to help low-performing schools improve their test scores. She helped several schools attain model status with the Coalition of Essential Schools, a national school reform organization. She currently serves as president of the board of Mid-Atlantic Coalition of Essential Schools, the local center for the Coalition.
Rosemary served as a teaching and learning coordinator for the Olney Cluster before becoming an elementary school principal at Cook-Wissahickon school, where the staff nominated her for the Marcus Foster Principal of Excellence Award. Throughout her career she has mentored many principals in training, and still runs a Critical Friends Group of Principal Colleagues.
Rosemary has two sons and lives in Maple Glen, Pennsylvania.
STAFF
Jonathan Holmes, Executive Director
Jonathan Holmes has been involved with Children Can Shape the Future from the very beginning, when his aunt, Kathleen MacDonnell, asked for his assistance in creating a non-profit foundation to fulfill her philanthropic goals. He is CCSF's executive director.
Jonathan Holmes is a graduate of Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he majored in fine arts, with a double minor in Art History and Education. From 2003 to 2005 he was the Fine Arts Chair at West Nottingham Academy in Colora, Maryland, where he also taught painting, drawing, sculpture, and photography.
Sarah Morris, Site VIsit Liaison
Sarah Morris attended Bethesda Chevy Chase HIgh School in Bethesda, Maryland before moving on to Undergraduate Studies at Haverford College. She graduated with honors from Haverford in 2008 with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a minor in Education. She also had the opportunity to study abroad in Prague at the Collegium Hieronymi Pragensis. While at Haverford Sarah played soccer for the women's soccer team and has continued her relationship with the sport in her first year as Varsity Head Coach at the Baldwin School. She continues to pursue an interest in Education working as an assistant fifth grade teacher at Wissahickon Charter School.
Tiffany Wright, Administrative Assistant
Tiffany Wright has been employed in telecommunication and administrative fields since before receiving her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communications from Monmouth University in 2003. She brings to CCSF a strong background in interpersonal communication skills and is proud to be working in the non-profit community. Tiffany currently lives in South Jersey with her husband and two dogs.
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