TRANSFORM Webinar Recordings
TRANSFORM Research Center hosted 21 webinars over a three-year period, which are archived below. Topics ranged from learning about Transform’s work, ways to support children and families, addressing trauma, and how caretakers and policymakers can best help children.
06/30/2022
In this webinar, Kristen Quinlan, Ph.D., and Alexandra Karydi, Ph.D., LMFT, CAC, CASAC II discussed suicide risk among those engaged with youth-serving state systems, like juvenile justice and child protective services. Dr. Quinlan addressed what we know about suicide morbidity and mortality rates among this population, along with data and system limitations that inhibit our ability to use data to fully understand and address risk. Using a socioecological model, Dr. Karydi discussed factors at the individual, family, community, and societal levels that either contribute to, or mitigate, risk among this population. Together, Drs. Quinlan and Karydi provided concrete examples of policy and other system-level changes that would better support youth at risk, along with real-world examples of programs and strategies with demonstrated efficacy for changing suicide risk among youth engaged in state systems.
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Kristen Quinlan, PhD, is a Senior Research Scientist at the Education Development Center (EDC). With an extensive background in evaluation, she is skilled in outcomes focused strategic planning and data-driven decision making. She serves as co-lead evaluator for the Colorado National Collaborative and serves as a data advisor to the National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention.
Alexandra Karydi, Ph.D., LMFT, CAC, CASAC II, is a Project Director and provides technical assistance for the States and Communities Initiative with the Suicide Prevention Resource Center at EDC. Before joining EDC, Dr. Karydi was the Director of Project 2025 at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. She is a certified addictions counselor and a licensed marriage and family therapist.
Dr. Gregg Margolis joined Dr. Catherine Cerulli to discuss health policy and how it relates to child welfare. Dr. Margolis began the webinar with an overview of the federal health policy landscape providing insight to the governmental components and influences inside and outside the government. He shared diagrams that organizations can utilize after the webinar to craft their educational materials and circulate them to the right individuals. Dr. Cerulli discussed how the federal policy landscape impacts child welfare and how many of the statutes passed impact families for decades. She also shared some tools created by a cohort of Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Scholars (2020-21), with help from the TRANSFORM team, to help organizations share the federal policy landscape with the constituents they serve to help educate citizens on policy and how it influences their lives. Additionally, she shared a Bill of Responsibilities which can help us understand our collective responsibilities to promote equitable opportunities for health and well-being.
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Gregg S. Margolis, PhD, is the Director of Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs at the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). In this role, Dr. Margolis leads six of NAM’s nationally renowned health policy fellowship and leadership programs with a mission of building health policy leadership and expertise for the future.
Catherine Cerulli, JD, PhD, is a Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) and the Director of the Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization. She also directs the UR Susan B. Anthony Center. The Center focuses on translating science regarding social determinants of health into practices to try and change lives.
02/10/2022
Dr. Nancy Weaver discussed how to apply communication sciences, analytics, and public health principles to promote healthy and positive parenting to reduce the prevalence of childhood abuse and neglect. During the webinar she discussed Support Over Silence for KIDS, which teaches bystanders the skills for responding to struggles between caregivers and children in public. Dr. Weaver created this program to educate community members on how to listen empathetically and non-judgmentally to parents and caregivers in tense situations to help deescalate what’s happening in the moment.
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Nancy L. Weaver, PhD, MPH, is a Professor of Behavioral Science at Saint Louis University. She blends communication science, analytics, and public health principles to support institutions in adopting effective public health programs. Whether encouraging nurturing relationships between parents and kids, or coaching instructors in best practices for connecting with their students online, she advances strength-based messages that are easy to understand and tools that are easy to apply.
She launched Support Over Silence for KIDS to provide communities with bystander training to support parents struggling with their children in public. Dr. Weaver is Co-director of the Community Engagement Core of the Center for Innovation in Child Maltreatment at Washington University and works in partnership with community organizations across the country.
11/18/2021
TRANSFORM chose the theme of resiliency for our 2021-22 webinar series to shed light on how science and practice come together to help us better prevent and address child abuse and neglect. In this webinar, we discussed neuroplasticity of the brain. When children face difficult experiences, their brains can change and adapt and often develop flight or fight responses. Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney shared her work with children and explored how we can maximize on the amazing capabilities in a child’s early life to promote brain growth and language.
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Dr. Ashley Darcy-Mahoney, PhD, NNP is a neonatal nurse practitioner and researcher, who has advanced nursing research, education, and practice, with a focus on neonatology, infant health, and developmental pediatrics. Her innovative work has led to the creation of programs that improve infant health and developmental outcomes for infants. As the director of infant research at George Washington University’s Autism and Neurodevelopmental Institute, she also advances the body of research in infant health and developmental outcomes in high-risk infants with a focus on understanding the early brain and development trajectories in this population. Her research leverages her knowledge in neonatal nursing, behavioral and cognitive assessment and training in neuroimaging to inform an understanding of multimodal social learning and social perception among high-risk infants and toddlers. NIH, Office of Minority Health, HRSA, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, United Way, and Macy Foundation have funded her work, and she has published in high-quality peer-reviewed inter-professional journals. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nurses and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholar Alumna.
This panel includes three clinician scholars who gave “lightning talk” style presentations on Black males’ experiences with trauma, Latinx providers’ vicarious trauma, and healing centered interventions with Black girls. This panel enabled the attendees to review the impacts of violence, victimization and trauma among Black and Latinx populations, as well as providers. The facilitators used their applied research and practice with communities to share strategies about how the quality of life for these populations and providers can be enhanced. This webinar addressed the urgent need for providers, educators, and other researchers to center populations who have been traditionally neglected.
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Dr. Camille Quinn is an Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at The Ohio State University. She is a juvenile justice expert and has nearly 20 years’ experience as a clinician and administrator in social and health services. Dr. Quinn is a licensed social worker in Illinois and Ohio, which informs her program of research. Dr. Quinn conducts mixed methods research with a collaborative spirit to engage community, university and government partners in her work.
Dr. Henrika McCoy is an Associate Professor and Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Student Services at Jane Addams College of Social Work, University of Illinois Chicago. Dr. McCoy’s research has predominately focused on strengthening the screening of mental health needs for youth who have juvenile legal system involvement and examining the intersection of mental health and juvenile delinquency, particularly for African American boys ages 12 to 17. Her work also focuses on the violent victimization experiences of Black males, ages 18 to 24.
Dr. Kathryn Bocanegra is an Assistant Professor at Jane Addams College of Social Work at University of Illinois Chicago. She is a licensed clinical social worker and also serves as Senior Advisor to Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul on crime victim and violence prevention issues. Dr. Bocanegra has over 15 years of community-based mental health and violence prevention experience and specializes in working with survivors of violent crime.
06/24/2021
Caregiving deprivation and maltreatment during childhood have impacts on adolescent development, including neural and behavioral development. This webinar reviewed what has been discovered in research examining the impact of institutional orphanage care and child maltreatment on brain development and the development of substance use and disorder. These findings were then discussed in the context of adolescence and how this developmental period is a crucial time of risk and opportunity following early life adversity.
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Elizabeth Handley, Ph.D., Director of Research at Mt. Hope Family Center and an Assistant Professor at the University of Rochester. Max Herzberg, Ph.D., post-doctoral research scholar in the Department of Psychiatry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
05/20/2021
Across the United States, communities suffered from the consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic. Black communities and communities of color grappled with the collective trauma brought on by systemic and institutional racism. This webinar highlights the impacts of those traumas on our communities and ways to work towards community resilience. At TRANSFORM, we believe to address the many complex issues facing our communities, we must work across systems, sectors, and disciplines to build bridges to foster solutions.
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03/09/2021
The TRANSFORM Research Center led a virtual cross-sector forum exploring ways to improve mental, emotional and behavioral health for kids involved with the Child Welfare System in Rochester, NY. U.S. Congressman Joseph Morelle and Director, Monroe County Systems Integration Project (SIP), Laura Gustin, provided an overview of SIP’s efforts to be an interconnected human centered delivery of services system. The Forum spotlighted SIP’s Youth Behavior Health Pilot and provided space for cross-sector Community of Practice breakout discussions regarding community needs and possible collaboration.
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01/21/2021
In 2019, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a ground-breaking report, The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for All Youth. In this presentation, Susan Vivian Mangold, an author on this report, presented her findings and described how adolescent developmental science can be applied to child-serving systems, including the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Through the findings of the report, Ms. Mangold discussed many of the leading issues for youth, families, and advocates working to transform the child welfare and juvenile justice systems.
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Susan Vivian Mangold is Chief Executive Officer at Juvenile Law Center. She is a Professor Emeritus at University at Buffalo School of Law, where she taught for over 20 years and served as Vice Dean for Academics. Her teaching and scholarship focused on Children and the Law. Ms. Mangold was also Chair of the University-wide Strategic Strength in Civic Engagement and Public Policy, and brings her expertise in community-based research to Juvenile Law Center. She is co-editor of West Publishing’s casebook, Children and the Law: Doctrine, Policy and Practice (7th Edition, 2020).
12/17/2020
The way that sensitive topics are covered by the media has an impact on those directly involved and on the community. This is especially true for stories involving child abuse and neglect. In this webinar, two experienced reporters shared their experiences with covering stories involving child abuse and neglect. For professionals who work in the field of child abuse and neglect, and for researchers who study child maltreatment, this webinar shared insights on how to best interact with journalists and the media.
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Steve Orr was a Democrat and Chronicle watchdog reporter, meaning he focused his attention on institutions and people who engage in activities that affect the public and who may, at times, prefer that details of those activities not see the light of day. Over a long career at the Democrat and Chronicle, he wrote countless investigative and explanatory stories. Some have had major impact on the community. Others may have touched only a handful of people. All of them were important in their own way.
Gary Craig is a member of the Democrat and Chronicle’s Watchdog team, and focuses on public safety and criminal justice. He has worked at Rochester newspapers since 1990, covering City Hall, politics and federal courts before joining the newspaper’s investigative team. He has won state and national investigative writing awards.
09/17/2020
Youth who are maltreated might face a number of difficulties in the classroom, including social and academic problems. However, some maltreated youth show resilience, or the ability to overcome their adversities and succeed. This webinar reviewed the science of resilience and its applications to classroom settings. It also reviewed potential consequences of childhood maltreatment that teachers might see in educational settings as well as the ways that teachers can foster resilience among youth who have undergone child abuse and neglect. Further, presenters discussed how teachers can support traumatized youth in the age of COVID-19.
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Erinn Bernstein Duprey, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center in the Department of Psychiatry, and has a PhD in Human Development and Family Science from the University of Georgia. Her research examines the developmental processes linking childhood maltreatment with mental health outcomes for youth. Overall, her goal is to produce research on the consequences of child maltreatment that can be effectively translated into interventions and prevention programs.
Melissa Heatly, Ph.D. is a clinical child psychologist specializing in integrative and interdisciplinary approaches to child mental health. She directs the Expanded School Mental Health Initiatives at UR Medicine, which provides comprehensive school-based behavioral health services, consultation, and training to youth and educators across the Greater Rochester region. Her work includes the dissemination, implementation and program evaluation of comprehensive school mental health systems, mental health training for educators and community members, and increasing access to evidence-based mental health for youth and families.
05/21/2020
Dr. Natalie A. Cort, provided information regarding the role of race in screening, assessing, referring and treating child abuse and neglect (CAN). She shared strategies for diversifying the professional landscape of adults (e.g., mental health counselors, psychologists) that children interact with.
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02/27/2020
This webinar demystified the gap between research and policy and discussed an approach aimed at supporting researchers in creating a better bridge with policymakers.
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Taylor Bishop Scott is a Research Assistant Professor in the Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center, with a doctorate in community psychology from the Health Psychology Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her research interests include broad-based promotion of well-being and success among at-risk children via community-based programs and public policy. Her research aims to understand ways to support policymakers’ use of research evidence.
01/07/2020
This webinar discussed how to create a Community of Practice – a concept for sharing, managing, and creating knowledge – in your area.
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Marilyn Gisser, who has over 20 years of experience in Washington State Public Health and is part of the Essentials for Childhood initiative team.
Teresa Posakony, a leadership and organization development consultant focusing on building healthy, resilient communities and organizations using a trauma and resilience-informed approach.
Kody Russell, the executive director of Kitsap Strong with over 10 years of experience working with children and families in the child welfare system and who is one of 25 Washington State certified trainers in the NEAR sciences curriculum.
09/26/2019
This webinar discussed innovative ways to work collaboratively across systems to prevent child abuse and neglect.
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09/09/2019
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Catherine Cerulli, our Core Team Director, sat down with Lawline to talk about TRANSFORM.
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08/22/2019
This webinar discussed research in best practices in forensic interviewing of children who have experienced trauma.
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08/19/2019
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Laws and policies regarding the care and treatment of children separated from their parents often land these families in the legal system as they struggle with alternative parenting plans, the termination of parental rights, and immigration issues. The science regarding attachment spotlights the lasting influence of these children’s experiences. In this program, Drs. Jody Todd Manly, Mt. Hope Family Center’s Clinical Director, and Catherine Cerulli, an attorney and current Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the University of Rochester’s Susan B. Anthony Center and the Laboratory of Interpersonal Violence and Victimization, shared and translated evidence-based information regarding the consequences of parent-child separation into practical tools for lawyers. They also discussed interviewing techniques and basic principles of trauma-informed lawyering skills needed when dealing with children and parents who have experienced separation.
07/25/2019
This webinar discussed how we can share data across child welfare, court, and social service systems to improve outcomes for children.
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06/27/2019
This webinar discussed attachment theory and the impact of parent-child separation.
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05/23/2019
This webinar discussed our innovative research center, TRANSFORM.
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