{"id":6171,"date":"2019-01-02T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/?p=6171"},"modified":"2019-01-02T13:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T18:48:41","slug":"lin-piwowarczyk-wins-humanitarian-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/2019\/01\/02\/lin-piwowarczyk-wins-humanitarian-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin Piwowarczyk Wins Humanitarian Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" data-file-id=\"3065749\" height=\"203\" src=\"https:\/\/gallery.mailchimp.com\/7ca917ec195446e3aa8f6bcdc\/_compresseds\/a1c13347-ead5-4c83-8cd8-64733eefc61e.jpg\" width=\"310\" class=\"alignleft\" \/><br \/>\nThe 2018 Humanitarian Award was presented to Dr. Lin Piwowarczyk by the Open Avenues Foundation at the \u201cResponse to Migrant Family Separation Crisis Fundraiser\u201d on September 27, 2018 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for her twenty years of work providing mental health services to refugees and survivors of torture. Co-founder and Director of the Boston Center for Refugee Health &amp; Human Rights, Dr. Lin was recognized \u201cfor your unwavering commitment to welcome, support, and empower foreign nationals in the United States.\u201d Other awardees were recognized for their legal work (PAIR Project, Attorneys Harvey Kaplan and Howard Silverman) and provision of supportive housing (Dr. Ruth Bersin). Open Avenues is a newly formed non-profit with a mission \u201cto equip and empower immigrants with opportunities that enable them to reach their full potential and contribute to American society.\u201d\u00a0 Reuniting separated family is a necessary step in ensuring immigrants are able to reach their full potential, as the event highlighted.\u00a0 Dr\u00a0Lin gave an impassioned speech about BCRHHR\u2019s work, the Center\u2019s resilient clients, and the negative complications that separations have one clients\u2019 mental health.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The 2018 Humanitarian Award was presented to Dr. Lin Piwowarczyk by the Open Avenues Foundation at the \u201cResponse to Migrant Family Separation Crisis Fundraiser\u201d on September 27, 2018 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Boston for her twenty years of work providing mental health services to refugees and survivors of torture. Co-founder and Director of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6172,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6171\/revisions\/6172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/psychiatry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}