Lesson 1Introduction & Overview

Meet Your Facilitator

The Center of Excellence for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation is pleased to present this learning module on Providing Family Engagement: Explore IECMHC Strategies for Enhancing Family Engagement in Center Based Early Care and Education

Catherine Ayoub, MD

Associate Professor,

Harvard Medical School

• more about your facilitator (full biography)

  Dr. Catherine Ayoub is a licensed psychologist and nurse practitioner with research and practice interests in the impact of childhood trauma across the life span and the development and implementation of prevention and intervention systems to combat risk and promote resilience with emphasis on young children and their families across cultures and communities.

  Her work at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center includes program development, research and evaluation consultation and training. She is currently leading the development of a bi-lingual effort for Latino Touchpoints. She is responsible for overseeing the evaluation efforts at the Center and is presently engaged in research around child, family and system-level assessment with attention to evidence-based practice.

  Her current research and evaluation centers on the developmental consequences and emotional adjustment of children who have experienced child maltreatment, chronic illness, and difficult parental divorce, as well as witnessed domestic and community violence.

  She directs ongoing research in prevention and intervention systems for young children and families, including playing a central role in the longitudinal evaluation of children and families in Early Head Start, an innovative systems-wide preventive intervention related to depression and parenting within early childhood care systems, and as local evaluator for the Red Cliff SAMHSA LAUNCH initiative.

  Raised in Mexico, Dr. Ayoub comes from a multicultural background and has special expertise in clinical work, program development and research with Latino families.

As a result of the webinar, social workers will:

• Explore how IECMH consultants can support enhanced family engagement in early care and education programs
• Understand the online modules related to IECMHC and family engagement

In your IECMHC role do you…

• Engage with or work with families?
• Greet & talk with families at pick up or drop off? On home visits?
• See families when a child is identified with problem?
• Offer workshops for families?
• Serve as a facilitator/consultant for a parenting group?