By Justin Harmon
The Rev. Frederick J. “Jerry” Streets ’75 M.Div., who has taught pastoral theology at YDS since 1987, is used to a busy life. In addition to his work at YDS, Streets teaches two courses at the Columbia University School of Social Work one on spirituality and the practice of social work, the other on trauma while consulting with the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Columbia’s Teacher’s College. He lectures on religion, spirituality, and mental health through the Harvard Program in Refugee Trauma. And he serves as senior pastor of the Dixwell Avenue Congregational United Church of Christ in New Haven, which he himself attended and served as an intern while a student at YDS.
Bruni Pizarro, executive director of Junta for Progressive Action. Photos by Tony Fiorini.
The staff of Junta for Progressive Action
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By Karen Guzman
In March 2020, Bruni Pizarro watched from her office at New Haven’s Junta for Progressive Action as the world began locking down.
“Everything was unfolding in China, and then in Italy, and I knew it was just a matter of time until it was here,” says Pizarro, executive director of Junta, New Haven’s oldest Latinx-led social services agency, located in the Fair Haven neighborhood.
Pizarro, a 2019 graduate of the Yale School of the Environment, was new on the job and in the midst of working with the City of New Haven to resettle evacuees from recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. As the COVID-19 pandemic spread, Pizarro knew her organization had to pivot, and quickly.
June 15, 2021
The Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) announces the appointment of several faculty to new positions at the center, according to Jeanne Steiner, DO, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Director at CMHC.
Walter “Stan” Mathis, MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was appointed Medical Director of the ACT Team in 2020 and continues in the role of Associate Director of the Public Psychiatry Fellowship.
Dale Sebastian, MBBS, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was appointed Associate Director of the Public Psychiatry Fellowship.
Aniyizhai Annamalai, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, was appointed Deputy Medical Director for Medical Services.
John Cahill, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was appointed Deputy Medical Director for Clinical Informatics. Carmen Black (Parker), MD, Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, was appointed Medical Student Coordinator of CMHC and represents CMHC on the department’s Medical Student Education Committee.
UpdatedTue, May 11, 2021 at 9:07 am ET
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The Community Crisis Response Team program planned for New Haven, will be aimed at providing a more holistic approach to certain service calls that may not require police, the city noted. (Shutterstock)
NEW HAVEN, CT - The city formally announced its partnership with the Connecticut Mental Health Center to run the Community Crisis Response Team planning phase.
Announced last summer, the Crisis Response Team was created as a plan to better allocate city services when residents call during an emergency, according to a news release from the city.
Mayor Justin Elicker and Community Services Administrator, Dr. Mehul Dalal, and members from CMHC and the state Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services Commissioner Miriam Delphin-Rittmon made the announcement Monday.
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Four Yale alumni are among 76 graduate students who have been named 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University.
They are Mez Belo-Osagie ’16, a Ph.D. candidate in political science in Stanford’s School of Humanities and Sciences; Charlotte Finegold ’17, who is pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School; Tony Liu ’20, a Ph.D. student in bioengineering in the School of Engineering; and Elliot Setzer ’20, also pursuing a J.D. at Stanford Law School.
The Knight-Hennessy Scholars program cultivates and supports a multidisciplinary and multicultural community of graduate students and prepares them, through a diverse collection of educational experiences, to address complex challenges facing the world. Knight-Hennessy Scholars participate in the King Global Leadership Program and receive up to three years of financial support to pursue a graduate degree program in any of Stanford’s seven graduate schools.