Agenda

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011

5:00-7:00 P.M. RECEPTION (The M Street Grill, Lobby Level)

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011

7:00-8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Ballroom, Conference Level)

All briefings will take place in the Ballroom on the Conference Level unless otherwise noted.
8:00-8:30 A.M. WELCOME
Chair: Sarah L. Friedman, PhD, Research Director, CNA Health Research and Policy
Speakers: VADM Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), President, Institute for Public Research, CNA

8:30-9:10 A.M. THE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDREN OF U.S. WARRIORS

8:30-8:40 A.M.
Chair: Woodie Kessel, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General,
United States Public Health Service (Ret.)

8:40-9:10 A.M. Workshop Overview: Challenge, Goals, Rationale, and Methods
Speaker: Sarah L. Friedman, PhD, Research Director, CNA Health Research and Policy

9:10 A.M.-12:05 P.M. FOUR DECADES OF CHILD DEVELOPMENT SCIENCE

9:10-9:20 A.M.
Chair: Lynn Liben, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Pennsylvania State University

9:20-9:40 A.M. Foundations of Healthy Child Development
Speaker: Deborah Phillips, PhD, Professor of Psychology and Associated Faculty in the Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

9:40-10:00 A.M. Children’s Secure Attachment
Speaker: Jude Cassidy, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland

10:00-10:15 A.M. BREAK

10:15-10:35 A.M. Family and Children’s Functioning
Speaker: E. Mark Cummings, PhD, Professor and Notre Dame Endowed Chair in Psychology, University of Notre Dame

10:35-10:55 A.M. Stress and Fetal Development
Speaker: Elysia Davis, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior and the Department of Pediatrics, University of California at Irvine

10:55-11:15 A.M. Stress and Child and Adolescent Development
Speaker: Emma K. Adam, PhD, Associate Professor of Human Development and Social Policy and a Faculty Fellow, Northwestern University

11:15-11:35 A.M. Resilience and Children’s Development
Speaker: Ann Masten, PhD, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota

11:35 A.M.-12:05 P.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: Lynn Liben, PhD, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University

12:05-1:10 P.M. LUNCH (Promenade Room, Lobby Level)

12:30-12:35 P.M. Introduction
Chair: VADM Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), President, Institute for Public Research, CNA

12:35-1:00 P.M. Luncheon Address: Perspectives from the National Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Ralph Cicerone, PhD, President, National Academy of Sciences

1:10-2:40 P.M. MILITARY FAMILIES’ PRIORITIES

1:10-1:15 P.M.
Chair: Patricia Shinseki, MA, Member, Board of Directors of the Military Child Education Coalition

1:15-2:10 P.M.
Facilitator: Stephen Cozza, MD, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University
Perspectives: Military Families, Children, and Adolescents

2:10-2:40 P.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: Kathy Roth-Douquet, JD, MPA, Co-Founder and CEO, Blue Star Families

2:40-2:55 P.M. BREAK

2:55-5:15 P.M. CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND MILITARY FAMILIES

2:55-3:05 P.M.
Chair: Martha Cox, PhD, Professor of Psychology, University of North Carolina

3:05-3:25 P.M. Economic Stress on Families of Injured Warriors
Speaker: Eric Christensen, PhD, Managing Director, CNA Health Research and Policy

3:25-3:45 P.M. Psychological Stress on Military Families
Speaker: Daniel M. Harris, PhD, Associate Director, CNA Health Research and Policy

3:45-4:05 P.M. Risk and Resilience and Military Families
Speaker: Paula Rauch, MD, Director, Marjorie E. Korff Parenting At A Challenging Time Program and Chief of the Child Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service, Massachusetts General Hospital

4:05-4:25 P.M. Deployment, Reunion, Injury, Death, and Military Children
Speaker: Stephen Cozza, MD, Associate Director, Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, Uniformed Services University

4:25-4:45 P.M. Positive Development of Military Youth
Speaker: Jon Zaff, PhD, Vice President of Research and Policy Development, America's Promise Alliance and Research Associate Professor in the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and a senior fellow at the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service, Tufts University

4:45-5:15 P.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: Patrick Tolan, PhD, Professor of Education and of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences University of Virginia

6:00-7:00 P.M. DINNER (Promenade Room, Lobby Level)

7:00-8:40 P.M. WORKING AS A TEAM FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

7:00-7:10 P.M.
Chair: VADM Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), President, Institute for Public Research, CNA

7:10-7:30 P.M.
Speaker: Margaret Harrell, PhD, Director, Joining Forces Initiative at the Center for a New American Security

7:30-7:50 P.M.
Speaker: Lieutenant General Michael L. Oates, USA (Ret.)

7:50-8:10 P.M.
Speaker: Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez, Armed Services Committee

8:10-8:40 P.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: VADM Lee Gunn, USN (Ret.), President, Institute for Public Research, CNA

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011

7:00-8:00 A.M. REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST (Ballroom, Conference Level)

8:00-9:40 A.M. SERVICES FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

8:00-8:10 A.M.
Chair: Lisbeth B. Schorr, Senior Fellow, Center for the Study of Social Policy, and
Harvard Lecturer

8:10-8:30 A.M. Pregnancy Preparedness and Pre-Conception Interventions
Speaker: Sharon Landesman Ramey, PhD, Distinguished Research Scholar of Human Development, Virginia Tech

8:30-8:50 A.M. Early Childhood Support Services
Speaker: Craig Ramey, PhD, Distinguished Research Scholar of Human Development,
Virginia Tech

8:50-9:10 A.M. Evidence of “What Works”
Speaker: Jon Baron, JD, President, Coalition for Evidence-Based Policy

9:10-9:40 A.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: Ann Segal, Director of the Disadvantaged Children and Families portfolio, Wellspring Advisors LLC

9:40-9:55 A.M. BREAK

9:55-11:55 A.M. SERVICES FOR MILITARY CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

9:55-10:05 A.M.
Chair: Sally Koblinsky, PhD, Professor, Department of Family Science, University of Maryland

10:05-10:25 A.M. Military Educational Services for Children
Speaker: Jennie Wenger, PhD, Principal Research Scientist, CNA

10:25-10:45 A.M. Military Health Services for Children
Speaker: Marion Burton, MD, Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs and Director of Community Pediatrics, University of South Carolina School of Medicine

10:45-11:05 A.M. Coming Together Around Military Families
Speaker: Dorinda Williams, Licensed Certified Social Worker - Clinical, ZERO TO THREE

11:05-11:25 A.M. Utilization of Psychological Health Services by Military
Families and Children
Speaker: Daniel M. Harris, PhD, Associate Director, CNA Health Research and Policy

11:25-11:55 A.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: Stephen Xenakis, MD, Brigadier General, USA (Ret.)

11:55 A.M.-12:55 P.M. LUNCH (Promenade Room, Lobby Level)

12:55-1:45 P.M. EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

12:55-1:05 P.M.
Chair: Mary Keller, EdD, President and CEO, Military Child Education Coalition

1:05-1:25 P.M.
Speaker: Eric Waldo, JD, MEd, Deputy Chief of Staff for U.S. Secretary of Education
Arne Duncan

1:25-1:45 P.M.
Speaker: Barbara Thompson, Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense Office of
Family Policy/Children & Youth

1:45-3:05 P.M. COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR MILITARY CHILDREN

1:45-1:55 P.M.
Chair: Valerie Maholmes, PhD, Program Director for the Social and Affective Development / Child Maltreatment and Violence Research Program, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

1:55-2:15 P.M. FOCUS Project for Military Families
Speaker: Patricia Lester, MD, Jane and Marc Nathanson Family Professor, Director of FOCUS (Families OverComing Under Stress) Project, Co-Director of the Welcome Back Veterans UCLA Family Resilience Center and the Medical Director of the Child and Family Trauma Psychiatry Service, University of California at Los Angeles Semel Institute

2:15-2:35 Talk, Listen, and Connect with Military Families
Speaker: Jeanette Betancourt, EdD, Senior Vice President for Outreach and Educational Practices, Sesame Workshop
2:35-3:05 P.M. Workshop Participant Discussion
Moderator: Robert Gritz, PhD, Vice President, CNA Health Research and Policy

3:05-3:20 P.M. BREAK

3:20-4:40 P.M. LEADERSHIP TO MAKE IT HAPPEN

3:20-3:30 P.M.
Chair: Woodie Kessel, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General,
United States Public Health Service (Ret.)

3:30-4:30 P.M.
Panel:
Peg Barratt, PhD, Dean of the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences George Washington University
Maria Cuomo Cole, Chair of the Board, Help USA
Alan Guttmacher, MD, Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health
Kathryn Power, MEd, Director, CMHS, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
Barbara Thompson, Director, Office of the Secretary of Defense Office of Family Policy/Children & Youth

4:30-4:40 P.M. Questions and Answers

4:40-5:10 P.M. SERVING THEIR NATION, SERVING THEIR CHILDREN
Katherine McGrady, PhD, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, CNA
Woodie Kessel, MD, MPH, Assistant Surgeon General, United States Public Health Service (Ret.)
Sarah L. Friedman, PhD, Research Director, Health Research and Policy, CNA