Evaluation of a Collaborative Community-Based Child Maltreatment Prevention Initiative.

Katie Rosanbalm is trained as a child clinical and quantitative psychologist. Her work focuses on program implementation and evaluation in the areas of early childhood systems, self-regulation development, child welfare, and trauma-sensitive schools. She has conducted longitudinal evaluations of child welfare reform, early childhood Systems of Care, and prevention/intervention programs for mental health and education.

Rosanbalm co-authored a series of white papers on self-regulation development from birth through early adulthood. She has also served on multiple state-level boards and task forces to strengthen the evidence-based implementation of programs for children and families.

Rosanbalm currently leads several ongoing evaluation projects, including:

• Incredible Years Dinosaur School, a randomized controlled trial of self-regulation interventions in 120 N.C. PreK classrooms
• Partnering for Excellence, a program to improve the integration of child mental health services into child welfare
• Resilience and Learning, a partnership with the Public School Forum to develop and implement a trauma-sensitive school model in North Carolina
• ITTI Care, a professional development framework to provide training and coaching on trauma-informed care to caregivers in infant/toddler classrooms.

COVID-19 Resources

Rosanbalm recently created a webinar, Self-Care: How to Combat Stress with Resilience During the COVID-19 Pandemic. She also shared a resource for people living with domestic violence during stay-at-home orders.

Tip Sheets on Supporting the Development of Self-Regulation in Young Children

Co-authored by Katie Rosanbalm for the Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Explore these tips for helping caregivers use co-regulation to support development of self-regulation skills in preschoolers and young children in home settings.

• Tips for Promoting Self-Regulation when Working with Infants
• Tips for Promoting Self-Regulation when Working with Toddlers
• Tips for Promoting Self-Regulation when Working with Preschoolers
• Tips for Promoting Self-Regulation when Working with Young Children in Home Settings

• Child Maltreatment
• Self-Regulation
• Trauma-Sensitive Schools
• Program Evaluation
• Early Childhood

Karen Appleyard Carmody, PhD, serves as a Co-Director of the Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress (NCCTS). She is a licensed psychologist and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences as well as the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her clinical and research expertise is in infant mental health, child-parent attachment, early childhood trauma and maltreatment, and evidence-based practices to address these issues. Prior to serving at the national level, she served the Durham and NC communities for 13+ years at the Center for Child & Family Health, where she served as the Director of Early Childhood Prevention Programs. In this role, she directed three evidence-based home visiting programs serving over 1,000 families per year supported by local, state, and federal funding, and managed two federal SAMHSA grants enhance Durham's early childhood system of care and support statewide early childhood mental health workforce development. She has significant experience providing trauma treatment to children and families. Additionally, Dr. Appleyard Carmody conducted program evaluation and dissemination projects for evidence-based practices for young children who have experienced trauma and early adversity, including Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up (ABC) and Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT). Dr. Appleyard Carmody also is engaged at the state and national level, including he Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative research council, as well as past roles as President of the North Carolina Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association Board of Directors and the American Psychological Association's Division 37 Section on Child Maltreatment Board.