Julie Schillreff (Cohort III) - $5,000 training grant from the Montana Law Foundation to support the efforts of the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Missoula County.
Kendra Jimenez (Cohort IV) - $5,000 training grant for the Community Dispute Resolution Center of Missoula County.
Lynn Debilzen and Laura Corcoran (Cohort IV) - $8,400 grant from the Sliver Foundation, to be used for playground equipment for the Missoula YWCA.
Erin Anderson (Cohort IV) and Elizabeth Murphy (Cohort II) - $42,000 grant from the Llewelyn Foundation to Missoula Youth Homes.
Joshua Lisbon (Cohort IV) - 19,500 grant for a wilderness program he has designed for at-risk youth he has worked with through WORD in Missoula.
In addition, Lynne and Nancy were successful in obtaining UM Faculty Development Visiting Scholar funds to bring Dr. Martha Erickson to campus in April 2008. Dr. Erickson is Co-Chair of the President’s Initiative on Children, Youth, and Families at the University of Minnesota, where she also directs a certification program in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health. She specializes in linking research, practice, and public policies in the areas of parent-child attachment, child abuse prevention, and children’s mental health concerns. Dr. Erickson and her colleagues have developed the STEEP program (Steps Toward Effective, Enjoyable Parenting) which is an outgrowth of more than 25 years of longitudinal studies regarding early prevention/intervention with families and young children living in high-risk circumstances. She has also developed a video feedback strategy for working with these families, and oversees training for people implementing these programs both nationally and internationally. IYFD students were able to attend Dr. Erickson’s workshop as well as a luncheon discussion of recent efforts on behalf of young children in Tanzania.
