Instituto Latino de Cuidado Pastoral, Inc (ILCP)
201 West 13th Street
New York, NY 10011
212-645-0826
CONSULTANT STAFF
REBECA M. RADILLO
The Reverend Dr. Rebeca M. Radillo is a United Methodist pastor, a psychotherapist
and a seminary professor. In addition to being the Founder and Executive
Director of the Instituto Latino de Cuidado Pastoral, Inc., Dr. Radillo is an
Associate Professor of Pastoral Care and Counseling at New York Theological Seminary. She has extensive
experience in pastoring churches, in the area of pastoral formation and pastoral
counseling, and has written one book entitled: Cuidado Pastoral, Contextual e
Intgral. She will complete the writing of another book in February 2009 entitled:
Cuidado Pastoral Con Inmigrantes.
BETTY S. PURKEY
Betty S. Purkey is a deaconess in the United Methodist Church. Retiring after
thirty-three years of service with the General Board of Global Ministries of The
United Methodist Church, she had two stints in the New York Office and spent the
remainder of her thirty-three years working as a Church And Community Worker
in rural areas of Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia. Immediately following her
retirement, she began working with the Instituto Latino de Cuidado Pastoral, Inc.
She serves as Program Coordinator for the Instituto, in addition to keeping the
office moving smoothly.
CONSULTANT STAFF TEAM
LUIS ALMEYDA
Luis Almeyda is the Project Coordinator of the Parents Education Project of the
Cornell University Cooperative Extension, New York City Program. He also serves
as Trainer/Consultant for the National Development Research Institute, the Latino
Commission on AIDS, and the Smithtown Parent Resource Center. He has
conducted workshops, training events and made presentations on HIV/AIDS at
several universities and colleges across the United States, in Mexico, Venezuela, and
El Salvador. Additionally, he has collaborated in a number of articles which have
been published related to HIV/AIDS.
FELIPE CORTES
Felipe Cortes is a pastor and psychotherapist. He was ordained as an elder in the
Presbyterian Church in Chile and was ordained as a Ministry Associate of Pastoral
Care in the Christian Reformed Church in New Jersey. He implements and
manages programs that give support to Hispanic churches in the New York/New
Jersey area in the pastoral care/counseling field. He also has had experience as the
manager of human resources in a bank and in private practice as a psychotherapist.
MIRIAM SHELTON
Miriam Shelton is a pastor, teacher, psychotherapist and a Ph.D student in
Developmental Psychology at City University of New York. She has worked as a
Community Nutritionist in Florida, as a Chaplain at University Hospital in
Louisville, Kentucky and at Emory University Hospitals in Atlanta, Georgia, and as
Coordinator of Pastoral Care Services at Barnard Hospital in Paterson, New Jersey.
Currently she is an Adjunct Instructor at LaGuardia Community College and
engaged in private practice as a psychotherapist in the area of individual, couple
and family therapy.
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