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Walsh Counseling Students Bring Holiday Spirit to Incarcerated Youth
To visit with maximum security inmates at Multi-County Juvenile Attention System
North Canton, Ohio, December 13, 2005 - Graduate students in Walsh University's Counseling and Human Development program will be bringing some holiday cheer to incarcerated youth this season.
Sponsored by the Walsh University Alpha Mu chapter of Chi Sigma Iota, the International Counseling Honorary, the group of 10 graduate students will be hosting a holiday party on December 17th, for 24 youth in the maximum security facility at Multi-County Juvenile Attention System in Canton.
"We will be spending time with the youth, providing lunch and small gifts," said Louisa L. Foss-Pierce, Ph.D., PCC-S, NCC, Assistant Professor, Counseling and Human Development, and organizer of the event. "Our goal is two-fold: To provide a small gift of caring to the troubled teens while also helping our school and mental health counseling students better understand their needs."
The event, says Dr. Foss-Pierce, is consistent with the University's service learning mission, and is a great way to demonstrate care and concern.
"It is our hope that these teens may understand that there are caring adults who want them to have a better future. We are concerned about their lives and want them to know it."
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Dr. Holly Hartwig Moorhead to provide crisis intervention
North Canton, Ohio, October 13, 2005 - Walsh University Counseling and Human Development professor Dr. Holly Hartwig Moorhead will be traveling to the Gulf coast region as part of a Red Cross disaster mental health services team to provide counseling and support to hurricane victims in the area. |
 | As a disaster mental health volunteer, Moorhead, via the Canton local Red Cross chapter, will be deployed for a three-week stay to provide a number of services to displaced residents, including; crisis intervention, crisis reduction, debriefings, defusing, education and advocacy.
"All of us wish that this tragedy had never happened. But, it did and in the midst of overwhelming devastation, the good that can be found is people helping people in whatever way that they are able," said Dr. Moorhead. "It is an honor to be a part of the helping process; this is what being part of a community is really about, whether locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally." |
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