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HSRS Grad Featured in the Connecticut Valley Spectator

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    rehabilitation
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  • emergency medical
        services
        management
  • occupational
        therapy
  • physician assistant
  • physical therapy
  • rehabilitation and
        disability studies

    		• Regina Kaufman, associate professor in the Physical Therapy Department, recently received a Doctor of Education degree in the Program in Educational Policy, Research, and Administration at the University of Massachusetts.

    Abby Breen, who received her master’s degree in Rehabilitation Counseling and Services from Springfield College in 2006, was featured in the Connecticut Valley Spectator. Breen is now working as a student assistance program counselor for the state-funded nonprofit Health Care and Rehabilitative Services of southeastern Vermont.

    Breen will be a drug and alcohol counselor at the middle school and high school level. Breen believes “effective education about substance abuse needs to be delivered to students before they are confronted with the tough choices about drinking and drugs that most of them must make during their elementary school years.”

    HCRS and Donald LaPlante, the new Hartford Superintendent, are looking into expanding grant funding to include Breen’s services in elementary schools for the future. Breen is also authorized to counsel students with substance abuse issues, intervene, and refer identified students to other agencies or institutions in the community. She will be able to run support groups, train school staff members to deal with troubled youth, and meet with the families of at-risk students.

    Breen’s interest in helping young people with substance abuse issues stems from her experiences growing up with similar issues. Though she never faced alcoholism or drug addiction herself, she experienced the impacts of those issues and believes her childhood prepared her to handle the issues students are facing today.

    Updated: 01/09/2007
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