{"id":30326,"date":"2026-06-12T09:53:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/?p=30326"},"modified":"2026-06-16T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T20:34:12","slug":"welcome-to-mpa-mrs-sarah-hong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/2026\/06\/12\/welcome-to-mpa-mrs-sarah-hong\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome To MPA, Mrs. Sarah Hong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30409 img-responsive alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nclhx5yj.tinifycdn.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Sarah-Hong-Photo-MPA-brighter-wp.png\" alt=\"Sarah Hong\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" \/>Welcome to MPA, Sarah Hong! Mrs. Hong will be joining MPA this fall as our Lower School counselor, and we are excited to introduce her to our community.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>From what school\/organization are you coming?<\/strong><br \/>\nI am from Anaheim Elementary School.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tell us about your education and past experience.<\/strong><br \/>\nI completed my undergraduate and graduate work in psychology. I hold a Marriage and Family Therapy license in California. I specialize in working with children and adolescents.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did you find appealing about MPA?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I love the tight community of MPA and the emphasis on working with the parents to better the school experience for children. MPA seems like a very special place to work and get to pour into.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>What lasting impact do you plan to have on MPA and its students?<br \/>\n<\/strong>I would love to help grow the counseling curriculum and work on pairing with teachers to better understand and support the kids at MPA. I hope to help MPA staff and the community better understand the importance of mental health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s your big dream?<\/strong><br \/>\nI\u2019d love to own a house and have kids someday!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are you passionate about?<\/strong><br \/>\nMy husband and I are both Christians, and we love showing people what kindness and love come with that. We are passionate about loving others and being kind to all people!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s a fun fact about you that our community would love to know?<\/strong><br \/>\nOver the last year, I\u2019ve become a huge reader!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to MPA, Sarah Hong! Mrs. Hong will be joining MPA this fall as our Lower School counselor, and we are excited to introduce her to our community.\u00a0 From what school\/organization are you coming? I am from Anaheim Elementary School. Tell us about your education and past experience. I completed my undergraduate and graduate work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":30408,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,10027,24,29,9,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-families","category-faculty-and-staff-experience","category-featured-posts","category-homepage","category-lower-school","category-my-mpa-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30326"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30411,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30326\/revisions\/30411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.moundsparkacademy.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}