FACES at Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego
History
FACES-San Diego is imbedded in Hoover High School's Health and Healthier Communities Academy. This allows for a unique opportunity for FACES staff to easily team up with school teachers, counselors and staff enabling FACES and the school to really wrap around the FACES students' academic, behavioral and interpersonal progress. This past year, a component that FACES San Diego has focused on is bringing in the element of a community internship for each student as well as the hospital rotations. This allows students to practice their skills and gain knowledge in their own community, realize any existing disparities, hopefully fostering a desire to return to work within their community after they finish their education.
San Diego Team
Cheri Fidler
Director, Center for Healthier Communities
Cheri Fidler is the Director of the Center for Healthier Communities at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, her employer for almost 25 years. Ms. Fidler has extensive experience designing, initiating, managing and evaluating both large-scale community health programs and targeted health improvement initiatives. She has led the Center for Healthier Communities (CHC) to serve as the hub for the Hospital’s community health improvement strategies since 1996.
CHC and Ms. Fidler have been recognized locally, statewide and nationally for facilitating practical and successful community health outcomes and for mobilizing individuals, organizations and systems to combine forces to create healthier communities for children. Among other appointments, she serves as Health Domain Chair for the San Diego Childhood Obesity Initiative; was selected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to the Leadership Council of the Communities Putting Prevention to Work project; was appointed to the Child Advocacy Council for the National Association of Children’s Hospitals and Related Institutions; and received the Outstanding Community Partner Award from (San Diego) Community Health Improvement Partners.
David Bond
Manager, Youth Development Programs
David Bond, LCSW, RPT-S is the Manager for Youth Development Programs at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego. He is a licensed clinical social worker and joined the FACES for the Future – San Diego team after 8 years working as a child and adolescent psychotherapist and clinical supervisor. David attended the University of Southern California for undergraduate and graduate school, earning a Masters degree in Social Work, and B.A.s in International Relations and Psychology with a Minor in Spanish. In additional to his responsibilities at Rady Children’s Hospital, David maintains a small private practice where he specializes in young children and violent trauma.
Sheila Kubota
Student Services Coordinator
Sheila Kubota attended the University of California, San Diego and obtained her bachelor's degree in Communication. She then lived in Quito, Ecuador for 6 months, teaching English and immersing herself in the Spanish language and culture of Ecuador. There, she discovered that her true calling was in the field of social work and she came back to San Diego to attend San Diego State University where she completed her master's degree in Social Work. Sheila then worked for the County of San Diego's Child Protective Services as a Court Intervention Worker. Luckily, Sheila was able to join the FACES team as a Student Services Coordinator and has never been happier! Sheila absolutely loves applying her social work skills to the FACES program in her collaboration with the students, hospital clinicians, community partners and the greater FACES team across California. In working with FACES, Sheila has finally been able to say, "I love my job!"