WHEELOCK COLLEGE OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT Order of Events

Musical Selection Saki Iwamoto

CPAHD Welcome Melissa Holt Awards Ceremony

Opening Remarks Dean Chard

Presentation of Awards CPAHD Faculty Lynne Frances Rob Cong Larrice Voranan DiBernardo Welcome Mongkolpumirat Gaines Cardenas Zhang Closing Remarks Melissa Holt

Daniela Emma Caroline Jessica Danielly Belen Novoa Ramirez Kraus English Koslouski Rodriguez Reyes Congratulations to our award recipients!

THURSDAY MAY 20TH, 2021 6 - 8PM Psychology and Human Development

Belen Novoa Reyes Voranan Mongkolpumirat Belen Novoa Reyes is a Psychology and Human Development Voranan Mongkolpumirat, MSW, is a 2012 graduate of historic major with a minor in Emotional and Behavioral Challenges in Wheelock College. Upon completing her double major in Social Schools. Belen was accepted and entered Historic Wheelock Work and Human Development with a focus in Psychology, through the Honors Program and has spent the past three Voranan worked as a Food Security Specialist in Pang, Parbat semesters on the Dean’s List. Belen uses her quiet, but powerful District, in Nepal for two years through the United States Peace voice to speak up for justice and inclusion in her classes and her Corps. In this role, she planned and conducted a comprehensive community.During her time as a volunteer with Global Embassy assessment encompassing health, education, environment, social, of Activists for Peace, she met with senators to advocate for the and economic status of 5,000 Nepalese for the Peace Corps, and rights of undocumented students to earn a driver’s license to implemented a five-day empowerment camp for 36 girls and 9 access work opportunities and visited local schools to educate women community leaders about health, gender roles, students about the Holocaust. Belen emigrated from Chile at 11 leadership, career opportunities, and life skills. She went on to years old and worked hard to learn English and to excel pursue her graduate studies in Social Work at the University of academically. She is a graduate of Lynn Classical High School in Washington in Seattle, WA. During her graduate work, she had Lynn, Massachusetts, and describes her family as a significant the opportunities to support asylum seekers in Washington, and source of support. Belen’s future plans are to attend graduate this led her to her current work as an asylum officer. Since 2018, school and to work at a youth-based community organization she has worked as an asylum officer in New York and Boston, where she can mentor and support the development of youth in interviewing and reviewing asylum cases, and developing her community. Belen shared that she enjoyed her experience at instructional guide for topics such as asylum pre-screening Wheelock and hopes that other students also had a great procedures, sexual and gender-based violence, and secondary experience. Belen described her professors as inclusive and trauma. caring and shared that they had a positive impact on her time at Wheelock. For this Belen shared, she “will never forget.” Youth Justice and Advocacy

Larrice Welcome Larrice graduated from CPAHD's Youth Justice and Advocacy program in 2008 where she was president of the Juvenile Justice Club. She went on to receive a Masters in Social Work from Danielly Rodriguez Wheelock in 2012. She has worked for multiple social programs Danielly is a patient and dedicated child care worker who is around the city of Boston such as the Learn @ Lenox Afterschool passionate about providing quality, learner-centered instruction and Summer Program, BSAFE @ Epiphany, BPS, and Riverside that optimizes student success. She currently works as a Certified Community Care. Presently, Larrice is a supervisor for the Infant Teacher at the Village preschool in Roslindale where she Department of Children and Families, overseeing the work of assists with implementing daily lesson plans, and supports her other social workers for the department. Larrice provides clinical fellow staff members.. For her Senior Integrative Capstone, services to patients and families at Beth Israel Deconness Medical Danielly was a member of the Teen Art Council program, working Center partnering with case managers and the multidisiplinary with youth at the Museum of Fine Arts in boston to organize, team for outpatient care planning. Larrice's educational implement, document, exhibit, and evaluate a collaborative youth experiences and work throughout Boston demonstrate her art-making project. This project was designed to foster positive earnest dedication to social justice and equity. youth development and the spirit of Ubuntu. Danielly is committed to providing support and resources to underserved, disadvantaged and underprivileged children and youth. Child Life and Family-Centered Care

Lynne Gaines Lynne Gaines is the Statewide Director of the Playspace Program and Volunteer Services at Horizons for Homeless Children. Lynne has over three decades of experience serving children and families in a variety of settings. She holds an undergraduate degree from Wheelock College in Child Life and Early Childhood Education with Special Needs. She received her master’s degree from Wheelock College in Leadership and Administration in Daniela Ramirez Early Childhood Policy from Wheelock College in 1995. Lynne’s Daniela Ramirez is a graduate student in Boston University’s career began as a Child Life Specialist at Boston Children’s Wheelock’s Child Life and Family-Centered Care program. Since Hospital followed by positions at Children’s Hospital of high school, Daniela knew she wanted to be a child life specialist Philadelphia and Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital. She has when a former high school teacher who was also a graduate of worked in the field of early intervention, sharing her expertise as Wheelock College told her about the program. She has completed a developmental specialist before transitioning to her current child life coursework concurrent with her first internship at role at Horizons for Homeless Children. Since joining the Boston Children’s Hospital and her current internship at Playspace Program at Horizons for Homeless Children, her Massachusetts General Hospital for Children. In both leadership has focused on advocating for developmentally internships, she has created therapeutic relationships, provided informed programming with a focus on family-centered play opportunities, offered coping techniques, and advocated for care.Lynne’s passion lies in harnessing the power of play to children and families. She will be graduating in May 2021 and support children during traumatic experiences for healing and aspires to continue to support children and families. In the growth. In her current position, she oversees 95 therapeutic future, Daniela hopes to bring the field of child life to hospitals Playspaces across the state of Massachusetts. The program and communities not currently served by the profession. connects volunteers with children living in homeless shelters and a newly opened state of the art early education center to create opportunities to engage in meaningful connection and developmentally appropriate play. Lynne looks forward to being a leader in expanding the role of child life professionals outside of a hospital setting inorder to meet the needs of children and families where they are, as they are. EdM in Counseling

Frances Cardenas Frances Cárdenas (Wheelock ’17, EdM in Counseling, Sport Psychology) is currently a Mental Skills Coach for the Philadelphia Phillies Organization. As a bilingual Mental Skills Emma Kraus Coach, she holds one-on-one meetings with Spanish-speaking Emma Kraus, Sports Psychology, has been selected as the Master’s players across the Phillies’ Minor Leagues, as well as group In Counseling Program’s Student of the Year. They have excelled workshops on a range of topics related to the mental side of in the classroom and at their sport and mental health internships. baseball. In addition, Frances works closely with players who find Emma is a deeply committed and thoughtful person. They have themselves in the injury and rehabilitation setting, in order to epitomized BU Wheelock’s focus on building a better, more just normalize their responses to injury and train the psychological world as seen through their work in research, applied work, aspects of their rehabilitation. Frances also assists young advocacy, and service in multiple organizations focused on social international players in the Phillies’ Dominican Republic justice. Emma’s clinical internship supervisor praises them as one Baseball Academy in the cultural adaptation process, and of the strongest interns they have ever supervised citing Emma’s provides clinical referrals to the Phillies’ Employees Assistance excellent clinical knowledge and skills for someone with their Program if needed. Lastly, Frances collaborates with coaches and level of experience and their high level of intellectual curiosity. with Mental Skills team members Geoff Miller, Hannah Huesman, and Manuel Antuña to develop an elite Mental Skills program that will positively impact players’s lives on and off the field. EdM in Applied Human Development

Robert Dibernardo As a triple-Terrier, Rob has deep ties to the BU community. He is a valued member of the BU Wheelock community. In his graduate studies he came in as a Coaching specialization student but then pursued his degree in Counseling Psychology. His dissertation delved into how Mindfulness-based approaches could be used in sport. His dissertation title: Implementation and Impact of the Mindfulness Meditation Training For Sport (MMTS) 2.0 Protocol Caroline English with a Division III Women's College Basketball Team and Caroline was born and raised in Dorchester, MA and Caroline Coaching Staff. At present, Rob is a Mental Performance Coach still lives there today. Caroline was a student at Boston Latin for theToronto Blue Jays. From 2010-19, he was the Associate Academy for 4 years and transferred to Tabor Academy where she Head Mens’ basketball Coach at MIT responsible for on-court graduated in 2009. Caroline was a two year captain of the Holy coaching, player development, alumni communications and Cross Women's ice Hockey Team, Caroline majored in Sociology engagement, fundraising, scouting, recruiting, youth and graduated in 2013. Upon graduating from Holy Cross she programming, designing and implementing workshops: shared worked as a mentor for student athletes in Boston Public Schools vision, values and goal-setting •191-56 (77%) Coaching Record. In for the Scholar Athletes Program. After two years, Caroline began 2012-14, Rob worked as a Coach Mentor/Trainer in BU Institute working for Boston Public Schools as a student support team for Athletic Coach Education’s collaboration with Up2Us Sports member, a physical education teacher, and a restorative justice inspires youth to achieve their potential by providing them counselor. Outside of school, Caroline coaches 3 seasons of coaches who are trained in positive youth development. In 2004- varsity sports for BPS including soccer, hockey, and softball. In 9 in his role at the Assistant Dean of Students at The Cambridge addition to coaching and teaching, Caroline helps run a program School of Weston he help provide a progressive education that called the Urban Athlete Project, which provides free fitness emphasizes deep learning, meaningful relationships and a training to student athletes in Boston. dynamic program that inspires students to discover who they are and what their contribution is to their school, their community and the world. PhD in Counseling Psychology and Applied Human Development

Cong Zhang Cong Zhang graduated from the CPAHD program in 2017 with a concentration in Counseling Psychology. Cong currently works at the Boston University Student Health Services as a staff psychologist, and she provides counseling, assessment, and Jessica Koslouski consultation services for the BU community. As a student at Jess is a graduating fourth-year doctoral candidate in Applied CPAHD, she enjoyed her work at the Social Adjustment & Human Development. Jess researches the implementation and Bullying Prevention Lab under the advisement of Dr. Melissa utilization of trauma-informed practices in schools. For her Holt. She completed her pre-doctoral clinical internship at dissertation, Jess led the design, implementation, and evaluation Cambridge Health Alliance and postdoctoral fellowship at of a professional development intervention in trauma-informed Massachusetts General Hospital. Cong is passionate about teaching practices. Jess used Design-Based Research, an approach psychological assessment and culturally informed mental health focused on creating feasible, acceptable, and sustainable care. educational interventions, to collaboratively design the intervention with educators. Jess is interested in how educators take up trauma-informed practices and the potential of these practices to improve the well-being and success of students and educators. Long term, Jess plans to study how trauma-informed school practices may increase educator efficacy, reduce racial disparities in exclusionary discipline practices, and promote school connectedness for students and families alike.