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Dr. Deidre Franklin Jackson, Director of Counseling and Youth Development Dr. Franklin joined the HEAF family in September 2002. She began her career in psychology 15 years ago working with chronically mentally ill patients in psychiatric hospitals and inner city communities. Dr. Franklin has worked with high-risk teens in a high school health clinic and with children and families in community-based foster care programs. Since joining HEAF, Dr. Franklin has taken the lead in developing leading edge gender-specific programs for our youth. She has also helped to lead the integration of the Search Institute’s 40 Developmental Assets into all HEAF youth development programs as part of the organization’s participation as an Asset Lab with PASE and the YMCA. She received her B.A. from Howard University and holds an Ed.M. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Teachers College Columbia University. |
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