Video Presentations
Emily Fayram, Maggie May and RFP Team
Overview of the Resilient Families Program
A graphic explanation of the Resilient Families Program.
Grace Ma, Nicole Nasser and Morgan Carpenter
Family C.A.R.E. (Community, Art, Resiliency, Education)
We have developed a program to host once or twice a month next fall at Sacred Heart Community Center in San Jose where the whole family can gather and bond through art, through which they can express stressors facing the community,talk about healthy relationships, and practice mindfulness. We hope that by inviting both parents and children, this will create a safe space to strengthen familial relationships, foster healthy ways of communication and expression, and build community.
Gilly Dosovitsky, Marianna Moore, and Sarah Vaccaro
Community Assessment in Thriving Neighbors Initiative
The Thriving Neighbors team collected data from the residents of the Washington Neighborhood community in order to better understand the needs of the community. Our project focused on what the results were from the surveys and how best to get that information back out into the community.
Kimya Sabzbalouchibam, Alexa Casale, Alyssa Byerly, Anga Graczyk, and Kathleen Vogt
ReMoved: Understanding Foster Care
This video informs the general public about the impacts the foster care system can have on children and youth. We presented the film to promote advocacy for children in order to educate others about this important issue, as well as inform the public about ways they, as individuals, can make a difference. Next year we will expand our reach across other campuses!
Demi Khoury, Hannah Williams, and Cordelia Franklin
Promoting the Arts for Middle School Students
Lillian Nguyen, Marianna Moore, and Karen Robles
Haley Houser and Sydney Johnson
Promoting Safety
Alexsia Chitwood
Makinzi Myers, and Alexa Casale
Honesty Among Middle School Students
These videos foster the development of the Search Institute's Developmental Assets. Developmental Assets combat youth risk factors and are aimed to foster overall well-‐being. The videos will be uploaded on Santa Clara County's Project Cornerstone YMCA's website where children, teens, parents and community members can benefit from this resource.
Emma Ellis
Developing a Resilient Families Program for Children at Sunday Friends
A description of a program, structure and rationale, designed for preschool children focused on mindful awareness which will be implemented at SundayFriends in Fall 2016.
Bianca De La Piedra, Roberto Gil and Julie Vaccaro
Community Views of the Resilient Families Program
A video showing community responses to the Resilient Families Program at Sacred Heart Community Center.
POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Sonya Chalaka and Dr. Kirsten Read, Psychology Department
The Role of Rhyme in Language Learning
Among preschool-aged children, vocabulary growth is the bedrock of language learning, which serves as an excellent predictor of future academic success. Previous research has demonstrated that predictability enables more efficient word learning (Arnon & Clark, 2011; Read, 2014). Our study furthers this idea, determining whether rhyme can facilitate word predictability even without explicit knowledge of rhyme as a literary device. In a two-phase story game experiment, 2-to-5- year-old children were read short stories; children were placed into one of two story conditions. In both conditions, the final word in each story was missing and three pictures were presented as fillin-the-blank options for story completion. In the rhyming condition children heard, for example, Dan went for a jog, with his friend who is a…, and were presented with the picture choices (1) cat, (2) bird, or (3) dog. In the control or non-rhyming condition children heard, for example, Dan went for a run, with his friend who is a…, and were presented with the same picture choices. Children in the rhyming condition chose the correct picture significantly above chance, while children in the nonrhyme group chose the correct picture at chance level. These findings demonstrate that even without explicit knowledge of rhyme, preschool-age children can still use rhyme to anticipate familiar words in unfamiliar stories, which may improve children's retention of words from rhymes. In phase two, we attempted to explain this rhyme ability by measuring overall language ability with a vocabulary assessment and a pattern detection ability test. However, neither of these measures predicted performance on the story completion task, suggesting that the use of rhyme for language learning and retention is a unique skill available to preschool-aged children. This finding opens up an avenue of future research on the promising role of rhyme in language development.
Erin Furay and Dr. Kirsten Read, Psychology Department
The Benefits of Strategic Pauses in Storybook Reading with Young Children

Aishah Salihue
The Importance of Good Quality Secondary Education
This is a research paper about the importance of comprehensive and well established secondary education and the elements needed to create such a education system. This paper focuses on the following elements; increased financial stability, increased chance of success later in life, teach students important life skills (how to utilize resources, take initiative, work with others), provide stability at a time of great change in students' lives (latter half of teenage years), and personalized and integrative learning opportunities for students.
Chelsea Andon
Empowering Girls Through Education

Misja Ilcisin, Shelby Crespi, Elizabeth Sherwin, Julie Vaccaro, Saron Goitom, Maggie May and Barbara Burns
Serving Latino Families Affected by Trauma with Evidence-Based Community Interventions

Misja Ilcisin, Shelby Crespi, Elizabeth Sherwin, Julie Vaccaro, Saron Goitom, Maggie May and Barbara Burns
The Resilient Families Program: Promotoras

Shelby Crespi, Stephanie Dong, Emily Fayram, Misja Ilcicin, and Molly Schuller
The Resilient Families Program: Train the Trainer in Louisville, KY
From March 22 - 24th 2016, Dr. Burns and five members of the Resilient Families Program (RFP) team traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to provide a 3-day training on RFP for stakeholders in various community organizations. On the first day the RFP team gave background research on RFP’s theory of change and the RFP program. Additionally, the team helped identify shared goals with community partners. The second day was focused on the core components of RFP, the six RFP workshops, and the rationale for the Resilient Families games and mindfulness exercises. On the final day the team worked with attendees to successfully tailor the RFP program to their diverse community settings.\
Cordelia Franklin, Kathryn Franke, Stephanie Dong, Shawna Richardson and Molly Schuller
Commemorating The Resilient Families Program at Sacred Heart Community Service: A Mural

Emily Fayram, Cordelia Franklin, Kathryn Franke, Stephanie Dong, Shawna Richardson, Molly Schuller, and Barbara Burns
Traumatic Stress in Latino Preschool Children

Shawna Richardson, Molly Schuller, Cordelia Franklin, Katie Franke, and Stephanie Dong
Continuing the Habits of Resilience: Extending the RFP Curriculum
