June 2020 Newsletter

Spotlight: Cohort Eight Fellowships Graduation

As our final cohort graduates from the Doris Duke Fellowships for the Promotion of Child Well-being this month, we would like to celebrate the 15 scholars’ hard work, accomplishments, and future endeavors. We are so proud of all of you and look forward to your continued commitment to the network and field! We welcome everyone to learn more about these 15 scholars through the interactive map below. On the map, click on the blinking dots and each fellow’s name to learn more about their work and interests.

PCAA/Doris Duke Fellowships Partnership

The Doris Duke Fellowships is currently partnering with Prevent Child Abuse America (PCAA) to organize and disseminate products on responding to the COVID-19 crisis and drawing upon lessons learned to help chart a new course forward for the field. The PCAA team is working to catalogue fellow and chapter products on the PCAA website and is in the planning phase for a series of webinars on the following topics: early intervention/home visiting, supporting educators and education systems, and integrating an equity-lens into child maltreatment prevention work. If you are interested in getting involved, please contact Bart Klika (bklika@preventchildabuse.org).

Doris Duke Fellows named Editors for the APSAC Advisor & APSAC Alert

Dr. Lisa Schelbe, Cohort One fellow, and Dr. Carlo Panlilio, Cohort Three fellow, were named by the Board of Directors of The American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children (APSAC) to serve as editors of the APSAC Advisor, a peer reviewed quarterly news journal, and the APSAC Alert, a digital publication of a concise summary of key findings of empirical research. The editorial team is committed to a wide range of views and seeks to encourage contributions from new and inexperienced authors. To assist these authors, training materials discussing the writing and publishing process will be accessible in Fall 2020 on the APSAC website. One of the new editorial team’s first projects is a special issue of the Advisor on the COVID-19 pandemic. The special issue seeks to include multiple perspectives and new voices; manuscripts representing APSAC’s multi-disciplinary focus are encouraged. View the Call for Papers here. If you are interested in serving as a reviewer for the APSAC Advisor, please sign up here.

Fellows Updates:

Emily Bosk, Cohort Two fellow, has engaged in several COVID-19 related policy activities:

She served as a member of a workgroup that produced this report: Recommendations of the Perinatal Care During COVID-19 Work Group.
She served as a panelist on a webinar for Maternal and Child Health sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Hospital titled: Helping Families during the Pandemic.
She published a paper in Child Abuse and Neglect about frontline staff characteristics and capacity for trauma-informed care.

Judith Scott, Cohort Five fellow, has two updates:

She was quoted in The Washington Post about how to talk to children about race.
Her research lab, the Children and Families Across Cultures Coping with Trauma (CFACCT), wrote a brief with basic cultural knowledge and the needs of Chinese immigrant families in the Greater Boston area. They are also developing and maintaining a COVID-19 resource database. This work is based on her team’s findings from the fellowships-funded Research to Action Grant.

Jenny Shields, Cohort Six fellow, officially accepted a position at the Center on Child Abuse and Neglect at University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC) as an Assistant Professor.

Lindsay Huffhines, Cohort Six fellow, was recently awarded a F32 postdoctoral fellowships from NICHD. Her grant is titled "Emotional and Physiological Regulation Linking Child Maltreatment to Health Risk." She was also awarded a Thrasher Early Career Research Award to complete a project titled: “How and For Whom Does Adversity Lead to Childhood Obesity: A Mediated Moderation.”

Debby Moon, Cohort Eight fellow, received funding to conduct the following research projects:

Developing a Community-Based Prevention Model: Enhancing Safety and Well-Being for Ohio’s Children and Families, a collaboration with the Ohio State University and Case Western Reserve University. It is funded by a Community Collaborations to Strengthen and Preserve Families Grant from the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services and the US DHHS Administration for Children and Families.
The CHURCH Project: Congregations as Healers Uniting to Restore Community Health, a Practice Innovation Opportunity Grant funded by the Center for Interventions to Enhance Community Health (CiTECH) & Center for Race and Social Problems (CRSP), University of Pittsburgh.

Anika Schenck-Fontaine, Cohort Six fellow, received funding via the PSID Small Grants Program to conduct research comparing the effects of material hardship on children’s cognitive and social-emotional development in the US and UK.