AYA Research Team

❤️🖤💚Happy Juneteenth! Take a look into the history behind Juneteenth and why it’s celebrated today ➡️

🏳️‍🌈This Pride swipe to learn more about LBGTQ young people and mental health from The Trevor Project’s 2023 U.S. National Survey on the Mental Health of LGBTQ Young People.

🧠May is Mental Health Awareness Month!
➡️ Swipe to learn more about Black Mental Health and some resources!

Thank you Fatima 💐

👋🏾Are you above 18 years of age, a Black person in the United States, and identify as an immigrant (first generation) from a country in Africa or the Caribbean or were born to immigrant parents (second generation) who originally from a country in Africa or the Caribbean? Consider the Racial Socialization and African American Immigrants Study!
See the link in our bio to participate!
https://vcupsych.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6i02JLXmkAdAjwqQ_CHL=qr  

✈️AYA goes abroad!
Our team attended the inaugural SRCD Anti-Racist Developmental Science Summit in Panama City, Panama last week!
➡️Swipe to see Chandler, Broquelynn, Dr. Keyona Allen, and Dr. Shawn C. T. Jones in action!

🎉Congrats to our 2024 AYA Scholarship Recipent, Kennedie Simon! The goal of this scholarship is to provide mentorship for high school students who are interested in collegiate-level research while also increasing ethnic-racial diversity in post-secondary educational settings, and aiding in pipelining high school seniors to 4-year universities.

🎓Congrats to Dr. L. Blair Simmons on earning her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology last weekend!
Our second year student, Kenna Yadeta, also earned her M.S. in Counseling Psychology en route to completing her Ph.D. 🎉

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We are giving our flowers to our graduate students Chimmy, Broquelynn, Kenna, and Alexis for their respective Dissertation Defense, Dissertation Proposal, Master’s Thesis Defense, and Master’s Thesis Proposal! 💐💐💐💐

➡️Swipe to learn more about each one of our team member’s major milestone!!

May we present to you: The AYA Undergraduate Research Team Class of 2024 🎓💐

Thank you for celebrating UHRM with us this December!