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Rice Child and Family Center
The Rice Child + Family Center is focused on treating children with a goal of returning them to a loving family. The therapy services offered through the Rice Child + Family Center are round the clock and intensive. Highly trained therapists work with the children to correct negative behavior and reinforce positive social contact.
Mercedes Herrera, Psychology major at Loyola, interns at Rice working with the children there. For Mercedes, the experience has been very rewarding and eye opening as she has been able to see the struggles the children have endured and the resilience they possess. One of Mercedes’s favorite activities is helping put the children to bed and reading a book or playing a game with them before. She says the children “really treasure it because they don’t usually experience it.”
Mercedes plans on applying to Rice after graduation to continue “making a difference in children’s lives.” She says the children have “taught me more than I have taught them just because they have experienced so much… they know so much about the world society and the world around them, but it’s so negative. It’s important to change that.”
If you want to get involved in Rice’s mission to give children help, hope and opportunity and help build a better life for children, youth and families, check out their website.
