Join the Children’s Safety Network for an interactive discussion on the value of identifying an aim statement and long and short-term goals in child safety programming. Come prepared with your state action plans aims and be ready to break down your long-term goals into short term goals and action steps over a 90-day timeframe. We will support you in understanding how to use implementation data to revise and refine your plan towards achieving your long and short-term goals. This webinar will include examples from states in the Child Safety Learning Collaborative that utilize a 90-day aim process to plan effectively and reach their goals.
Presenters:
Jenny Stern-Carusone, MSW, has over 20 years of experience as a prevention professional, designing and providing technical assistance to state agencies, tribal governments, community-based organizations, schools and juvenile justice departments to improve prevention strategies and service delivery by customizing approaches to address clientele’s unique needs.
As Associate Director at the Children’s Safety Network, Jenny builds the capacity of states and jurisdictions to use data and evidence-based strategies to reduce injury-related deaths, hospitalizations, and emergency room visits. She leads a team implementing quality improvement approaches to improve child safety through rapid cycle tests of change and spreading evidence-based practices. Jenny has presented at national conferences on child and adolescent injury prevention, systems improvement, and youth mentoring and juvenile justice reform. Her other expertise includes online event design and implementation, including adult learning principles and webinar production in multiple platforms. Additionally, she serves as Program Manager for the Quality Measures in Rural NY program and as the chief technical producer for the Regional Educational Laboratories.
Lauren Gilman, MA, is a highly skilled technical assistance specialist and an experienced program manager, with extensive knowledge of mental health promotion, behavioral health, school-based initiatives, substance misuse prevention, youth violence prevention, and mentoring. Drawing on her health communications and capacity-building expertise, she helps community organizations and school districts bridge research and practice, implement and sustain evidence-based programs, strengthen cross-sector collaboration, and use data-driven planning to achieve systems change.
Lauren is a training and technical assistance specialist for the Children’s Safety Network and is the content specialist for bullying prevention for the Child Safety Learning Collaborative (CSLC). Her integrated approach to advancing substance misuse prevention and SEL emphasizes interconnected risk and protective factors and fosters collaboration at the community level.
Maria Katradis, PhD, is an education and public health researcher with expertise in youth development, adult learning, international education, and quality improvement.
Maria is a training and technical assistance specialist for the Children Safety Network and is a co-manager of the Child Safety Learning Collaborative. She is the content specialist for suicide and self-harm prevention and sudden unexpected infant death prevention. She manages and analyzes data, provides training and technical assistance, and presents on topics such as quality improvement and evidence-based and evidence informed strategies for child and adolescent injury and violence prevention. She utilizes both qualitative and quantitative research methods to help states develop a clearer picture of where they are in their quality improvement process.