Ms. Tejal Parekh, MSW as the Assistant Director, supports overseeing the Educational Opportunity Fund program with her EOF Director. Ms.Tejal also manages her cohort of scholars as their EOF Counselor, in the majors of STEM, Medical Science Pre-Professional, Nursing, Radiography, and Medical Assisting. Ms. Tejal also meets with families and community members to highlight the advantages of attending Hudson County Community College and participating in the EOF program. Ms. Tejal, is also an alumni from HCCC and the EOF Program. She currently holds her Master's in Social Work, (MSW) from Rutgers University. Previous to working in higher education, she worked in the child welfare/foster care system for seven years between the Administration for Children Services in NYC and Office of Refugees and Resettlement. Ms. Tejal previously worked as a Clinician with the Office of Refugees and Resettlement short-term and long-term foster care program with unaccompanied minors who migrated from Central and South America to the United States due to fleeing their countries of origin. As a Clinician she provided psycho-therapy to unaccompanied minors to support them in the process of transition to the united states reunification with their parents/families in the U.S