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GWUMC NewsPRESS RELEASE: Dr. Olga Acosta Price Appointed Director of Center for Health and Health Care in Schoolsposted: October 5, 2009, 9:15 AM WASHINGTON – Dr. Olga Acosta Price has been appointed director of The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools (CHHCS), within The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services’ Department of Prevention and Community Health. She will succeed Julia Graham Lear, founder and director of the Center for the past eight years. Professor Lear will continue as a senior advisor to the Center. “Olga Acosta Price brings fresh energy and perspectives to the Center,” said Julia Graham Lear. “Her training and experience as a community-focused mental health professional broadens the capacity of the Center and will take us in new and productive directions.”
Dr. Acosta Price joined CHHCS in early 2006 and is associate research professor in the Department of Prevention and Community Health. She leads the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Caring Across Communities initiative that has developed creative new ways for building culturally-appropriate, school-connected mental health programs for immigrant and refugee youth.
“Children spend the majority of their day in the school environment where there is an opportunity to make sure that their needs, mentally and physically, are met,” said Wendy Yallowitz, program officer for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Dr. Acosta Price brings the knowledge, experience, and compassion to continue the success of the Center for Health and Health Care in Schools' in improving children's educational attainments and overall health.”
Dr. Acosta Price came from the D.C. Department of Mental Health where she launched the School Mental Health Program and nurtured its growth over six years. Dr. Acosta Price is a licensed clinical psychologist and graduate of SUNY-Buffalo and Vassar College. She has served as board member and volunteer with the D.C. Assembly on School Health Care and the Montgomery County Citizen's Review Panel for Children, and is the recipient of the 2009 Mental Health Association of DC Champion Award.
The Center for Health and Health Care in Schools is a nonpartisan resource center that builds on a 20-year commitment to achieve better health outcomes for children and adolescents through school-connected health programs and services. CHHCS’s Web site, www.healthinschools.org, provides up-to-date information for health professionals, educators and families to assist in promoting the health of children through school-connected programs. |
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