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AMCD Latinas/os Concerns Adelaida Santana Pellicier, Ph.D. Comadres, Compadres, Ahijados, Friends, Welcome to the 2010-11 AMCD/Latino/a Concerns. Thank you for joining us in our mission. We, in Latino/a Concerns, continue to promote service to our communities this year and through our work and diligence to ensure social justice for our communities and our brothers and sisters in this era of the resurgence of racism, and bashing of immigrants and our Latino communities. Many more states are echoing Arizona's recent Senate Bill 1070, assuming erroneously that all Latinos are undocumented and criminals. We have our work cut out for us locally and nationally in ensuring justice for all and addressing the mental wellness of our people. In order to achieve our mission and related goals, we need your involvement and support. Contact me or the committee chairs below to join any one of our efforts. I encourage you to refer to the AMCD site and the link to our By-laws to familiarize yourself with our mission and procedures. Latino/a Concerns is represented on the AMCD Executive Council by a Vice-President, a full-voting member who serves for three(3) years. We vote for our Vice-President-Elect-Elect every second year so as to prepare each VP for the role on the Executive Council. Presently, Diane Estrada(2011-2014) is our VP-Elect and Jose Maldonado is our VP Elect-Elect(2014-2017). This year we are also concerned and are working on behalf of those who have experienced trauma and losses as a result of the earthquakes this Spring, specifically Chile and Guatemala. In response to our Guatemalan families, Dr. Edil Torres Rivera (edil0001@ufl.edu) has led the way to assist Dra. Maria del Pilar Grazioso and her students, traveling to Guatemala with his expertise and resources for the communities, the latter provided by him and some of our Latino(a) members. With my initiative, financial assistance from Dr. Rivera Torres, our AMCD President, and our Chilean Latino members, Angelo Gomez and Carlos Zalaquette, we have provided a video on the earthquake's impact on the mental health of Chilenos, both in Chile and here in the states. The link appears both on the AMCD website and this LAT-NET webpage. The issues covered are quite compelling and provoking. Carlos and Angelo and others will offer an ACA 2011 Conference session on this topic. In addition, committees are working to expand our services to our communities and to you, our members. The committee on Disaster Response in our Latino Network/Latino(a) Concerns, fondly called LAT-NET, has been added to our efforts this year. They have assumed the charge of developing guidelines and competencies in responding to disasters affecting our Latino families. I have listed below Latino/a Concerns Goals and Committees, formed to address your needs as expressed at the 2010 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and our Needs Survey which some of you completed. I encourage you to contact me or any of our Sofrito Team members(i.e., committee chairs and volunteer members of LAT-NET) to join our efforts through serving in a committee, listed below. Not only will you be servicing the association but your colleagues and the Latino community. Under my Facebook page I have a link to LAT-NET. I encourage you to submit comments and discussion topics to this link. Video Interview Regarding the Earthquake in ChileThis conversation took place at the University of South Florida in Tampa on April 26, 2010 Our special gratitude goes to Dr. Edil Torres, for his contribution and unconditional support. Thank you also to Dr. Adelaida (Ada) Santana Pellicier, Dr. Maria Cooper, Dr. Patricia Arredondo, and to the Latino Network group of the American Counseling Association. 2010-11 Goals & Committees
COMMITTEES: The first person listed is the chair and responsible for coordinating the assigned tasks and reporting to the V-P for Latino/a Concerns. The Latino(a) Concerns Vice-President will serve as an ex-officio member in all committees.
SofritoSofrito, a mixture of vegetables and spices, is the foundation of our criolla cuisine. The LAT-NET’s core group of volunteers interested in pursuing special projects was established as the Sofrito Team by Maritza Gallardo-Cooper. This year our team has been G. Miguel Arciniega, Ph. D, Arizona State U.; Laura Alarcón, San Francisco State University; Patricia Arredondo, Ed. D., U. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; José Maldonado, Ph.D., Monmouth U.; Helda Montero, Ed.S., University of Florida; Ade Santana Pellicier, Ph.D. Northern Arizona U. Edil Torres-Rivera, Ph.D., University of Florida Grisobelle Virella-Carujo Universidad de Puerto Rico, and Carlos Zalaquett, Ph.D. University of South Florida. We welcome your joining us. Contributions to all our efforts as we address Latino concerns and to this newsletter are welcome. We would like to highlight our member’s efforts as well as keep LAT-NET members informed of AMCD Executive Council matters. La tierra no nos deja olvidar [reproducido con permiso del diario Centro Tampa] Los terremotos son uno de los desastres naturales que tienen el poder de cambiar radicalmente la vida de las personas.... Carlos P. Zalaquett, Ph.D.Congratulations & Felicitaciones to our hermano Edil Torres Rivera AMCD President Elect, Elect
“aqui todos trabajamos por lo mismo -- igualdad, justicia, y harmonia.” Edil, 20009 Felicitaciones, Edil. We look forward to a dynamic, productive and heart-felt administration. From your many admirers, supporters and your many hermanos academicos: Muy apreciado Edil saludos con mucha alegría al celebrar este reconocimiento a tu gran liderazgo y contribución al campo del multiculturalismo y lucha por una práctica más justa. También celebro la unión de estas organizaciones. Así podremos lograr mucho mas. Recibe un abrazo con mucho orgullo. Tus logros son nuestros logros. Paz, Esteban Congrats Edil!! I’ll give all the support I can to assist you in reorganizing AMCD, again!... Congrats again and everybody check out Edil’s fun photos from our Nicaraguan excursion on my Facebook page! Dana Aloha all, Michael For More information on Edil: http://www.coe.ufl.edu/Counselor/MeetingUs/Torres.php Dr. Maritza I. Gallardo-Cooper West Palm Beach, FL
Dr. Gallardo-Cooper is a Latina practitioner who has been practicing for over 20 years. She is passionate about her work and has presented at state and national conferences. Dr Gallardo-Cooper has extensive clinical experience with Latino populations and Latinos in training.She is co-author of Counseling Latinos and la familia: A Practical Guide, a publication of Sage. So reads part of a biographical sketch on her professional activities. As a Latina, I know that professional and personal spill into each other creating a richness in both worlds, and stress. Her colleague, Miguel calls her Minga, I call her Amor.Maritza exudes both and more: Maritza is friend; young of heart and spirit, willing to work hard and diligently, pregnant with hope and fortitude, stamina, resilience, initiative, possibilities; friendly, she waves her smile your direction and captivates, embraces, infects. She is laughter, commitment, intelligence, intuition. She is academic madrina:enlightening, coaching, mentoring, guiding, proving, motivating, socratizing. She is collaborator, writer, creator, developer, counselor, therapist, Psychologist. She gets things done, efficiently!!! Maritza is an approachable, down-to-earth scholar. Those of us-and we are many-know you for these attributes and for your personal commitment to all of us which you have demonstrated through the years. We have missed your leadership this year in ACA and AMCD as well as in many of your professional endeavors. Your absence has been felt and although not physically present, you have continued to offer me your counsel as I took over the VP for Latino Concerns. Your shoes have been difficult to fill but then, eres Única. Mamita, You are also mother, sister, daughter, wife. But it was time to be with tu familia, who needed you most. We’ve relied on you and it was time to let us fend better and rely on each other as a team. We love, respect, admire you as you served us. You are a model for all of us: you have been called to do as many of us have often been called to our personal side. As Latinas/os we know the importance of family. On behalf of our scholastic familia, we extend our gratitude y gracias and our deep-heartfelt sorrow for your loss of Papi, de corazón te enviamos nuestro pésame. Mamita Ade
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here to access a page with a brief video by Dr. Maritza-Gallardo. Dr. G. Miguel Ariciniega, Academic Padrino, & Academic Ahijada, Zoila Tovar-Blank
AMCD Presidents’ Reception, Hawaii, 2008 Dr. G. Miguel Arciniega is an Associate Professor in the Program of Counseling and Counseling Psychology at Arizona State University. He has authored over 35 articles and book chapters in state, national, and professional journals including a book on Parenting Models and Mexican Americans. His work focuses on cultural issues with multicultural populations and multicultural counseling. He has consulted and presented workshops throughout the country at professional conferences, mental health groups, and various educational and business sectors on diversity, multicultural counseling, and working with Latinos. He has served on several editorial boards of state and national journals, as well as serves on several state and local community boards. He has also served on several ACA Committees and belongs to several Divisions in ACA. He is former Vice President for the Association of Multicultural Counseling & Development (AMCD) Latino Concerns. Dr. Arciniega has received the College of Education Faculty Diversity Award, the Association of Multicultural Development Cesar Chavez Award, & Distinguished Professional for the National Latina/o Psychological Association. He teaches courses in Multicultural Counseling, Marriage & Family Therapy, Personality Theories, Counseling Latinos, Community Counseling, and Practicum. Click here to access a page with a brief video by Dr. Arcinieaga. Zoila Tovar-Blank is defending her dissertation this April 17th at Arizona State University. The title of her dissertation presentation is A Qualitative Investgation of Academic Persistence of Biracial College Undergraduates. We know that Zoila is ready because the date has been scheduled and because of Dr. Arciniega’s guidance. As her Academic Padrino, Dr. Arciniega has been proud and blessed to find such a creative, energetic, diligent, and knowledgeable researcher. My own experiences with her have been enlightening. Give her a task and she returns with a thorough and often better product more than expected! A picture of excelencia. She is creative and has proven to be a leader in her coordination of presentations and delivery of information. She exudes confidence and knowledge coupled with warmth persistence. She exemplifies an emerging leader and has published as well as presented in a multitude of multicultural issues. She is a collaborator in developing the Latino Counseling Competencies, a seminal contribution to Counseling Latinos. From my perspective, her relationship with advisor, mentor and padrino M. Arciniega, it has been a symbiotic and a model of academic padrino/ahijada relationship. The master has brought forth another master. Felicitaciones, Zoila. The Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center, is a nonpartisan, non-advocacy research organization based in Washington, D.C. and is funded by The Pew Charitable Trust. |
