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Check out our upcoming activities
American Educational Research Association - April 2026
Team members will be presenting at the AERA conference in L.A. Read more here.
Maribel and Dr. G will be presenting Padres Ayudando Padres: A Community-Based Parenting Support Group Built by and for Immigrant Mothers. Alejandra will be presenting Conceptualizations of Gifted Education Programming Among Families of English Learners.
CEHD Student Research Symposium - April 2026
The team will also be presenting at this conference - details to come!
2026 Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference
Team members shared implications for supporting students in a presentation at the annual graduate student conference entitled: Stronger Families, Stronger Students: Supporting academic achievement through a parenting support group. Learn more about the conference here.
Tohara Nakamatsu, M., Goodman, R. D., Salazar Salame, A., Jabbour Yammine, L., & Şensoy Murt, G. (2026, March 27). Stronger Families, Stronger Students: Supporting academic achievement through a parenting support group [Poster presentation]. Mason Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference, Fairfax, VA, United States.
VIRGINIA COUNSELORS ASSOCIATION 2025
On November 15th, 2025, the Community, Healing, Action Research, & Justice (CHARJ) team, led by Dr. Rachael Goodman, gathered in Norfolk, Virginia, for the annual Virginia Counselors Association conference. Pictured from left to right are Brenda Gonzalez, master’s student in counseling; Leonela Jabbour Yammine, student at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology; Chen Chen, master’s student in counseling; Alejandra Salazar Salame, MSEd, PhD student in education; Maribel Tohara Nakamatsu, MEd, PhD in education; Rachael D. Goodman, PhD, LPC, associate professor of counseling; Jennifer Aguilar, master’s student in counseling; Grace Harrell, master’s student in counseling; and Dorothy Li, master’s student in Counseling.
The team gave two presentations on a project developed in partnership with Amigas de la Comunidad, a community led organization that serves Central American immigrant families in the Arlington/Alexandria area. The team worked alongside immigrant mothers to design and facilitate pilot parenting and wellness support group sessions, named Padres Ayudando a Padres: Construyendo Familias Fuertes (Parents Helping Parents: Building Strong Families), that helped identify and address stress and challenges with parenting following the COVID 19 pandemic, as well as structural oppression and challenges navigating U.S. systems. This work has been part of a long-term community based participatory research action research collaborative that was started in 2014.
Our community-university partnership has provided support and conducted research since 2014.