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CEED Field Faculty
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CEED Field
Faculty work on a variety of activities at CEED, including
face-to-face training, online instruction, and work on programs
affiliated with CEED. This group is guided by the leadership of
Christopher Watson,
Ph.D. (CEED Co-Director).
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Dea
Anderson
Kathi Blomquist
Cynthia Croft
Jane Ellison
Michele Fallon
Anne Gearity
Scott Harman
Leah Hjelseth
Karen Lindberg
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Julie Nelson
Joann O'Leary
Jolene Pearson
Mary Quinlan
Susan Schultz
Carol Siegel
Jill Simon
Gerhard Suess
Cory Woosley |
Affiliated
Faculty
Lillian Duran
Theresa Estrem
Carol Leitschuh
Mary Ann Marchel
Shelley Neilsen Gatti |
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Dea Anderson
is
the Coordinator of Inclusion Consultation and Training with Center
for Inclusive Child Care and Fraser Institute in Minneapolis,
Minnesota. Dea has worked in the field of early childhood care and
education for over 25 years. She has been a classroom teacher,
assistant director, trainer, and consultant.
Dea
attended Mankato State University in Mankato, Minnesota where she
received a Bachelor of Science Teaching Degree in Elementary
Education with a minor in Early Childhood Education. She also
attended the University of Minnesota completing the Licensure
Program in Early Childhood Special Education. Dea currently attends
St. Mary's University in the Master's of Arts Program in Marriage
and Family Therapy with the goal of certification in play therapy.
Some of
the areas in which Dea trains include the following: Project
EXCEPTIONAL, Project EXCEPTIONAL – Behavior Curriculum, BEAM,
Sensory Processing Disorder, OUNCE, MediaWise, The Six Keys:
Strategies for Promoting Children’s Mental Health in Early Childhood
Programs, “Hand-In-Hand” – Supporting Children with Play Problems,
and Red Flags for Developmental Concerns. Dea is a member of MnAEYC
(Minnesota Association for the Education of Young Children) and
Early Childhood & School Age Trainers Association (ECSATA).
Dea
lives in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis, and enjoys
gardening, reading, sewing, stamping, and attending theatre
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 Kathi
Blomquist, PHN, MS, IMH-E®-III is a public health nurse by
background and has worked primarily as a home visitor with infants
and families in a variety of public health nursing and other
community settings since 1979, providing relationship-based services
to support parents in their developing relationships with their
children. She worked as a home visitor and group facilitator in the
STEEP™
program at St. David's Child
Development and Family Services, and is currently an
Infant-Parent Specialist (home visitor) in the Healthy
Families/Infant-Parent Development Program at St. David's Child
Development and Family Services (part of the Metro Alliance for
Healthy Families). She is also an NCAST (Parent-Child Interaction
Scales) instructor and consultant. Her professional interests are in
areas of reflective practice, infant and early childhood mental
health, and home visiting.
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Marit Appeldoorn, MSW, LICSW, directs two programs
at St. David’s Child Development and
Family Services:
Family Place
(a therapeutic preschool program for at-risk families) and the new
Early Childhood
Outreach and Consultation initiative providing mental health
consultation to child care programs. She has a long-standing interest
in infant and early childhood mental health, as well as
interdisciplinary collaboration in group settings and working with
families experiencing multiple levels of risk. She is on the adjunct
faculty of the Augsburg College social work department, and has a
private psychotherapy practice in Minneapolis. Marit is a 1996
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 Cynthia
Croft is Director of the Center for Inclusive Child Care at
Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota where she also serves as
faculty in the College of Education.
She is adjunct faculty at Minneapolis
Community and Technical College and teaches for the Minnesota
on-line Eager To Learn program. She has her M.A. in Education with
Early Childhood Emphasis. She has authored The Six Keys:
Strategies for Promoting Children’s Mental Health in Early Childhood
Programs and co-authored Children and Challenging Behavior:
Making Inclusion Work with Deborah Hewitt. In addition, she has
edited two children’s books series, Helping Youth with Mental,
Physical, & Social Challenges for Mason Crest Publishers. |
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 Jane Ellison,
MS, LAMFT, is licensed in Parent
Education, Early Childhood Education, and Marriage and Family
Therapy. She has been working with infants, toddlers, and their
parents for more than 20 years. Jane has worked with families with
complex needs through grant programs for Child Abuse and Neglect
Prevention, Family Literacy, Early Head Start collaborations, and
parents of children with special needs. Her professional focus is in
Infant Mental Health, and she is presently on the CEED Field Faculty
in the area of Infant Mental Health.
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 Michele Fallon provides clinical direction
to the Baby's Space Partnership which is replicating the Baby's Space
model of integrating high quality child care and family support
services for infants, toddlers, and their families. Baby's Space, the
original program, which is located a the Little Earth NELC, is now its
own non-profit, separate from the University. The Partnership is
currently engaged in a two-year research project to identify outcomes
related to the model; the project is known as Identifying Essential
Elements of Childcare and is also based out of the Whittier NELC
and coordinated by Dr. Naharajakumar.
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 Anne Gearity,
Ph.D., LICSW,
has a mental health practice with children, adolescents and adults;
does community consultation and developed an innovative intervention
model for very at risk young children presenting with aggressive
behaviors in collaboration with the Washburn Center for
Children. This manual is now available for download from the
Washburn Center.
Anne is community faculty at the University of Minnesota School of
Social Work and faculty in the U of M Infant and Early Childhood
Mental Health Certificate program, co-sponsored by CEED and the
Harris Center. |
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 Scott Harman,
MSW, LICSW, oversees an adaptation of
STEEP™ as a program director for
St. David's Child Development &
Family Services in Minnetonka, Minnesota. Areas of professional
interest include infant and early childhood mental health,
developmental psychopathology, and preventive intervention with
high-risk families. A 1992 graduate of Fordham University, Scott
recently completed a two-year post-graduate training program in
infant and early childhood mental health through the Jewish Board
for Family and Children's Services in New York.
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 Leah Hjelseth is a Graduate Research
Assistant for CEED. She currently works on two projects. The first
is a multi-year research and training project focused on early
childhood social-emotional development, mental health and
challenging behaviors, funded by the Minnesota Department of
Education. The second is the Baby's Space Partnership which is
replicating the Baby's Space model of integrating high quality child
care and family support services for infants, toddlers, and their
families. Baby's Space, the original program, which is located a the
Little Earth NELC, is now its own non-profit, separate from the
University. The Partnership is currently engaged in a two-year
research project to identify outcomes related to the model; the
project is known as Identifying Essential Elements of
Childcare. Ms. Hjelseth has also worked on the Improving
Preschoolers' Reading Outcomes through Measurement and Intervention
in Classroom Environments (I'PROMICE) at CEED.
Her current training, research, and
teaching interests center around addressing challenging behavior in
early childhood and early childhood social-emotional development. Ms. Hjelseth teaches two online courses for CEED, Bridging
Education and Mental Health, which she has taught since January
of 2005; and Addressing the Needs of Young Children with
Challenging Behavior, which she has taught since summer of
2006. Leah received her M.A. in Educational
Psychology from the University of Minnesota in 2002. She is
currently pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology with a
thesis examining the effects of intensive coaching on teacher
behavior aimed at decreasing challenging behavior in children and
facilitating social-emotional development. |
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Karen Lindberg, PHN, MPH,
is a
2009
graduate of CEED’s Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate
Program.
She is an NCAST (parent child interaction) instructor and has
provided annual seven-day trainings to home visitors throughout
Minnesota since 1996. Karen is employed as the Maternal Child Health
(MCH) Program Coordinator for the Dakota County Public Health
Department, leading policy and program development for MCH
populations and serving as consultant/mentor to home visiting staff
and nursing students. She has been a trainer for NCAST-AVENUW’s
Promoting Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy Program since
2007. Karen is passionate about supporting young families and has
made it a priority to maintain a direct service role with pregnant
and parenting families throughout her 30 plus years as a public
health nurse.
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 Julie
Nelson is currently an Early Childhood Teacher working on
the Families Together Program at Life Track Resources, which is a
therapeutic preschool for traumatized children. She has a B.A. in
psychology from St. Olaf College and has completed level two child
abuse prevention studies at the University of Minnesota. She is also
the author of several books,
Families change: A book for children experiencing termination
of parental rights and Kids need to be safe (Free
Spirit Press). |
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 Joann
O'Leary, Ph.D., MPH, MS. Dr. O'Leary has a Ph.D. in Work,
Community and Family Education and a Masters in Maternal-Child
Health from the University of Minnesota. She also has a Masters in
Psychology through research from Queens University in Belfast,
Northern Ireland. Dr. O'Leary's research was initially funded by the
Bush Foundation. She is a certified Neonatal Behavioral Assessment
Scale examiner and does research and writing on pregnancy and
parenting after the loss of a baby, including its impact on
siblings. |
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 Jolene
Pearson, M.S., IMH-E®,
(IV),
holds a B.E.S. degree from the University
of Minnesota in Child Development. She earned a masters in
science from
Wheelock College in Boston in Infant and Toddler Behavior and
Development. Ms. Pearson completed internships with Drs. Berry Brazelton and James Herzog at Harvard Medical School's Child
Development Research Unit and Family Development Clinic in
Boston, MA. Ms. Pearson has been an adjunct faculty member and
instructor at the University of Minnesota teaching courses in
parent education, infant mental health, and early childhood
special education, and Parent Infant Pathways. She is a
certified Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale examiner and is
licensed in the fields of Parent Education, Early Childhood
Education, and Early Childhood Special Education. |
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 Mary
Quinlan, M.S.,
holds a Master of Science Degree in Psychology. She has been
employed by Mary Bridge Children's Hospital located in Tacoma,
Washington since 1998. Ms. Quinlan directs the hospital's community
service programs. Ms. Quinlan represents Mary Bridge Children's
Hospital and CEED through participation in community and Washington
State child welfare initiatives.
Trained as a school counselor, Ms. Quinlan's professional experience
combined with personal advocacy efforts led her to hospital-based
work during the implementation of the Parenting Partnership. The
Parenting Partnership, a unique adaptation of the University of
Minnesota's STEEP™,
is a child abuse prevention/intervention model designed to meet the
needs of medically fragile infants living in socially vulnerable
families. Ms. Quinlan has had the honor of presenting STEEP™
at statewide, regional, and international conferences. She accepted
recognition on behalf of Parenting Partnership from the 2002
Washington State Governor's Child Abuse Prevention Awards Ceremony
and the 2003 Federal Office on Child Abuse and Neglect's Award for
an "innovative" Emerging Practice in Child Abuse Prevention. In
2006, she presented the program at the World Association of Infant
Mental Health conference in Paris, France. She is interested in
teaching courses on behalf of CEED related to STEEP, SIB, infant
mental health, child abuse prevention/intervention, and children
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 Susan Schultz,
MPH, Ph.D., LICSW, LP, has a private practice
offering mental health services to children, adolescents, and
adults. Her special interests include infant mental health, infant
observation, and therapeutic intervention with very young children
and parents. Susan developed a curriculum for an online course
entitled "Introduction
to Infant Mental Health" and offers training and consultation to
early childhood and mental health professionals. She is currently a
case consultant to the social work staff of
Children's Hospitals
and Clinics of Minnesota.
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Carol Siegel, Ph.D.,
LP, is a clinical psychologist
in private practice in Minneapolis. She received her doctorate from
the Wright Institute in Berkeley, California and trained at
the Infant Parent Program at the University of California, San
Francisco, the San Francisco Child Abuse Prevention Center, and
McLean Hospital in Boston. From 1999 to 2005, Carol served as the
clinical director of the infant/Toddler and Family Focused Program
at Washburn Child Guidance Center in Minneapolis. She remains a
consultant to that program and is also working with the Minneapolis
Public Schools Early Childhood Special Education Department and CEED's BEAM project.
Carol sees parents and children in her
private practice. She also provides training, collaboration, and
consultation to professionals on topics such as high-risk families,
infant-parent psychotherapy, attachment and infant mental health,
parenting and parental mental health issues, intergenerational
transmission of abuse and neglect, play therapy, and mental health
issues in early childhood.
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 Jill Simon,
MSW, LICSW, has over 20 years experience
in prevention, early intervention, and mental health. Her work in
home visiting began with Project STEEP™,
a research project at the University of Minnesota, Institute of
Child Development. She is co-author with Martha Farrell Erickson of
the STEEP™ and the Seeing is
Believing™ Training Materials. Jill
is currently Case Consultant and Supervisor with Dakota Healthy
Families, an early intervention program providing intensive home
visiting to overburdened parents. She is a Licensed Independent
Clinical Social Worker with a Masters degree in Social Work and a
Certificate in Child Abuse Prevention Studies from the University of
Minnesota. As field faculty for CEED/Harris Programs, Jill offers
training and consultation on relationship-based practice with
parents and their young children.
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 Cory Woosley
Cory Woosley is currently Program
Manager for Eager to Learn, Minnesota Child Care Resource and
Referral Network. She has coordinated a national online learning
program for the past seven years. She has worked in a variety of
areas in Early Childhood for the past 27 years. In 2008, she
completed an Online Instructional Degree at Concordia University in
St Paul, MN. She has developed online curriculum for many different
programs as well as teaching the "Effective Practices of Online
Learning." In addition, she is Early Childhood faculty in the
Minnesota State College and University System. |
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Affiliated Faculty
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 Lillian Duran,
Ph.D.,
earned a Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota and
is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Elementary
and Early Childhood Education at Minnesota State University, Mankato
(MSU). Last year she reestablished the Early Childhood Special
Education (ECSE) licensure program at MSU. Lillian has worked for 10
years as an ECSE teacher both in Prince George's County, Maryland
and in rural Minnesota. She became interested in early second
language acquisition when she and her family moved from the
Washington D.C. area to New Ulm where she worked as an ECSE Lead
Teacher for the River Bend Education District for three years in
many communities with high Latino populations such as Gaylord, St.
James, Madelia, Arlington, and Sleepy Eye. She then worked for two
years with Mankato Public Schools as a birth to three home visitor
with a growing population of immigrants from Somalia and the Sudan. |
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 Theresa
Estrem,
PhD, CCC-SLP,
has been a certified SLP for over 25 years. She has a Master’s
Degree in Communication Sciences and Disorders and a Doctorate
Degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Minnesota.
Currently, she is on faculty in the Department of Communication
Sciences and Disorders at St. Cloud State where she teaches,
supervises graduate students, and does research, with an emphasis on
autism. Yet her diverse interests in the field of communication
disorders include screening, assessment, and intervention services
to immigrant and language minority children with disabilities, and
recruiting linguistically and culturally diverse students to the
field of speech-language pathology. Her goal is to learn more about
the prevalence of autism among immigrant and language minority
families, parents’ perceptions and attitudes of communication
assessment and intervention services, and factors that are barriers
to best outcomes for their children. |
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Ann Marchel, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the
University of Minnesota Duluth and teaches undergraduate and
graduate level coursework in the Department of Education. She
received her Ph. D. in 1996 from the University of Minnesota Twin
Cities. Prior to her doctoral work, Dr. Marchel taught for 10 years
in rural and urban settings with children ages birth to eight years
with disabilities. Her research interests include the encouragement
of inclusion for young children with disabilities through the use of
assistive technology, reflective practices for early childhood
professionals, and fostering children’s mental health in child care
settings. Dr. Marchel recently completed the Infant and Early
Childhood Mental Health Certificate Program offered through the
University of Minnesota and was recently awarded a ZERO TO THREE
Leaders for the 21st Century Fellowship. She is a certified
Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) trainer and is certified
in the Newborn Brazelton Observation System (NBOS) and the Nursing
Child Assessment Satellite Training (NCAST). In addition, Dr.
Marchel is a certified Infant Massage Instructor. She is passionate
about global service learning and currently facilitates university
student experiences in settings for young children with disabilities
in Puerta Vallarta, Mexico. |
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