Infant/Young Child Mental Health & Home Visiting Summit
 
0NC Infant and Young Child Mental Health Association
NCIMHA is a statewide organization dedicated specifically to the healthy emotional, cognitive, and social development of children prenatal to five years old. Our vision is that every infant, toddler, and young child in North Carolina grows up within nurturing relationships, positive experiences and supportive environments. This strong foundation provides the basis for emotional, cognitive, and social capacities necessary for healthy future development. Our membership is comprised of professionals from all disciplines that work with children and families as well as parents, caregivers, and other individuals who support early childhood social-emotional health. Our goal is to instill the principles of infant and young child mental health in all services for young children and their families, as well as for expectant parents. We advocate education, coordination, and collaboration across organizational and professional disciplines to benefit society well beyond the early childhood investment.
 
0North Carolina Home Visiting Consortium
The Consortium is a network of perinatal and early childhood home visitation programs. We work to support North Carolina’s perinatal and early childhood home visitation programs by encouraging collaboration at the local and state levels, sharing training and educational resources, researching best practice standards, supporting enhanced referral systems between programs, conducting research and collecting data on home visiting outcomes, and advancing equitable systems and policies that recognize, promote, and enhance the value of perinatal and early childhood home visitation services in the state, and reduce racial and ethnic disparities.
 
0Audilia Reynoso Juarez
Audilia Reynoso Juarez was born in rural Guatemala and has made her home in the Asheville area for over 15 years now. Audi is the mother of sons, ages 14 and 10, and she’s a certified Circle of Security Facilitator. In addition to teaching Spanish classes and running her own cleaning business, Audi teaches COS-Parenting in Spanish to men and women in the WNC immigrant community through the nonprofit FIRST. She says, “Circle of Security gives me the tools and knowledge to parent differently than how I was raised, and it’s really changed how my husband shows up with our kids too. I love it.”
 
Dr. LuzDalia Sanchez
Founder
Astounding Families Alliance
Dr. LuzDalia Sanchez MD, Ph.D. has been working with diverse families with young children for over 30 years. She has multiple awards including the Outstanding Efforts for Community Services (American Lung Association. Award recipient in 2011, Phoenix, AZ) , Championship for Young Children (First Things First, Award Recipient 2012, Phoenix AZ), and Outstanding Effort in Community Outreach (American Diabetes Association. Diabetes Expo Cultural Diversity Planning Committee member 2007. Award recipient in 2007). Dr. Sanchez is a board member of the Family Life Coaching Association (FLCA) and chair of the Research Committee. When Dr. Sanchez finished her MD degree she led interdisciplinary home visitation programs pioneering the strategy to implement promotion of health and prevention of diseases in an under-served community. The home visitation program supported families and children five years of age and younger who suffered from abuse. Dr. Sanchez has developed intervention-teaching strategies for improving all families’ members' wellbeing. Dr. Sanchez has been an advocate of improving learning environments for young children, especially at their homes. Dr. Sanchez implemented the Latino Home Visitation program at Minneapolis Public Schools, Early Childhood Family Education Program. She believes that early childhood prevention programs impact children’s social-emotional and cognitive functioning and growth. Educating parents in different settings including their home is pivotal to provide tools and share knowledge in how to support children’s brain development and family wellness that endure through children’s life. Educating parents improve children’s skills in all the domains to succeed in life. Home visitation professionals are fundamental professionals in the family and children's life success. Dr. Sanchez holds a Community Psychology master’s degree, Parent Coaching, and Family and Parent educator certificates. Dr. Sanchez is the founder of Astounding Families Alliance, an organization that promotes parent education for diverse families, home visitation, and continuing education for early childhood teachers.
 
Mandy Ableidinger
Policy and Practice Leader
North Carolina Early Childhood Foundation
Mandy serves as NCECF’s Policy and Practice Leader. She leads the Pathways to Grade-Level Reading Initiative and supports state and local early learning coordination. She curates an online Birth‐to‐Eight Policy Center and communicates the impact of state and federal policy on NC’s young children and their families. Mandy has 15 years of experience in the nonprofit and public sectors, focused on children’s issues. She holds degrees from Duke and Princeton.
 
America Allen
Licensed Clinical Social Worker
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work
America Allen, MSW, LCSW , a Charlotte native, obtained her BA in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Master’s in Social Work at North Carolina Central University. As a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, America is trauma trained and utilizes systems work in direct practice to support families with children exhibiting challenging behaviors. She has extensive experience using Parent-Child Relationship models in early childhood mental health treatment and adolescences in a variety of settings providing therapy, behavioral consultation and crisis stabilization. America is passionate about mitigating and examining the impacts of Adverse Childhood Experiences through a racial equity lens. America brings a fresh voice and passion to her work.
 
Dr. Kim Allen
Associate Professor and Director
Graduate Programs in Youth, Family, and Community Sciences at North Carolina State University
Kimberly Allen, Ph.D., BCC, CFLE is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Programs in Youth, Family, and Community Sciences at North Carolina State University. Dr. Allen has coached and educated hundreds of families and has research expertise in parenting, family life coaching, teaching with technology, and relationship education. Dr. Allen is the author of the book Theory, Research, and Practical Guidelines for Family Life Coaching.
 
Dr. Harriette Bailey
Assistant Professor, B-K Coordinator, Principle Investigator, and Co-Principle Investigator
UNC Greensboro
Dr. Harriette Bailey is an Assistant Professor, B-K Coordinator, Principle Investigator, and Co-Principle Investigator at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. Dr. Bailey has extensive experiences in higher education, early intervention, early care and education, and child and family outcomes. She is passionate about preparing students to deliver effective and equitable services for diverse children and families. Dr. Bailey’s research interests include: appropriate services for infants and toddlers, cultural competency, family engagement, and designing effective policies and supports for young children and families. She is a member of North Carolina’s State Interagency Coordinating Council, a Governor appointed position.
 
Ennis Baker
Clinical Social Worker
Board Member of the North Carolina Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Association
Ennis C. Baker, MSW, LCSW is a licensed clinical social worker specializing in early childhood mental health who has worked in a variety of roles serving at-risk children ages birth to 5 and their families. She has worked in North Carolina since 1992 serving as a home visitor, program director and as a social worker on a multidisciplinary team responsible for determining eligibility for early intervention services for children under 5. From 1999 - 2018, she served as an administrator and mental health specialist for Orange County Head Start/Early Head Start in Chapel Hill, NC. In this role, she consulted with program staff and families around issues of toxic stress, child abuse & neglect, parenting, preventing and managing children’s challenging behavior, adult & child mental health and strengthening families by promoting protective factors. She is an experienced trainer on topics such as engaging families, identifying needs and accessing services for children under 5, motivational interviewing, child development, parenting education, early childhood mental health, managing EHS/Child Care Partnerships and home visiting. She co-leads the Orange/Chatham Early Childhood Task Force and the Orange RESILIENCE Initiative (ORI) and is a Board Member of the North Carolina Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Association. She is the mother of a 15 year-old daughter and two sons who are UNC Asheville graduates and the wife of a Durham Public Schools Kindergarten teacher.
 
Debra Best
Medical Director
Family Connects International
Debra Best is the Medical Director for Family Connects International (FCI) and Family Connects Durham. In this role for FCI, she provides core program oversight particularly as it pertains to nurse training and education, informs program expansion and dissemination, and contributes to innovation, research and policy efforts. For the past 15 years, Best has been a practicing primary care pediatrician with Duke Children’s Primary Care before transitioning into her roles with Family Connects International. She continues to see patients with the Duke University pediatric residents. She is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Community & Family Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine and provides oversight for the pediatric resident community and advocacy rotation. She is deeply involved in advocacy efforts focusing on early childhood in the community of Durham and statewide in North Carolina. She serves as the Director of Advocacy & Community Engagement for the Department of Pediatrics and Vice Chair of Advocacy for the Division of Primary Care. Additionally, she is the state lead for North Carolina for the Carolinas Collaborative, a multistate advocacy collaborative comprised of faculty leaders from all 8 pediatric institutions in North and South Carolina. Her work with the Carolinas Collaborative has focused on deepening clinic-community partnerships to extend the reach of the medical home to ameliorate the effects of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress. She is passionate about pursuing innovative multisector strategies to ensure that all children have the ability to thrive.
 
Diane Britz
North Carolina Regional Clinical Director
Child First
Diane Britz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the North Carolina Regional Clinical Director for Child First. Diane is responsible for the clinical consultation, training, and quality enhancement for the Child First affiliate sites in the State of North Carolina. Diane has experience working in home visiting programs with special populations including infants and young children, foster care/adoption, and children with special health care needs.
 
Ronda Taylor Bullock
Executive Director
We-are
Ronda Taylor Bullock is originally from Goldston, NC. In 2018, she earned her doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill in the Policy, Leadership, and School Improvement Program. Her research interests are critical race theory, whiteness studies, white children’s racial identity construction, and anti-racism. Prior to entering her doctoral program, Dr. Taylor Bullock taught English for almost ten years at Hillside High School in Durham, NC, where she now resides. Dr. Taylor Bullock is the co-founder and Executive Director of we are, which stands for working to extend anti-racist education. As a non-profit, we are works to equip children, parents, and educators with the knowledge and skills necessary to understand the complexity of racism. we are uses a three-pronged approach to dismantle systemic racism in education by offering summer camps for children in rising 1st-5th grade, workshops for parents, and professional development for educators. Dr. Taylor Bullock is the wife of Dr. Daniel Kelvin Bullock and mother of son Zion and daughter Zaire.
 
Dr. Karen Appleyard Carmody
Director of Early Childhood Prevention Programs
Duke Center for Child and Family Health
Karen Appleyard Carmody, Ph.D., is Director of Early Childhood Prevention Programs at the Center for Child & Family Health and Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Medicine. She has significant experience providing early childhood assessment and treatment, and is a provisionally-certified ZTT DC:0-5 trainer. Her research interests focus on infant mental health, child-parent attachment, early childhood trauma, and evidence-based practices to address these issues.
 
Michelle Chapin
Ready/Ready
Project Manager
Michelle Chapin joined Ready/Ready as a project manager in May 2017. In her role, Michelle is responsible for the Continuous Quality Improvement initiative - a capacity-building initiative to enhance quality through the use of data in programmatic decision making. She works closely with community partners, funders, and volunteers to maintain a full understanding of the current landscape of local and regional activities that intersect with the work of Ready/Ready. Prior to joining Ready Ready Michelle served as an assistant to the Mayor of Orange County, FL, in supporting the county's strategies for addressing homelessness through its social service grants. Michelle holds a Graduate Certificate from the University of Technology, Sydney and BA from Florida State University.
 
0Cheri Coleman
Family Support Worker and Clinical Supervisor-Healthy Families Durham
Duke Center for Child and Family Health
Cheri Coleman is a Family Support Worker and Clinical Supervisor with the Healthy Families Durham program at the Center for Child and Family Health. As a home visitor, Ms. Coleman utilizes the Parents as Teachers and Healthy Families America models in her work with families of young children.
 
Sharon Cooper
Interim Executive Director
Martin-Pitt Partnership for Children
Sharon Cooper is the Interim Executive Director for the Martin-Pitt Partnership for Children. Prior to being selected as Interim Executive Director, she served as the supervisor for the Parents As Teachers program as well as the Site Supervisor for the Martin County office. Sharon has been with the Partnership for over 18 years, with 13 of those years spent as a Parent Educator. Sharon holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Fayetteville State University, a Master’s in Human Services Counseling with a focus in Marriage and Family from Liberty University, and a Master’s in Health Services Administration from Strayer University.
 
0Keima Davis
Keima Davis brings over 10 years of experience serving youth and families in the non-profit sector in Charlotte, NC. Keima received a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Winston-Salem State University and a Graduate Certificate in Family Life Education and Coaching from North Carolina State University. A certified trainer through International Institute for Restorative Practice, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Motivational Interviewing certified, and a Check and Connect Mentor she remains a lifelong learner-driven to provide innovative interventions for students and their families. A native Charlottean Keima’s passion for her hometown motivates her to create opportunities for access and equity for all families. While working at a Charlotte-Mecklenburg High School she discovered the transformation that occurs when you connect trauma-informed education and parent engagement. Keima understands the vital role parents play in the lives of children and the difference in academic achievement when parents become partners. She has facilitated parent engagement training for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, parenting groups along with local and state-level non-profits.
 
Jennifer Decker
Director
Chatham Child Development Center (CCDC)
Jennifer Decker is the Director at Chatham Child Development Center (CCDC) in Siler City. CCDC is a 5-star Developmental Day Center serving children ages 6 weeks-5 years old. Prior to becoming a director, she was the lead teacher in a 2-3-year-old classroom at CCDC for almost 10 years.
 
Dale Epstein
Deputy Program Area Director
Child Trends
Dale Epstein, Ph.D., is a Deputy Program Area Director in the Early Childhood Development research area at Child Trends. Dr. Epstein has over 12 years of experience in early childhood research, policy and evaluation. She focuses on the intersection of research and policy and the role that state and national public policies play in the lives of young children and their families. Her research interests include early childhood policy issues, data system building and analyses, and evaluation of early childhood initiatives. Dr. Epstein is the Principal Investigator for SHINE, a project focused on integrating home visiting data with early childhood integrated data systems, and works with the Early Childhood Data Collaborative providing technical assistance support to states around implementation strategies and approaches to linking early care and education data. Dr. Epstein provides support to the National Collaborative for Infants and Toddlers, funded by the Pritzker Children’s Initiative, to support communities in measuring infant and toddler well-being. She is currently leading and working on projects focused on the early care and education workforce, quality rating and improvement systems, and coaching in early childhood settings.
 
Dr. Michael Gaffrey
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University
Michael S. Gaffrey, Ph.D. is an assistant professor in the Department of Psychology & Neuroscience at Duke University and a member of the Academy of ZERO TO THREE Fellows. He also directs Duke’s Early Experience and the Developing Brain (DEED) Lab, an interdisciplinary team bringing together diverse perspectives and shared values in order to better understand how to care for our youngest and most vulnerable children. Research within the DEED Lab actively uses the tools of developmental neuroscience to better understand how preventive intervention programs targeting infants at risk for negative socioemotional outcomes, including depression and autism spectrum disorder, can be used more effectively. Through the integration of practice-based knowledge and innovative research, Dr. Gaffrey hopes to reduce the impact of risk factors that contribute to unfavorable health outcomes for vulnerable infants and families.
 
Rachel Galanter
Executive Director
Exchange Family Center
Rachel Galanter (MPH, Maternal and Child Health from UNC-CH and Bachelors in Psychology from Columbia University), is Exchange Family Center’s Executive Director. A NC Parenting Education Network certified Parenting Educator, she has over 25 years of experience with children, youth, and families. She uses the Community Resilience Model, anger management and bio-feedback to help families and community members address the stress and emotional issues that can be barriers to making change. She employs proven models—Attachment Bio-Behavioral Catch Up, SafeCare, Language Is the Key, Triple P and Parent Child Interaction Therapy—to help families transform and to improve relationships between caregivers and children. A member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers, she provides training and coaching to professionals on parent engagement, coaching, and cultural awareness to help other agencies engage clients who need support but are ambivalent about making change. In addition to her local efforts, she is a sought-after speaker for national conferences including: the National Birth to Three Institute, the National Head Start Association Parent Engagement Institute, the National Exchange Clubs Symposium, and to her peers at the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers Forum. Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina awarded her the Donna J Stone award in 2013 for going above and beyond to support families in their efforts to provide their children with the safe, stable, nurturing environments they need if they are going to be successful. In additional to her professional work on behalf of families, Rachel was a foster parent for a decade and added two daughters (and now four grandchildren) to her family from that time.
 
Heather Gann
Senior Consultant
Public Consulting Group
Heather Gann, a Senior Consultant, brings over 15 years of experience across the field of early childhood education. Mrs. Gann has a deep understanding of best practices in professional development, training needs, continuing quality improvement processes, and has supported multiple state systems, including Ohio, Michigan, Connecticut, Tennessee, and Indiana, to name a few, in the design and delivery of state-wide training and technical assistance programs. Mrs. Gann is a practiced trainer and facilitator, incorporating the theory of adult learning and the science of implementation into the design and delivery of all her work. Prior to joining PCG, Mrs. Gann served as Vice President of Operations for Tennessee’s largest early intervention and early education program. Under her leadership, the early intervention program transformed service delivery to adopt evidence-based principles of service provision, routines-based intervention, and the early education program achieved national accreditation through the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). Mrs. Gann holds a MA. Ed. in Education Administration and received her B.S. in Early Childhood Special Education.
 
Michelle Gentry
Parenting Coordinator
Wilson County DSS
Michelle is the Parenting Coordinator at Wilson County DSS where she provides individual parent education and coordinates the Strengthening Families Program. Prior to working at Wilson County DSS, Michelle served families through the Intensive Family Preservation Program and was an adjunct professor at Wayne Community College. She has a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology and is a certified ABC-Infant Parent Coach.
 
Dina Gerber
Social Worker
Center for Child and Family Health
Dina Gerber, MS in Child Development, LCSW, has worked with children and families in North Carolina in a myriad of settings as a social worker since 2008. Ms. Gerber improves trauma-informed care in the NC child welfare system by training others in the NCTSN Resource Parent Curriculum (RPC), Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC), and the Trauma Informed Leadership Training (TILT).
 
Krysta Gougler-Reeves
North Carolina Manager for Policy & Engagement
Family Connects International
Krysta Gougler-Reeves is the North Carolina Manager for Policy & Engagement for Family Connects International. In this role, she leads policy engagement and analysis for North Carolina communities and serves as a resource for technical assistance on early childhood policy related to early intervention and home visiting programs. Gougler-Reeves joined the Center for Child and Family Policy in February 2017 to provide technical assistance to sites implementing the Family Connects model in their communities. Gougler-Reeves has an interest in maternal and child health and previously worked as a program coordinator for a nonprofit supporting individuals with developmental disabilities; tutored teens during a four-month internship in Freetown, Sierra Leone; and conducted marketing and event planning for a domestic violence agency. While originally from Ohio, she made Durham home in 2010.
 
Dr. Janice Gruendel
Research Professor
UNC Charlotte
Dr. Janice M. Gruendel has over 30 years of applied social science experience, crafting state and local policy and practice with data analytics for the early childhood through young adult years. She and her husband, retired Appellate Court Judge Herb Gruendel, reside in North Carolina and Connecticut. Their three sons and six grandchildren live in Connecticut, Virginia and Charlotte. She is a research professor at UNC Charlotte in the Academy for Research in Community Health, Engagement and Services (ARCHES), a fellow at the Zigler Center at Yale University, and a senior fellow at the Institute for Child Success in (Greenville, SC) working with Pickens County SC. These efforts are focused on advancing a prenatal to age three (or four) wellness agenda called What About the Babies? In Charlotte, ARCHES in partnership with the University-City Family Zone will launch the baby bundle design later this fall as a proof of concept site. Gruendel is also a member of the KidsReadyNC Team providing technical assistance to four rural counties in North Carolina: Randolph, Rockingham, Catawba and Chowan. This work is hosted by the Institute for Emerging Issues at NC State University. Gruendel is currently co-chair of the Charlotte Resilience Project’s Early Childhood Subcommittee, and she is working with CMS to support the work of is Office of Student Wellness and Academic Success. She has facilitated Resilience screenings as well as social service and education professional development on trauma-informed, resilience-focused practice in Connecticut, North and South Carolina, and on two-gen policy and practice in Eagle County, Colorado. Gruendel also served for several years as an early childhood subject matter expert for the Public Consulting Group. For 16 years, Gruendel worked in Connecticut state government as a senior executive in child welfare, public health, developmental disabilities, and corrections. She also served as Senior Early Childhood Policy Advisor to former Governor M. Jodi Rell for the period 2004-2009. During this period, she co-chaired the Early Education Cabinet which produced the state’s first ever early childhood framework (prenatal through 3rd grade) entitled Ready by Five, Fine by Nine. She also served on the Governor’s Early Childhood Research and Policy Council which created the first five-year early childhood investment plan.
 
Alexa Hamel
Community Response Program Social Worker
Orange County DSS
Alexa Hamel is the Community Response Program Social Worker with Orange County Department of Social Services. Alexa provides family support services for families with young children who have been referred to Child Protective Services. Alexa is an accredited Triple P practitioner and rostered in ABC. Alexa has prior work experience as a Foster Care Social Worker, Child Mental Health Case Manager, and Pre-K Teacher prior to joining Orange County DSS.
 
Gayle Headen
Executive Director
Wake County Smart Start
Gayle E. Headen Executive Director Wake County Smart Start Gayle Headen has been Executive Director for almost a year, coming to the partnership after 15 years with Head Start. Gayle brings a unique blend of corporate and nonprofit leadership experience with her. She honed her financial management and analytical skills as well as established and implemented visionary business strategies during her corporate career at Procter & Gamble. Then, after “finding her passion” in early childhood education, she entered her nonprofit career as only the third Executive Director in the 50+ year history of Union Baptist-Harvey Johnson Head Start in Baltimore, Maryland. While there, she gained meaningful experience in community health, health disparities research, and social determinants of health. At Union Baptist-Harvey Johnson Head Start, Gayle convened the organization’s community-wide, multi-disciplinary strategic planning symposium and guided the program, via the plan, to achieve a Level 5 certification—the only such designated Head Start program in the city of Baltimore. She believes in the strength of families and sees the community as a resource for these families. Gayle holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Howard University, has earned her Maryland Child Day Care Certification, received a Weinberg Fellowship, and is a UCLA Head Start Management Fellow.
 
Evette Horton
Director of Child Clinical Services
UNC Horizons
Evette Horton, Ph.D., NCC, LPCS, RPT-S, is a Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Medicine. She is the Director of Child Clinical Services at the UNC Horizons program, a substance abuse treatment program for pregnant or parenting women with substance use disorders and their children. She’s currently President of the Association for Child and Adolescent Counseling (ACAC). She serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Child and Adolescent Counseling. She is also a founding board member of the North Carolina Infant Mental Health Association (NCIMHA).
 
Michelle Hughes
Executive Director
NC Child
Michelle serves as Executive Director of NC Child. She has worked in the field of children’s advocacy for almost 20 years in North Carolina in a number of executive and leadership positions including Project Director of the Partnering for Excellence Initiative at Benchmarks, Executive Vice-President for Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina, and Public Action Director at the NC Child Advocacy Institute, the organizational predecessor to NC Child. Michelle’s leadership and advocacy for children has been recognized both nationally and in North Carolina. She holds degrees from Loyola College in Baltimore and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Michelle has worked in the field of children’s advocacy for almost 20 years in North Carolina. She has served in a number of executive and leadership positions including Project Director of the Partnering for Excellence Initiative at Benchmarks, Executive Vice-President for Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina, and Public Action Director at the NC Child Advocacy Institute, the organizational predecessor to NC Child. Michelle’s leadership and advocacy for children has been recognized both nationally and in North Carolina. She is the 2012 recipient of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Children, Youth and Families Commissioner’s Award and the 2012 North Carolina Pediatric Society, Tom Vitaglione Child Health Advocacy Award. A graduate of Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland, Michelle holds Master’s degrees in English and Social Work from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
 
Anne Isaac
CDSA of Western NC
Anne Isaac, MS, LCSW, has provided home-based infant mental health services for families of children with special needs in North Carolina’s far western rural counties since 2016. She previously served children and families experiencing trauma through various roles in hospitals and community mental health settings in Columbia, South Carolina and Chicago, Illinois
 
Walter Johnson
Fatherhood Educator and Professional Trainer NCPEN Credentialed Educator
Children’s Home Society of NC
Walter Johnson is a Fatherhood Educator and Professional Trainer for Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. He has specialized in working with fathers for over twelve years, offering fatherhood programs in settings as varied as prisons, social service agencies, and churches. Walter is passionate about using education as a tool to improve father engagement. He is a North Carolina Certified Parent Educator, with experience as a certified 24/7 Dad Train-the-Trainer through the National Fatherhood Initiative, the largest provider of fatherhood resources and training in the nation. He is also an accredited provider for Triple P Positive Parenting Program. Before working as a Fatherhood Educator, Walter served as Lead Counselor and Coordinator for Creative Development for Elon Homes for Children. Walter graduated from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, is a husband and father of three children, and currently resides in Greensboro.
 
Christina Jolly
Parent Educator and Circle of Parents Facilitator
Children’s Home Society of North Carolina
Christina Jolly is a Parent Educator with Children’s Home Society of North Carolina. She has been working in the field of Education for over 15 years and has served as a parent educator working with families in various capacities across NC through home visitation, teen parenting and fatherhood engagement. She is a certified 24/7 Dad facilitator through the National Fatherhood Initiative, the largest provider of fatherhood resources and training in the nation. Ms. Jolly is also a Certified Parent Educator through the North Carolina Parenting Education Network where she has served on the board for the last 5 years. She is currently the Chair of the Credentialing Committee where she is working with a team from across NC to help professionalize the field of Parent Education. Ms. Jolly holds a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Phoenix and a Bachelors in Elementary Education.
 
Lara Kehle
Director
KidSCope
Lara Kehle is the Director of KidSCope. She has been an Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant and Certified Incredible Years Parent Educator for the past ten years. With almost twenty years of experience working with children in classroom settings as a school psychologist, board certified assistant behavior analyst, mental health consultant, and Pyramid Model coach, she has provided mental health consultation for classrooms, staff, and individual children specifically around social and emotional skill development. Lara also provides trainings on Community Resiliency Model, Stewards of Children, Nurturing the Brain, Conscious Discipline, the Pyramid Model, and HeartMath.
 
Dr. Jon Korfmacher
Associate Professor
Erikson Institute
Jon Korfmacher, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Erikson Institute, a graduate school in child development in Chicago, Illinois. His research examines the implementation and outcome of early childhood interventions, parent engagement in early childhood services, and quality assessment, with an emphasis on workforce training and development. He has worked on numerous research trials focused on home visiting programs, including Nurse Family Partnership and Early Head Start, as well as other early childhood interventions. Dr. Korfmacher also directs a training program for community-based clinicians in child parent psychotherapy, an evidence-based model for young children exposed to trauma and their families. He is a member of the management team of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC), a national network in the United States funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Dr. Korfmacher also consults nationally and internationally on research and evaluation of early childhood services.
 
Dr. Paul Lanier
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work
Paul Lanier, MSW, PhD is an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Social Work, where he teaches courses in social policy and program evaluation. Dr. Lanier received his doctoral degree from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Lanier is an expert in developing, evaluating, and scaling-up evidence-based prevention programs in child welfare, mental health, and early childhood systems. His recent work has focused on engaging and supporting low-income families with young children, particularly new fathers. He was also recently an investigator on a randomized controlled trial implementing Triple P in the child welfare system. In addition to his focus on intervention research, Dr. Lanier also uses linked, multi-sector administrative data for policy analysis of child welfare and health systems serving vulnerable populations.
 
Taylor McDonald
Partnership Engagement Manager
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina
Taylor McDonald serves as the Partnership Engagement Manager for Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina. While focusing on connecting with stakeholders and surrounding communities, Taylor collaborates with counties in North Carolina to provide evidence-based knowledge on protective factors, ACES awareness, and the implementation of Community Child Abuse Prevention Plans. Taylor enjoys working with diverse groups throughout the state to assist in executing important stepping stones needed to gain awareness about child abuse prevention. Outside of her career, Taylor engages in philanthropic work that focuses on the inclusivity of children and families in low SES communities. Taylor is currently working part time on her PhD in Human Developmental Sciences.
 
Dr. Ebonyse Mead
Program Officer
The North Carolina Partnership for Children
For 17 years, Ebonyse has been a devoted advocate, providing coordinated and comprehensive early childhood and family support services to improve educational and health outcomes for children and families of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. Since 2015, Ebonyse has worked at the state level promoting racial equity in early childhood by providing training on diversity, inclusion and equity with a particular focus on examining structural barriers to educational equity, implicit racial bias, and culturally responsive instruction to the early childhood workforce in North Carolina. Ebonyse is a Certified Family Life Educator and holds a Doctorate of Education in Early Childhood from Concordia University Chicago. She earned a Master’s of Arts in Human Service Counseling also from Concordia University and completed a second Master’s of Science in Family Studies from Texas Woman’s University. Her research interests include: racial inequities in early childhood, specifically suspensions and expulsions of children of color, implicit racial bias, sociocultural factors that shape family structures and processes, and culturally responsive family engagement. Ebonyse is deeply committed to creating safe and brave spaces to talk about institutional racism and promote diversity and equity in early childhood. She is passionate about creating equitable programs and practices for diverse families and their children.
 
Nadia Moreta
Partnership Engagement Manager
Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina
Nadia Moreta is the Partnership Engagement Manager with Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina. Nadia believes that all children deserve to grow up in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment free of abuse and neglect. She is a National Trainer in the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework and the trauma informed curriculum Connections Matter. Nadia holds a M.S.Ed. from the University of Miami and has worked in the Nonprofit Industry in North Carolina for the last 6 years focused on causes that include: youth development, affordable housing, food insecurity, and latinx issues.
 
Dr. Christine Murray
Director
UNC Greensboro Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships
Christine Murray, Ph.D., LPC, LMFT, is the Director of the UNC Greensboro Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships. She also directs the Guilford County Healthy Relationships Initiative, which is a partnership between UNC Greensboro and the Phillips Foundation. Dr. Murray also has extensive research and practice experience addressing domestic violence and other forms of family violence, including as Co-Founder of the See the Triumph social media campaign and as a member of the Guilford County Family Justice Center’s Executive Committee. To learn more about the Healthy Relationships Initiative, please visit www.guilfordhri.org.
 
Jen Neitzel
Executive Director
Educational Equity Institute (EEI)
Jen Neitzel, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Educational Equity Institute (EEI). Prior to this position, she was a Research Scientist at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Neitzel has a diverse background in both early childhood education and early childhood special education. Her work over the years has focused both on research as well as on training and technical assistance. Dr. Neitzel has extensive experience with developing and implementing coaching and technical assistance programs with teachers. With EEI, Dr. Neitzel works closely with educational organizations and systems to help them better understand the barriers that perpetuate the longstanding opportunity gap and implement culturally responsive anti-bias practices within classrooms to address racial inequities. Dr. Neitzel’s work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and she presents regularly at high profile conferences across the country.
 
0Mark Ownbey
NC Healthy Families America State Consultant
NC Department of Public Health MIECHV Team
Mark Ownbey is the NC Healthy Families America State Consultant with the NC Department of Public Health MIECHV Team.  He has over 29 years of experience using evidence-based practices to help vulnerable children and families reach their full potential.  During that time, he has served as a direct care practitioner, consultant, trainer, evaluator, researcher, parent educator, curriculum designer, and site developer for programs using the Healthy Families America and Teaching-Family Models in numerous service settings including; in-home services, group homes, schools, and psychiatric units.  His research has investigated the effectiveness of Therapeutic Foster Care with sexually aggressive pre-adolescents and the impact of the Healthy Families America Model on parenting attitudes, children’s social-emotional development, and rapid repeat births.  Mark and his wife, Jeannie, have been Teaching-Parents in residential group homes, foster parents, and they are the parents of one adopted and three natural children.
 
Mary Peniston
Chief Program Officer
Child First-National Program Office in Connecticut
Mary Peniston, MPA, is the Chief Program Officer of Child First in the National Program Office in Connecticut. She has played a key role in developing the national network of affiliates and working with state and local partners to start-up and sustain Child First programs. She has diverse experience working in under-resourced communities in the U.S. and Latin America to develop programs that strengthen families and the communities they live in.
 
Lisa Pullis
Program Director
Iredell County Partnership for Young Children
Lisa is the Program Director at the Iredell County Partnership for Young Children in Statesville, NC. She has worked in the early childhood field for over 24 years. She is an endorsed cultural competency facilitator. Lisa believes it is time for us to stand up, step up, and speak up to support the early childhood workforce, and that we must recognize, respect, and support the field in every way. If the early childhood workforce is supported and thriving, families and children will also thrive and succeed. She holds an M.Ed. in Early Childhood Leadership & Program Administration.
 
0Jeff Quinn
Jeff Quinn is the National Director of for Family Connects International, a population health approach program that enhances the local system of care and connecting families to community resources via nurse home visits. Quinn works with other national partners as well as home visiting programs across the country. Quinn previously was the Director of Community Alignment for Family Connects International and before that, he served as director of community resources with Family Connects Durham as well as coordinated a number of other projects at the Center for Child and Family Policy. Quinn has also completed research in the realm of fatherhood and fathers' unique impacts on child development. Quinn received his undergraduate degree from Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, in May 2001, and in May 2010 he received his master's degree in public health from The Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he focused his studies on health behavior and health education.
 
Lauren Rabinovitz
Senior Policy Associate
Georgetown Center for Child and Human Development
Lauren Rabinovitz, MPH, MSW, LCSW-C is a Senior Policy Associate at the Georgetown Center for Child and Human Development, Early Childhood Division. Lauren is the Program Director for the SAMHSA funded Center of Excellence on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation. Lauren brings a unique perspective to policy, research and technical assistance based on many years of clinical and community mental health provision. Lauren is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker with specialized training and experience in Early Childhood Mental Health. Lauren’s passion is the intersection of early childhood and population health.
 
Melissa Radcliff
Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons Center
Melissa Radcliff has been with Our Children’s Place of Coastal Horizons Center based in Wilmington, NC since February 2007. Our Children’s Place is a statewide education and advocacy program focused on children of incarcerated and returning parents. Prior to that she was the Executive Director and a founding staff member of the Family Violence Prevention Center of Orange County (now the Compass Center for Women and Families), the local domestic violence agency serving Orange County, NC. She has worked in the area of victim services since the 1990s at a domestic violence agency, rape crisis center, prosecutor’s office, and police department in Rhode Island, Arizona, and North Carolina. She serves as chair of the Pre-Release Committee for the Orange Correctional Center, a minimum custody men’s prison facility located in Hillsborough.
 
Rhodus Riggins JR
Quality enhancement coordinator at the Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development project
UNC Greensboro
Rhodus Riggins, Jr. is a grassroots advocate and early care and education professional with over 29 years of extensive experiences in research, technical assistance, professional development, and evaluation. He is a quality enhancement coordinator at the Education, Quality Improvement and Professional Development project at the University of North Carolina -Greensboro. He is an Adjunct Faculty member at Alamance Community College. He is an endorsed cultural competency facilitator. He is most passionate about ensuring front-line workers have the respect, compensation, and supports needed to fulfil their roles. He holds an M.Ed in Educational Leadership, Public Policy, and Advocacy.
 
Michele Rivest
Policy Director
NC Early Education Coalition
Michele Rivest is the Policy Director at the NC Early Education Coalition, a statewide advocacy association dedicated to advancing quality early care and education in North Carolina. Michele leads the Coalition’s state policy and advocacy efforts for young children and their families. She also coordinates the Think Babies™ NC initiative. Michele has extensive experience in early childhood policy at the national, state and local levels, and an education background in early childhood education and public policy.
 
Robin Roberts
Implementation Support Specialist and National Trainer
Parents as Trainers
Robin Roberts is an Implementation Support Specialist, PAT National Trainer and International Initiatives contact for Parents as Teachers. She has been involved with PAT for over 25 years as a parent educator, program supervisor, state leader, and PAT National Center Board of Directors member. She is passionate about empowering others through training, writing, and coaching. Robin has a MS from the University of Tennessee. She currently resides in Raleigh, North Carolina with her husband, Jeff.
 
Theresa Roedersheimer
Infant Toddler Policy Consultant
NC Division of Early Childhood and Early Education
Theresa Roedersheimer is the Infant Toddler Policy Consultant for the NC Division of Early Childhood and Early Education where she serves as the subject matter expert on issues and policies concerning infants, toddler and the early education workforce. In her former position she provided technical assistance and professional development to the early education workforce. She also has experience working in and managing child care programs. Theresa is a board member for the North Carolina Association for the Education of Young Children and contributes to multiple early education related committees. In 2014, Theresa received her Master’s Degree in Education and is currently working towards an Education Specialists (Ed.S.) degree. She has been in the field of early education for over 15 years. Theresa is particularly interested in workforce development and early education policy reform.
 
Leah Parrish Santibañez
Program Manager
Exchange Family Center
Leah Parrish Santibañez is the Program Manager of the Family Support Program at Exchange Family Center (EFC). She joined EFC in 2013. Leah earned her Bachelor's degree in Human Development and Family Studies and her Master's degree in Social Work from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and a certified ABC-Infant and ABC-Toddler parent coach.
 
Agatha Schutte
Family Support Worker- Healthy Families Durham
Center For Child and Family Health (CCFH)
Agatha Schutte, MPH, is a Family Support Worker with Healthy Families Durham at the Center For Child and Family Health (CCFH). Agatha has worked as a home visitor at CCFH for 13 years working with families or parents of children 0-3 years utilizing evidence based Healthy Families America and Parents as Teachers models. Agatha is a certified Circle of Security Parent Group provider.
 
Colette Stanzler
Principal of Advisory Services
Root Cause
Colette Stanzler is a Principal of Advisory Services at Root Cause where she leads continuous quality improvement and collective action initiatives, evidence-based research, and program assessment projects with nonprofits, government agencies, and foundations. Prior to Root Cause, Colette spent several years in the financial services industry managing complex, multi-departmental projects to improve operational efficiency. She holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a BA from the University of Rochester.
 
Natalie Tackitt
North Carolina Coordinator for HealthySteps
Zero to Three
Natalie Tackitt is the North Carolina Coordinator for HealthySteps, a program of Zero to Three. She earned a Master in School Administration at UNC-Greensboro, a Master in Education of the Deaf at Smith College, and a Bachelor in Early Childhood Education at Bloomsburg State University. She has over 30 years experience in a variety of educational settings. Natalie has a strong belief that we best strengthen communities by strengthening families.
 
Rachel Taylor
Children's Services Coordinator
Families Moving Forward
Rachel Taylor, MDiv, MSW serves as the Children’s Services Coordinator for Families Moving Forward, a temporary home for children and families experiencing homelessness. Rachel oversees the programming for children within the shelter. Rachel has numerous years of experience working with young children and families, and is a certified ABC-Infant Coach.
 
Kandace Thomas
Senior Program Officer
Irving Harris Foundation
Kandace Thomas works to help individuals, programs and our society experience transformation by learning, doing and being. Dr. Thomas is a senior program officer at the Irving Harris Foundation where she provides vision and strategic direction for integrating early childhood development and child trauma-informed best practices into programs and systems, and where she led the creation of the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work With Infants, Children and Families, a framework and approach to help organizations and systems that work with children and families. A published author and well-sought out speaker, Dr. Thomas sits on local and national advisory groups related to children’s social-emotional development and well-being, diversity-informed practice and mindfulness.
 
Dr. Sarah Verbiest
Director
Jordan Institute for Families in the School of Social Work
Sarah Verbiest, DrPH, MSW, MPH is the Director of the Jordan Institute for Families in the School of Social Work and Executive Director of the Center for Maternal and Infant Health in the School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Verbiest has led many initiatives to improve maternal and infant health outcomes, with a particular focus on health equity. Currently, the Jordan Institute is launching a new resource for postpartum mothers as well as a national campaign to improve care for moms. She is also the lead on the national preconception health campaign. She has held a governor-appointed seat on the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force for over a decade and pretty much loves everything that has to do with moms, babies, and families. www.JordanInstituteforFamilies.org
 
Jenny Vial
Director of Child Care Resources
Buncombe Partnership for Children
Jenny Vial has been active in the early childhood education field for 17 years and has presented at the local, state, and national level on topics including classroom best practices, coaching, cultural competency, foster care, trauma-sensitive classrooms, and resiliency. Jenny has served the early childhood community as an early intervention provider, operator of a Family Child Care Home, Early Head Start home visitor, and as an ECE technical assistance provider. She is currently the Director of Child Care Resources at Buncombe Partnership for Children and a Resiliency Educator with Resources for Resilience.
 
Jodi Wert
Education Integrator
Jodi Wert is an Education Integrator based in Durham, NC. Drawing on 23 years experience in the early childhood, primary, and tertiary sectors, she partners with educators and families to weave together early years pedagogy, curriculum, and learning environments to wholly support young children. Her work is shaped by interpretation and experience across a wide range of contexts, including international living in México, Argentina, and Singapore, as well as professional development with the educational project of Reggio Emilia, Italy. She believes that equitable, relationship-based education is an entry point to civic wellbeing.
 
Darden White
Clinical Faculty Member,
Center for Child and Family Health
Darden White, MEd, LPC, is a licensed clinician and clinical faculty member at the Center for Child and Family Health in Durham, NC. She obtained her MEd in Community Counseling from the University of Oklahoma in 2011. Ms. White specializes in Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT), an evidence-based treatment for young children with behavioral concerns. Currently, Ms. White is the Associate Director of the PCIT and CARE Training Program as an endorsed Level I Trainer, by PCIT International, and a CARE Trainer. She is highly active in the PCIT & CARE community, including participating on a task force for PCIT International, as well as in research, service, training and consultation for PCIT and CARE. Ms. White specializes in work with children and families considered to be at-risk. Additional interests lie in providing therapeutic interventions to children who have experienced trauma, children with sexualized behaviors, and applying PCIT to children on the autism spectrum.
 
Jodi Whiteman
Senior Advisor
Public Consulting Group
Jodi Whiteman, Senior Advisor, has over 20 years of experience in the early childhood field working within early care and education, early intervention, infant and early childhood mental health, health and child welfare systems. She currently provides industry knowledge to lead and assist in strategic planning and product/service line development. She provides subject matter expertise on a range of early childhood topics and leads research, speaking engagements and service offerings nationally and internationally. Prior to joining PCG, Ms. Whiteman co-directed the Professional Development and Workforce Innovations department at ZERO TO THREE. In this position Ms. Whiteman was responsible for advancing ZERO TO THREE’ s capacity to offer high quality professional development and technical assistance services to the early childhood field. Jodi’s past experiences as an early intervention developmental specialist, a speech and language therapy assistant, an Early Head Start director and a certified educator of infant massage, informs her work and passion for supporting very young children and families. She holds a B.S. in Speech and Hearing Sciences from the University of Arizona and a M.Ed., in Curriculum and Instruction from George Mason University.
 
Jan Williams
Training Consultant
Center for Child and Family Health
Jan Williams, LCSW has been working for 30 years with children and families. After being instrumental in the formation of Healthy Families Durham at the Center for Child and Family Health in 1996, she served as Program Director for fifteen years and then served as Clinical Supervisor. She has a strong interest in evidence-based programming for the prevention of child abuse and promotion of school readiness in young children, and has experience working in the Healthy Families, Parents as Teachers, and Early Head Start Home-based models. She has devoted much time to understanding the impact of trauma and secondary traumatic stress on home visitors and home visiting programs, and is becoming known as a national speaker on these issues. Jan has presented at numerous state and local conferences and has received the Donna Stone Award from Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina and two Champion for Children awards from Durham’s Partnership for Children.
 
Vilma M Williams
Senior Manager of Multilingual and Special Programs
Council for Professional Recognition, Child Development Associate (CDA) Program
Vilma M. Williams is the Senior Manager of Multilingual and Special Programs at the Council for Professional Recognition, Child Development Associate (CDA) Program. She was born in Lima, Perú. She oversees all special programs, and special populations ensuring that they receive the same level of top quality as all other primary programs and integrates multilingual/special programs’ needs and concerns throughout all Council operations. She has been involved in the field of Early Childhood Education for over 30 years. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our field. She studied Early Childhood Education/Child Development at Catholic University, Howard University, and University of the District of Columbia. She speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese. She is an expert presenter and trainer. She has presented at many events throughout the U.S., Puerto Rico, Cuba, Peru, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Brazil, Germany, Korea, Japan and the United Arab Emirates. Her presentations cover an array of diverse topics in the field of early childhood education/child development, such as appropriate curriculum, credentialing, adult/parents education, Home Visitation, Dual Language learning and Bilingual/Multicultural issues, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, among others. Mrs. Williams has received numerous awards for her continuous work and dedicated service to the field of early childhood education. Specifically, for her work with Latino children, families and community, her educational support to the Migrant community and Indigenous nations in the United States, the Military community in the USA and abroad, and for her international work on behalf of the Council for Professional Recognition.
 
Susanne Walker Wilson
Senior Trainer
Resources for Resilience
Susanne Walker Wilson, LCSW, ITFS has partnered with parents/caregivers and children (birth to 6) as a parenting educator, early intervention specialist and home visitor, therapist, and consultant for 26 years. This work fuels her search to interrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma and ACEs. A Morehead Scholar at UNC-CH, Susanne has worked in inner-city Washington DC, in rural WNC, and in Colombia, South America. She is a founding member of the NC Infant Mental Health Association, a certified Circle of Security facilitator, and also teaches Nurturing the Infant Brain, Buffering Toxic Stress. In her work as a senior trainer for Resources for Resilience, Susanne shares information about attachment, co-regulation and self-regulation with leaders in public schools, early childhood settings, health and behavioral health contexts, faith communities and grassroots neighborhood work. Her own kids are 21 and 18 and still keep teaching her about the Circle. COSP is a just right fit with what Susanne believes about attachment, preventing ACEs, building repair when they occur, and growing well families and well communities.
 
Mary Wise
Bilingual Clinician and Clinical Faculty Member
Duke Center for Child and Family Health
Mary Wise is a bilingual clinician and a clinical faculty member for the North Carolina Child Treatment Program at the Center for Child & Family Health. Her clinical expertise is in early childhood trauma and mental health assessment and treatment, and she is a rostered clinician in several evidence-based models (CPP, TFCBT). She is on the ZTT Expert Faculty Roster as a trainer for DC: 0-5. Her current research addresses early childhood grief and loss.
 
Hayley Young
Early Childhood Data Analyst
NC Department of Health and Human Services
Hayley Young, MPH, is an Early Childhood Data Analyst in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Secretary. Ms. Young works to combine her academic training and experience in children’s health with her technical experience in data analytics to provide innovation and value to the work that her team is forwarding in North Carolina. She helps oversee the North Carolina Early Childhood Integrated Data System (NC ECIDS), which integrates early childhood state-level data across agencies to answer policy and research questions. Ms. Young also oversees data work for the North Carolina Early Childhood Action Plan, a data-informed, statewide strategic plan to improve early childhood outcomes for children ages birth to 8 in North Carolina by 2025. Ms. Young received her master’s degree in Public Health with a focus on Behavioral Sciences and Health Education at Emory University, and holds a certificate in maternal and child health. Her bachelor’s degree is in Public Health from the University of South Carolina.
 
Heather Zanzig
CDSA of Western NC
Heather Zanzig, MSW, LCSW went from outpatient practice in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health to providing home-based services in 2015. She is rostered in Attachment Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Heather is passionate about supporting caregivers and their children in developing more positive and attuned relationships.