Here you can review handouts from the January 13, 2011 conference,”Treating the Effects of Trauma in the Very Young Child: Building Resiliency with Protective Factors”. Presentations were given by Joy Osofsky, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Public Health, Head, Division of Pediatric Mental Health, Louisiana State University; Matthew Melmed, J.D., Executive Director of ZERO TO THREE; and Lucy Hudson, M.S., Project Director, ZERO TO THREE Court Team Project for Maltreated & Neglected Infants & Toddlers.
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Early Experiences Matter Jan 13 11
Honolulu Court Community Presentation Power Point
Childrens Health Fact Sheets – HIUS1 2007
Healing the Child in Juvenile Court -Dr. Joy Osofsky – JAN 2011
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Presenter Biographies
Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D.
Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D. is a clinical and developmental psychologist and Barbara Lemann Professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans. She is Head of the Division of Pediatric Mental Health. Dr. Osofsky is Co-Director of the Louisiana Rural Trauma Services Center, a center in the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, and Director of the Harris Program for Infant Mental Health. She is editor of Children in a Violent Society (Guilford, 1997) and Young Children and Trauma: Intervention and Treatment (Guilford, 2004) and co-editor of the four volume WAIMH Handbook of Infant Mental Health. Dr. Osofsky is Past-President of Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families and Past-President of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Following Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Osofsky was asked to serve as Clinical Director for Child and Adolescent Initiatives for Louisiana Spirit, and in that role, she provided leadership for the State of Louisiana Crisis Counseling Program. She continues to provide leadership for the State related to disaster response and recovery following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has consulted nationally and internationally related to trauma and disaster response, especially for children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Osofsky does research, intervention, and clinical work with infants, children, and families exposed trauma as a result of maltreatment, disasters, community and domestic violence, and military deployment. She served on the Pew Commission for Children in Foster Care. For over 14 years, she has consulted with juvenile courts throughout the United States and with Zero to Three Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers related to the establishment and evaluation of programs to benefit the development of high risk young children and families. In 2007, she received the Sarah Haley Award for Clinical Excellence for trauma work from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies. In 2009, the LSUHSC team from the Department of Psychiatry was awarded the Distinguished Partners in Education Award by the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education of the Louisiana State Department of Education for their work in schools following Hurricane Katrina. In 2010, Dr. Osofsky was honored with a Presidential Commendation from the American Psychiatric Association for her work in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In October 2010, the team from the Department of Psychiatry at LSU Health Sciences Center received the American Psychiatric Association’s Gold Medal, the highest national award, for the University-Community collaboration related to work with the St. Bernard Parish School System following Hurricane Katrina.
Matthew Melmed, J.D.
As Executive Director of ZERO TO THREE, Matthew Melmed is an internationally recognized leader and tireless advocate devoted to promoting the health and development of infants and toddlers. Bringing together the perspectives of many fields and specialties and cutting-edge research about the importance of early experiences, Mr. Melmed is committed to translating what we know into what we do for very young children and their families.
Since 1995 he has guided the growth of the organization’s activities to help enhance early social emotional development through promotion, prevention and treatment strategies in both public and private systems and programs. Under his leadership ZERO TO THREE launched a number of major initiatives including:
- The Early Head Start National Resource Center
- The National Infant Toddler Child Care Initiative
- The Center for Training Services
- The ZERO TO THREE Press
- Coming Together Around Military Families
- Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers
- The ZERO TO THREE Policy Center
- The ZERO TO THREE Leaders for the 21st Century Fellowship
In addition, Mr. Melmed has initiated national parental awareness campaigns and forged strong partnerships with corporate and nonprofit partners. Under his leadership, the organization has flourished and ZERO TO THREE’s budget has grown to more than $16 million. Its many accolades include being selected in 2001 by Worth Magazine as one of “America’s 100 Best Charities” and both Mr. Melmed and ZERO TO THREE were recently awarded the prestigious Sonya Bemporad Award by the World Association of Infant Mental Health. This award is given in recognition of significant contributions to the advancement of social and public policies that contribute to the mental health and overall benefit of infants, toddlers, and their families.
Prior, Mr. Melmed served for 13 years as Executive Director of the Connecticut Association for Human Services. He began his career as a staff attorney for Connecticut Legal Services in 1978. Mr. Melmed is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harpur College, where he graduated with highest honors. He received his Juris Doctor degree from the Faculty of Law and Jurisprudence at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo.
Mr. Melmed is currently serving as the first elected Chair of the Children’s Leadership Council, a coalition of 44 leading national policy and advocacy organizations working together to improve the health, education and well-being of children and youth. He also chairs the Board of the Food Research and Action Center, the nation’s leading domestic anti-hunger policy organization, serves as vice-chair on the Board of Generations United and has been a Director on such Boards as Rob Reiner’s I Am Your Child Foundation. The recipient of several community, state, and national honors, his highest honor is that his two sons think he is “pretty o.k.”
Lucy Hudson, M.S.
Lucy Hudson serves as the Director of ZERO TO THREE’s Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers. She is supervises the implementation of the Court Teams model in four communities and develops project materials. She is the author of Healing the Youngest Victims: Model Court-Community Partnerships, developed in partnership with the American Bar Association. Ms. Hudson has over 30 years of experience in project management, program implementation, and policy development in public and private sector child care, child welfare, health care, and youth-serving organizations. Prior to joining ZERO TO THREE, Ms. Hudson served for 8 years as the Project Director for the Juvenile Justice Resource Center for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. She earned her master’s degree in day care administration from Wheelock College.
