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2020 Nurturing Developing Minds
Conference and Research Symposium:

Partnering across Sectors to Support Child Development

Thursday, Feb. 20 & Friday, Feb. 21

Embassy Suites-Greenville Conference Center
670 Verdae Blvd.
Greenville, SC
Keynote Presenter:

Barry S. Zuckerman, MD

Founder of the Reach Out and Read and
Medical-Legal Partnership Programs
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center

with Plenary Presentations by:

Mary Louise Hemmeter, PhD

National Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning, Vanderbilt University

&

Rylin Rogers

Director of Public Policy

One or two day registration available
 
2020 Nurturing Developing Minds Conference & Research Symposium

Partnering across Sectors to Support Child Development


Conference Agenda


Thursday, Feb. 20

8:30 - 9:00 am Registration and Coffee

9:00 – 10:00 am Opening Plenary

Social Emotional Development
Mary Louise Hemmeter, PhD
National Center on the Social Emotional Foundations for Early Learning, Vanderbilt University

10:00 – 12:00 pm Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion
Moderated by Mary Louise Hemmeter, PhD

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Breakout Session 1

  • Using Play Therapy to Improve Children’s Social-Emotional Skills in Early Childhood Education Settings

Jill Shelnut, M.Ed.
Early Childhood Education Lecturer, Clemson University

Jennifer Hall, PhD
Assistant Clinical Professor, Clemson University

  • Equity, Inclusion, and Implicit Bias, in Early Childhood Classrooms and Program

Mary Garvey, MS
Director, Innovation and Inclusion, Institute for Child Success

Heather Googe, PhD
Director, South Carolina Child Care Inclusion Collaborative

  • Housing and Child Health, in Greenville and Beyond

Caitlin Hay, BS
Health Policy Fellow, Institute for Child Success

Loretta Crowley, MSW
Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy
Prisma Children's Hospital

John Young Shik Concklin, MM
Health Policy Fellow, Institute for Child Success

2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Breakout Session 2

  • Building Best Practices for Engaging Families in Trauma-Responsive School Communities to Reduce the Impact of Trauma for All Students

Julia Beaty, LISW-CP
Carolina Family Engagement Center, University of South Carolina

Lorilei Swanson, LMFT, LPC, PhD
Carolina Family Engagement Center, University of South Carolina

  • Family Mental Health: Building a Supportive Continuum

Megan Carolan, MPP
Director of Policy Research, Institute for Child Success

Dee Stegelin, PhD
Senior Fellow, Institute for Child Success
Clemson University Professor Emerita

Angela Baum, PhD
University of South Carolina

Alexis Herschkowitsch, MPA
University of South Carolina

  • The Brain Building Power of Play

Mary MacKenzie, Qualified Early Educator (UK)
Senior Fellow, Institute for Child Success

Dale Farran, PhD
Professor Emerita, Vanderbilt University

4:30 - 6:00 p.m. Networking, Poster Session and Reception

Friday, Feb. 21

8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 9:30 a.m. Keynote Address

Reducing Child Development Disparities: Next Generation Strategies
Barry S. Zuckerman, MD
Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine
Boston Medical Center

9:30 - 10:30 a.m. General Session

Agents of Change: Our Voices Driving Systems
Rylin Rodgers
Director of Public Policy
Public Policy Director


10:30 - 11:00 a.m. Break with Exhibits
11:00 - 12 noon Breakout Session 1


  • Developmental and Behavioral Challenges

An Introduction to the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)—Assessing and Treating Patients through a Developmentally Sensitive and Trauma-Informed Lens
Megan Zappitelli, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
Prisma Health Children’s Hospital

 
  • Healthcare and Wellbeing

Findings from a Benefit-Cost Analysis of Residential Asthma Interventions Using Medicaid Data
Brendan Brown, M.H.S.
Director of Evaluation & Impact at The Green & Healthy Homes Initiative


  • Early Childhood Programs

2018 SC Early Care & Education (ECE) Workforce Study
Vasanthi Rao, PhD
USC-Child Development Research Center

Melissa Starker, MEd
DSS-SC Center for Child Care Career Development

Noelle McInerney, MEd
Policy and Program Lead, SCDSS, Division of Early Care and Education


  • Promoting Healthy Child Development

Title TBD
Barry S. Zuckerman, MD
Professor of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch

1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Plenary Session

Parenting a Child with Disability: The Family Perspective
Moderated By Karen Irick
Family core Director, Center of Disability Resources
University of SC School of Medicine  
2:05 - 3:05 pm Breakout Session 2

  • Developmental and Behavioral Challenges

Apraxia and other Expressive Language Challenges: Assessment and Management
Beth Clark, M.S.; CCC-SLP
Kidnetics, Prisma Health Children's Hospital

  • Healthcare and Wellbeing

Attachment & Biobehavioral Catch-up: Bringing an evidence-based infant mental health intervention to South Carolina
Mary Ellen Warren, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychiatry, Palmetto Health-USC Medical Group

Kerrie L. Schnake, MA, IMH-E 
President of SC Infant Maternal Health Association

  • Early Childhood Programs

Early Childhood Health Promotion by Design: Creating Evidence-Based, Community-Engaged, Naturalized Childcare Center Outdoor Play and Learning Environments
Robin Moore, MCP, Hon. ASLA
Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director, Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University

Nilda Cosco, PhD
Research Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture; Director of Programs, Natural Learning Initiative, NC State University

Misty Pearson. M.Ed.
Early Care and Education Consultant, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity Prevention

  • Promoting Healthy Child Development

Pediatric Behavioral Health Navigation: A Collaborative Effort to Improve Access to Care
Alexis Rojas, MSW & PhD candidate
Program Director, Tallahassee Pediatric Behavioral Health Center, Behavioral Health Navigation Program

Emma Pattillo, BS
Project Analyst,Tallahassee Pediatric Behavioral Health Center, Behavioral Health Navigation Program

Courtney Atkins, MA
Executive Director, Whole Child Leon

3:05 - 3:30 p.m. Break and Exhibits

3:30 - 4:30 p.m. Breakout Session 3

  • Developmental and Behavioral Challenges

I’ve Got the Communication Device, Now What?
Carol A. Page, PhD, CCC-SLP
Program Director, SC Assistive Technology Program

  • Healthcare and Wellbeing

Trauma and Pain – It’s Complicated
Blake Windsor, MD
Pediatric Pain Medicine, Prisma Health Children's Hospital

  • Early Childhood Programs

Collaboration to Promote Early Childhood Well Being in Families Experiencing Homelessness: A pilot of an inter-agency model
Alison Edie, DN
Assistant Professor at Duke University School of Nursing

Karen Appleyard Carmody, PhD
Assistant Professor Dept of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center

  • Promoting Healthy Child Development

I ntersection of Patients’ Medical and Legal Needs Requires Integrated Services
Melissa Fair, MPH
Community Action Director, Inst for Advancement of Community Health, Furman University

Kirby Mitchell, JD, Senior Litigation Attorney, South Carolina Legal Service

Kerry Sease, MD, MPH, Medical Director, Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy, Prisma Health Children's Hospital


 4:30 p.m. Conference Closes
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