Please join the Children’s Safety Network (CSN) on Monday, May 18, 2026 for a webinar highlighting how the Child Safety Learning Collaborative (CSLC) builds sustainable impact in child safety. In this webinar, participating states from CSN’s CSLC will share how they have built sustainability in their child safety programming across the CSN Framework for Quality Improvement and Innovation, highlighting stories, lessons learned, tools, and resources that can be used and adapted by any injury and violence prevention program.
The CSLC, an initiative of CSN at Education Development Center, aims to reduce injury and violence among infants, children and adolescents nationwide. The CSLC builds Title V capacity through technical assistance in child safety, systems improvement, and leadership and management. Title V teams use data to inform decision making and apply quality improvement and innovation methods to sustainably implement and spread evidence-based strategies throughout their state. Currently in the second of three cohorts, state teams are actively working on infant safe sleep, bullying prevention, suicide and self-harm prevention, and motor vehicle traffic safety.
Presenters:
Jenny Stern-Carusone, Associate Director at the Children’s Safety Network, 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. Ms. Stern-Carusone 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. She is the topic lead for child passenger safety and teen driver safety in the Child Safety Learning Collaborative.
Lauren Gilman, Senior Training & Technical Assistance Associate, 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 the content specialist for bullying prevention for the Child Safety Learning Collaborative. Her integrated approach to advancing substance misuse prevention and SEL emphasizes interconnected risk and protective factors and fosters collaboration at the community level.
Clare Grace Jones, Senior Training & Technical Assistance Associate, is a public health and safety expert specializing in capacity building, instructional design, training, quality improvement, project support, and virtual engagement. A Community Prevention Specialist, she has 20 years of experience promoting public health, with a focus on substance misuse prevention and the Strategic Prevention Framework. Jones advances health, behavioral health, safety, and injury and violence prevention initiatives through her roles with the Children’s Safety Network as the Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention Topic Lead of the Child Safety Learning Collaborative.
Maria Katradis, Senior Training & Technical Assistance Associate, is an education and public health researcher with expertise in youth development, adult learning, international education, and quality improvement. She is the content specialist for suicide and self-harm prevention and poisoning 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.
Moderator:
Beth Oestreich is the Injury Prevention Program Director and the Family Health and Wellness Maternal and Child Health Lead at the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services. She has over 15 years of injury prevention work in healthcare settings and public health. She is currently attending North Dakota State University, earning her master’s degree in public health. She has a Community Health Education Specialist certification (CHES). She is involved in many different advisory boards, committees, coalitions, cohorts, alliances, and councils throughout the state and at the national level. Beth is a member of the Children’s Safety Now Alliance and participated in the Child Safety Learning Collaborative.