Exciting Update to our B-PEACE Program
/Through a generous multi-year grant from the Commonwealth’s Executive Office of Economic Development’s Community Empowerment and Reinvestment Program SSYP is proud to welcome Cecile Romiette Auguste to our team leading our B-PEACE initiative. This program will focus on community based violence prevention for youth and young adults. Building on the success of the program’s work in gun-violence prevention, B-PEACE will leverage the work that SSYP does with our community to address the root causes of violence in our community through education, advocacy, and community engagement.
Meet Cecile Romiette Auguste
B-PEACE Program Manager
Cecile Romiette Auguste is a Physical Therapist from Haiti. After finishing high school in her hometown she was awarded a full excellence scholarship by the Taiwan Government. For the next 7 years she lived in Taipei and pursued her bachelor at the prestigious National Taiwan University and then she got her MBA in Healthcare Administration at Taipei Medical University. She was very involved in the Foreign student associations, advocating for her fellow students and organizing activities for them.in 2017 with diploma in hands, she returned to Haiti to give back to the society. She worked as a PT at the Institut Haitien de Rehabilitation and because she has a passion for education she was the PT program coordinator and also served as the vice dean of a PT faculty. She also taught healthcare Administration and physical therapy at two other schools. She moved to the US in 2020 and kept teaching Haitian students online. She is enrolled in an online transitional doctor of Physical Therapy. She is also licensed to practice in the United States as Physical Therapy Assistant.
In 2022 She was one of the awardees of the African Bridge Network Administrative fellowship program. She then worked at Boston Children Hospital as program coordinator of the Rehabilitation program. In 2023 she joined McLean Hospital ECT and Ketamine clinic as Administrative coordinator. During her times at Childrens she got her lean six sigma white and yellow belt certificates. One of her passion is to work as a volunteer in helping immigrant families adjusting to the United States. In february 2024, she gladly accepted the offer to serve as Program director at St Stephens. She will work with a team and with partners in various violence prevention projects and activities in the St Stephens community.
Cecile is a mother of three beautiful kids who keep her very busy and happy. She loves to do yoga, dancing, reading and hiking in her spare time. She is fluent in Haitian Creole, French, English and Mandarin Chinese.