Counseling Psych's Dr. Chris Liang Partners with the Allentown Mentoring Enrichment Network
Jun. 2, 2015
Close to 10 on a Friday night, Chris Liang, associate professor of counseling psychology, stands before a group of black and Latino kids in a middle-school cafeteria in Allentown, Pennsylvania. “We believe in you,” he tells them. Liang, joined by two Lehigh graduate students, has come to lead a workshop for the Allentown Mentoring Enrichment Network (A.M.E.N.), a midnight basketball program that aims to help inner-city youth stay in school and off the streets, improve their academics and their futures. Liang’s involvement with the non-profit network is two-fold: to conduct research into its effectiveness and to provide the middle- and high-schoolers with strategies to succeed.
