UT Dallas News Center
A senior at UT Dallas, Diana Rodríguez, is about to graduate and plans to work with Latino immigrant children – as she can relate to them. She was helped by the UT Dallas’ Academic Bridge Program, and worked at the Center for Children and Families, where she began providing agency referrals to families.
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With support from UT Dallas’ Academic Bridge Program, which helps high-potential, first-generation college students complete a college education, Rodríguez began her college career with a goal of earning a PhD and becoming a psychologist. But her plans took a different turn when she started volunteering and then working at the Center for Children and Families (CCF), part of the School of Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
She began by providing agency referrals for families served by CCF. Then she was asked to help with the center’s Juega Conmigo (Play With Me) program, which helps foster healthy parent-child relationships and lays a foundation for children’s social-emotional learning and school readiness.
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