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Gilberto Perez Jr.

Gilberto Perez Jr.

Bilingual therapist and founding director of Bienvenido 2010: I am working in Goshen, IN, at Bienvenido, a program for newly arrived Latino immigrants, and at. Northeastern Center, Inc., a community mental health center where I am a bilingual therapist. In the last years my activities have revolved around program development, offering resources for health and hope, as ...More

Earliest CJP Students Prize the ‘Lens’ They Acquired

December 30, 2010 – 6:09 pm

Who would come from half-way around the world to enroll in a program at Eastern Mennonite University that was so new, no college catalog listed it? Sam Gbaydee Doe did. From Liberia. Initially, the plump squirrels running around campus dismayed him: They could be food for very hungry people in his war-torn homeland. He himself ...More

Program director at mental health center, with focus on Latino mental health

December 30, 2010 – 1:39 pm

Gilberto Perez Jr. ’94, Grad. Cert. ’99 Goshen, Indiana As the founding director of Bienvenido, a program for newly arrived Latino immigrants, Gilberto Pérez Jr. tries to offer resources for health and hope, as well as education and livelihoods, for Latinos in Indiana’s schools, churches, juvenile correctional facilities, and communities. In this quest, Gilberto has ...More