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CEED Field Faculty
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CEED Field
Faculty work on a variety of activities at CEED, including training,
reflective practice groups, development of courses, and Infant
and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate Programs.
This group is guided by the leadership
of
Martha Farrell Erickson, Ph.D.
(Senior Fellow and Director of CEED's Harris Programs, and Co-Chair of
the President's Initiative on Children, Youth, and Families at the
University of Minnesota) and by Christopher Watson,
Ph.D. (CEED Director of Professional
Development).
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Kathi Blomquist
Jane Ellison
Anne Gearity
Scott Harman
Karen Lindberg
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Mary Quinlan
Susan Schultz
Carol Siegel
Jill Simon
Gerhard Suess
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Kathi Blomquist, PHN, MS
St. David's
Child Development and Family Services
3395 Plymouth Road
Minnetonka, MN 55305
Phone: 952-548-8690
Email:
kblomquist@stdavids.net
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Kathi 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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Jane Ellison, MS,
LAMFT
Work email:
jane.ellison@isd47.org
Home email:
janeellison@astound.net
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Jane Ellison 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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Anne Gearity, Ph.D., LICSW
Email:
geari002@umn.edu
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Anne Gearity is in mental health practice with children, adolescents and adults;
does
community consultation; is the principal consultant for Washburn Child
Guidance Center's day treatment programs and a Bush-funded evaluation
project; and is adjunct faculty in the University of Minnesota School of Social
Work. Anne has been involved with infant mental health initiatives since the
1970s.
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Scott Harman, MSW,
LICSW
Email:
sharman@stdavids.net
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Scott Harman 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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Karen Lindberg, PHN, MPH
Email:
karen.lindberg@co.dakota.mn.us
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Karen Lindberg has a Master's Degree in
Public Health with a Maternal Child Health Major from the University
of Minnesota. She is an NCAST (parent child interaction) instructor
and has provided annual seven-day trainings to home visitors
throughout Minnesota for the past 10 years. Karen is employed as the
Maternal Child Health (MCH) Program Coordinator for the Dakota
County Public Health Department leading program planning and
evaluation for MCH Grant populations, providing consultation and
training for PHN home visitors and managing nursing student
clinicals. Karen has extensive experience providing home visits to
high-risk families, addressing mental health issues, and providing
classes to pregnant and parenting teens.
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Mary Quinlan,
M.S.
Phone: 253-403-4517
Email:
mary.quinlan@multicare.org
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Ms. Quinlan 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 manages the hospital's child abuse prevention and
intervention programs including the Pediatric Sexual Assault
Program, Pediatric Physical Assault Program, Foster Care Assessment
Program, Suspected Child Abuse Review Team, Children's Advocacy
Center of Pierce County and Parenting Partnership (an application of
STEEP™). Ms. Quinlan represents Mary Bridge Children's Hospital and CEED through participation in community and Washing 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. She is
interested in teaching courses on behalf of CEED related to STEEP,
SIB, infant mental health, child abuse prevention/intervention, and
children with special health care needs.
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Susan Schultz,
MPH, Ph.D., LICSW, LP
Email:
sschultz@iaxs.net
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Susan Schultz 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
Email:
cfsiegel@gmail.com
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Carol Siegel 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, LICSW
Email:
simo0169@umn.edu
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Jill Simon 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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Gerhard Suess,
Ph.D.
Email:
info@gerhard-suess.de
Hamburg University of Applied
Sciences
Social Work Department
Hamburg, Germany
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Gerhard Suess is a licensed
psychotherapist who has worked since 2003 as a professor of clinical
psychology and developmental psychology in the Social Work
Department at Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Germany). He
received is doctorate from the University of Regensburg in 1987. As
a student of Klaus Grossman (1977-1987) and Alan Sroufe (1982-1983),
Gerhard was involved in attachment research within the Minnesota
Longitudinal Study and two German longitudinal studies. After
earning his doctorate, Gerhard worked in the field of Child
Guidance, direction several community centers, and since 1999 has
focused on children from birth to three. He continues to direct a
"Zero to Three" program in Hamburg in addition to his university
teaching. Gerhard's special interests are translating attachment
theory and research into practical application in the area of
developmental psychopathology.
Since 2000 Gerhard has been promoting
the implementation of the STEEP program in Germany and currently is
involved in two major STEEP intervention studies in Germany--one in
cooperation with Christiane Ludwig-Koerner (Potsdam University of
Applied Sciences) and one in cooperation with Ruediger Kissgen
(University of Cologne).
More information about Prof. Suess
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