• Congratulations to Paula Ueki who will be going on to a PhD program in Human Development and Quantitative Methodology at the University of Maryland, College Park, in Fall 2026!

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• Congratulations to Lyric Gonzalez who will be doing a summer internship in the Dissemination & Implementation (D&I) Science Summer Program with Lurie Children's Hospital at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

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• Congratulations to Ani Avedoumian and Megan Rust on the presentation of their poster, “Gender’s role on the interplay between perfectionism, parental overinvolvement, and youth depressive symptoms” at the Chicago Area Undergraduate Research Symposium in Chicago, IL!

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• Congratulations to Lucy Hermann, Clare Doyle, Ashley Serna, and Evelyn Andrade on the presentation of their poster, “Youth anxiety, depression, and cognitive errors before and after the COVID-19 epidemic” at the annual conference of the Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) in Chicago, IL!

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• Welcome to Maria Jose Gonzalez, a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology Child Track MA/PhD program, who joined the lab in Fall 2025!

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• Congratulations to Dr. Laura Saldana, who is doing a post-doctoral fellowship in pediatric anxiety at Children's National Hospital in Washington, DC! 

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• Congratulations to Paulina Paredes Cienega who secured a post-doctoral position at Children's Hospital of Orange County in the Primary Integrated Care unit! She is scheduled to complete her internship and dissertation later this year.

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• Congratulations to Melissa Lopez who will be doing her externship at the University of Illinois Chicago starting Fall 2026! She will be in a combined placement, working in the Pediatric Mood Disorders Clinic and the Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders Clinic.

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• Congratulations to Elizabeth Martinez-Charleston who will be a Clinical Psychology Intern at the University of Chicago Medicine Child/Pediatric Psychology program starting Fall 2026!

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• Our collaboration with the Office of Social and Emotional Learning in Chicago Public Schools continues into its 9th year. We have trained 565 school-based providers (social workers, counselors, and psychologists) and graduate student interns across 225 schools. They were trained in Act & Adapt, a coping skills program to help youth combat stress and improve their mental health, including reducing their depression symptoms. Within these schools, there has been 690 Act & Adapt groups made up of over 3,800 students enrolled in the program throughout the last 9 years. For more information about this intervention and our partnerships, please go to www.actanadapt.com. 

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• Congratulations to our 3rd year cohort of STRIDE Scholars. We are supporting the training of 33 interns from school/clinical mental health counseling and school social work programs from across 6 Chicago-area universities serving high need schools in Chicago Public School District schools.

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