{"id":13595,"date":"2025-04-18T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/?p=13595"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:35:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T13:35:27","slug":"child-life-advocate-earns-2025-cps-student-heroes-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/2025\/04\/18\/child-life-advocate-earns-2025-cps-student-heroes-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Child Life advocate earns 2025 CPS Student Heroes Award"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tessa Wheat, a family and consumer sciences student at UW-Stevens Point, turned her personal journey with the rare Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome into a passion for helping others as an advocate for children facing health challenges. As a leader in the Child Life Association of Stevens Point (CLASP), she has organized outreach efforts like teddy bear clinics and a care-a-thon to support families dealing with chronic illness. After completing a practicum and preparing for an internship at Marshfield Children\u2019s, Tessa is on her way to becoming a Certified Child Life Specialist and helping others with connective tissue and pain disorders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For her efforts, Tessa was presented the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwsp.edu\/cps\/college-of-professional-studies\/giving\/heroes-awards\/\">2025 College of Professional Studies Dick Cable and Judy Cable Anderson Student Heroes Award<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/mUo39vuE-IQ\">Watch her story<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2025 UWSP College of Professional Studies Student Heroes Award: Tessa Wheat\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mUo39vuE-IQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tessa Wheat, a family and consumer sciences student at UW-Stevens Point, turned her personal journey with the rare Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome into a passion for helping others as an advocate for children facing health challenges. As a leader in the Child Life Association of Stevens Point (CLASP), she has organized outreach efforts like teddy bear [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12,13,15],"tags":[560,305,342,343,344],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13595\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uwsp.edu\/cps\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}