Our Timeline
Fall 2013
Mian Li Ong takes Clinical Assessment with Eric Youngstrom, Ph.D.
January 11, 2014
Mian Li Ong creates a Wikipedia account and makes his first edit. Mian creates “Team Wiki” as a lab project.
Fall 2015
Eric Youngstrom registers with Wiki Education Foundation and teaches his first class with Wikipedia editing as a course component.
Spring 2016
Mian Li and Breana Smith and Delaney Waggner (undergraduates) register HGAPS as a student service organization with UNC Student Life. HGAPS receives its first grant, from the Association for Psychological Science, and two more grants from the American Psychological Association and Society for Clinical Child Psychology.
Fall 2016
HGAPS grows to more than a dozen members at UNC
Spring 2017
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance partners with HGAPS and UNC to rebuild their online screening center (now used more than 35,000 times). HGAPS receives the Varda Shoham Clinical Scientist Training Initiative Grant. Sister chapters start at Appalachian State University, and projects at University of Miami and Yeshiva University.
October 2017
HGAPS incorporates as a charity in North Carolina, with undergraduates Logan Smith and Lizzie Wilson filing. HGAPS launches web site.
Spring 2018
The IRS recognizes HGAPS.org as a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit. Additional grants from Society for Clinical Psychology, and Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Coping with Community Violence pages launched in response to Parkland, FL, and Squirrel Hill, PA shootings.
Fall 2018
HGAPS grows to more than 50 active members. Works with US and North Carolina Red Cross and North Carolina Psychological Association on crisis response to Hurricane Florence and subsequent flooding.
Spring 2019
HGAPS receives a CODAPAR Grant from the American Psychological Association and the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Summer 2019
HGAPS launches expanded Assessment Center on EffectiveChildTherapy.org, with 70 tools programmed. UCLA chapter launched.
Fall 2019
UCLA chapter works on Coping with Wildfires; SCCAP provides continued grant support for the Assessment Center
Spring 2020
HGAPS exceeds more than 300 student members and alumni, building or editing more than 200 Wikipedia pages viewed more than 150 million times to date. Wikimedia Foundation recognizes HGAPS as an official User Group of the community.
Mian Li Ong takes Clinical Assessment with Eric Youngstrom, Ph.D.
January 11, 2014
Mian Li Ong creates a Wikipedia account and makes his first edit. Mian creates “Team Wiki” as a lab project.
Fall 2015
Eric Youngstrom registers with Wiki Education Foundation and teaches his first class with Wikipedia editing as a course component.
Spring 2016
Mian Li and Breana Smith and Delaney Waggner (undergraduates) register HGAPS as a student service organization with UNC Student Life. HGAPS receives its first grant, from the Association for Psychological Science, and two more grants from the American Psychological Association and Society for Clinical Child Psychology.
Fall 2016
HGAPS grows to more than a dozen members at UNC
Spring 2017
The Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance partners with HGAPS and UNC to rebuild their online screening center (now used more than 35,000 times). HGAPS receives the Varda Shoham Clinical Scientist Training Initiative Grant. Sister chapters start at Appalachian State University, and projects at University of Miami and Yeshiva University.
October 2017
HGAPS incorporates as a charity in North Carolina, with undergraduates Logan Smith and Lizzie Wilson filing. HGAPS launches web site.
Spring 2018
The IRS recognizes HGAPS.org as a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit. Additional grants from Society for Clinical Psychology, and Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. Coping with Community Violence pages launched in response to Parkland, FL, and Squirrel Hill, PA shootings.
Fall 2018
HGAPS grows to more than 50 active members. Works with US and North Carolina Red Cross and North Carolina Psychological Association on crisis response to Hurricane Florence and subsequent flooding.
Spring 2019
HGAPS receives a CODAPAR Grant from the American Psychological Association and the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Summer 2019
HGAPS launches expanded Assessment Center on EffectiveChildTherapy.org, with 70 tools programmed. UCLA chapter launched.
Fall 2019
UCLA chapter works on Coping with Wildfires; SCCAP provides continued grant support for the Assessment Center
Spring 2020
HGAPS exceeds more than 300 student members and alumni, building or editing more than 200 Wikipedia pages viewed more than 150 million times to date. Wikimedia Foundation recognizes HGAPS as an official User Group of the community.