Badger Talks recently hosted a presentation featuring UW–Madison’s Alyssa Ramirez Stege, a clinical assistant professor with the School of Education’s Department of Counseling Psychology, where she leads the Esperanza graduate certificate program.
The presentation explores the development of Esperanza: Nuestra Cultura de Salud (“Hope, our culture of health”), a community-university partnership between Centro Hispano of Dane County and UW–Madison. Through a bilingual graduate training certificate, the program seeks to nurture and grow Latine community strengths to mitigate health disparities by increasing access to culturally- and linguistically-appropriate mental health services.
The presentation also features Evelyn Cruz, a lecturer with the Department of Counseling Psychology and the director of program planning and evaluation at Centro Hispano, who provides leadership for Esperanza: Nuestra Cultura de Salud.
To learn more about how the Esperanza program is helping to increase access to culturally appropriate mental health services, check out the full video.