Agenda

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2012

7:30-8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00-8:50 A.M. WELCOME
Chair: Robert Murray, President and CEO, CNA
Speaker 1: Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), President, Institute for Public Research, CNA
Speaker 2: Charles Milam, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
Speaker 3: Rosye Cloud, Director of Policy for Veterans, Wounded Warriors and Military Families, the White House

8:50-9:15 A.M. PROMOTING THE RESILIENCE OF MILITARY CHILDREN THROUGH EFFECTIVE PROGRAMS
Chair: Mark Gritz, Ph.D., Vice President, Institute for Public Research and Director of Health Research and Policy, CNA

Conference Rationale and Overview
Speaker: Sarah L. Friedman, Ph.D., Research Director, Health Research and Policy, CNA

9:15 A.M.-10:45 A.M. SCIENTIFIC FRAMEWORKS FOR UNDERSTANDING AND PROMOTING RESILIENCE
Chair: Tuppett Yates, Ph.D., University of California at Riverside

Resilience and well-being: Definition, Measures and Interventions
Speaker: J. Douglas Coatsworth, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Human Development, Pennsylvania State University

Creating Optimal Policy and Practice for Children’s Healthy Development
Speaker: Stephen Buka, Sc.D., Professor and Chair, Epidemiology, Brown University

10:45-11:00 A.M. MID-MORNING BREAK

11:00 A.M.-12:50 P.M. OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS FOR MILITARY CONNECTED CHILDREN AND THEIR PARENTS
Chair: Patricia Shinseki, MA, Member, Board of Directors of the Military Child Education Coalition

Military Sponsored Programs That Are Considered “Must Haves”
Speaker: Barbara Thompson, MS, Director, Office of Family Policy/Children & Youth, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense

National, State, and Local Initiatives
Education Programs
Speaker: Mary Keller, Ed.D., President and CEO, Military Child Education Coalition

Community Programs
Speaker: Kathy Roth-Douquet, JD, MPA, Co-Founder and CEO, Blue Star Families

Tragedy Assistance Programs for Survivors
Speaker: Heather Campagna, EdS, MA, FT, National Director of Youth Programs

Participant Discussion
Moderator: Margaret Harrell, Ph.D., Rand Corporation

12:50-1:30 P.M. LUNCH

1:30-2:00 P.M. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Sherri Goodman, JD, MPP, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA
Speaker: Robert L. Gordon III, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy

2:00-3:10 P.M. BARRIERS AND PATHWAYS TO PROGRAM PARTICIPATION
Chair: Paula Rauch, MD, Director, Marjorie E. Korff Parenting At a Challenging Time, and Director, Family Support Home Base Program, Massachusetts General Hospital

Program Utilization by Military Connected Children
Speakers: Cathy Flynn, Ph.D., and Yuko Whitestone, Ph.D., Office of the Secretary of Defense

Barriers and Pathways to Program Participation in the Military
Speaker: COL Charles Engel, MD, MPH, Director, Deployment Health Clinical Center, Defense Centers of Excellence

Participant Discussion
Moderator: CAPT Joseph McQuade, MD, MS, Director, Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida

3:10-3:30 P.M. AFTERNOON BREAK

3:30-4:40 P.M. IN THEIR WORDS: EXPERIENCES WITH PROGRAMS
Chair: Stephen Cozza, MD, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University

Providers, Parents and Children Share Their Experiences
Dr. Cozza will interview program providers, parents, and children about their experiences with military and civilian programs

4:40-6:10 P.M. CIVILIAN PROGRAMS AND THEIR EVALUATION
Chair: C. Cybele Raver, Ph.D., Vice Provost of Academic, Faculty and Research Affairs, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University

Legacy for Children
Speaker: Ruth Perou, Ph.D., Child Development Studies Team Leader, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Evaluation of a Curriculum
Speaker: Linda Cavalluzzo, Ph.D., Vice President, Resource Analysis, CNA

Creating a System for Evaluating Education Programs
Speaker: Cay Bradley, Ph.D., Senior Researcher, Mathematica Policy Research

Participant Discussion
Moderator: Peg Barratt, Ph.D., Dean, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

6:10-6:30 P.M. BREAK

6:30-7:10 P.M. DINNER

7:10-8:00 P.M. KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE PUBLIC HEALTH APPROACH TO PROGRAM EVALUATION
Chair: Woodie Kessel, BSEE, MD, MPH, FAAP, C. Everett Koop Fellow in Residence at the C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth College and Medical School
Speaker: Carolyn M. Clancey, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2012

7:30-8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST

8:00-8:20 A.M. OPENING REMARKS
Speaker 1: Sherri Goodman, JD, MPP, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, CNA
Speaker 2: CAPT Todd Veazie, BS, Executive Director, Joining Forces in the Office of the First Lady at White House

8:20-10:10 A.M. SPECIFIC PROGRAMS FOR MILITARY CHILDREN AND THEIR EVALUATION
Chair: William R. Beardslee, MD, Judge Baker Children’s Center, Harvard University

Strong Families Strong Forces
Speaker: Ruth Paris, Ph.D., Boston University

Sesame Street
Speaker: Shelly M. MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D., Director, Military Family Research Institute, Purdue University

After Deployment: Adaptive Parenting Tools
Chair: Abigail Gewirtz, Ph.D. University of Minnesota.

Families OverComing Under Stress (FOCUS)
Speaker 1: Patricia Lester, MD, Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Professor, Director of FOCUS Project, Co-Director of the Welcome Back Veterans UCLA Family Resilience Center and Medical Director of the Child and Family Trauma Psychiatry Service, University of California at Los Angeles Semel Institute
Speaker 2: Kirsten Woodward, MSW, LCSW, Family Programs Division Head and Director - Project FOCUS; Wounded, Ill and Injured - M9, Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery

Participant Discussion
Moderator: Vivian Greentree, Ph.D., Blue Star Families

10:10-10:20 A.M. MORNING BREAK

10:20 A.M.-12:30 P.M. EVALUATING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PROGRAMS
Chair: Peg Burchinal, Ph.D., Director, Data Management and Statistics Unit, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Randomized Controlled Trials
Speaker: Jon Baron, JD, President, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

Quasi Experimental Designs
Speaker: Peter Z. Schochet, Ph.D., M.Phil., Senior Fellow, Mathematica Research Policy

Comparative Effectiveness Framework
Speaker: Anne M. Doucette, Ph.D., Director, The Evaluation Institute, The George Washington University

Meta Analytic Approaches for Determining Effective Program Components
Speaker: Sandra Wilson, Ph.D., Peabody College, Vanderbilt University

Methodological Challenges and Solutions
Speaker: Rebecca Maynard, Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Participant Discussion
Moderator: Eric Christensen, Ph.D., Managing Director, Health Research and Policy, CNA

12:30-1:00 P.M. LUNCH

1:00-1:30 P.M. KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Chair: Mark Gritz, Ph.D., Vice President, Institute for Public Research and Director of Health Research and Policy, CNA
Speaker: BG Marianne E. Watson, MBA, Director, Manpower and Personnel (J-1) - National Guard Bureau

1:30-3:00 P.M. DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING STANDARDS FOR PROGRAM ACCOUNTABILITY: BEYOND THE SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES
Chair: Woodie Kessel, BSEE, MD, MPH, FAAP, C. Everett Koop Fellow in Residence at the C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth College and Medical School

Panelist:
Brent Elrod, National Program Leader-Military and Veterans Programs, United States Department of Agriculture
Cathy Flynn, Ph.D., Office of the Secretary of Defense
Robert L. Gordon III, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy
Valerie Maholmes, Ph.D., Program Director for the Social and Affective Development/Child Maltreatment and Violence Research Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development
Kathy Roth Douquet, JD, MPA, Co-Founder and CEO, Blue Star Families
Naomi Goldstein, Ph.D., Director, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families

3:00-3:30 P.M. CONFERENCE EVALUATION AND NEXT STEPS
Chair: Sarah Friedman, Ph.D., Research Director, Health Research and Policy, CNA
Speaker: Paul Speer, Ph.D., President, Center for Naval Analyses, CNA

3:30 P.M. ADJOURN

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