Speaking At:

The Center for Coordinating Oregon Home Visiting Systems: Lessons & Progress in Systems Change

Bio:

After teaching in public schools for more than 15 years, and a variety of direct service work including advocacy for survivors of DV, SA, and mass casualty events, providing resettlement support for people immigrating from Slavic countries, and fundraising for pediatric AIDS research, I joined Oregon’s early childhood systems work in 2019. I initially led technical assistance and training at Central Coordination for Child Care Resource and Referral and Spark (Oregon’s ECE QRIS) at WOU, and then coordinated ECE professional learning at the Early Learning System Initiative (ELSI) at OSU. I am passionate about infant and toddler mental health, early literacy, and equitable, inclusive access to culturally responsive healthcare, education, and behavioral health support for all children and families. My current work includes facilitating collaboration of cross-agency and cross-program model state home visiting leadership that is inclusive of families, tribes, and culturally specific organizations in support of local home visiting coordination, and facilitating support for the LGBTQ+ ECE and parenting education workforce.