Children and Families

Children and Families Experts

  1. Darlene C Sansone
    Darlene C Sansone
    Job Extension Educator
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    Job Extension Educator
    Areas of expertise
    • Kinship Care
    • Relatives as Parents Program
    • Smart Choice Smart Use Health Insurance Literacy
    • Financial Literacy
    • Family Strengths
    • Early Care and Education
    • Parenting Education for Custody, divorce, and Truancy
    • Strengthening Families: Bringing the Protective Factors to Life in Your Work
    • Better Kid Care Professional Development for Early Care and Education
    • Mental Health First Aid for Adults Working with Youth
    • QPR Gatekeeper training- Suicide prevention
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  2. Matthew Kaplan, Ph.D.
    Matthew Kaplan, Ph.D.
    Job Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
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    Job Professor, Intergenerational Programs and Aging
    Areas of expertise
    • Developing & evaluating intergenerational initiatives in diverse settings.
    • Training Extension educators and other professionals in intergenerational programming.
    • Establishing intergenerational strategies for civic engagement and environmental design.
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  3. Jackie Selby
    Jackie Selby
    Job Administrative Support Coordinator
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    Job Administrative Support Coordinator
    Areas of expertise
    • Office Manager for Better Kid Care
    • Administrative Support for Budgets / Financial
    • Online Courses (through On Demand - Better Kid Care's online learning management system)
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  4. Daniel Francis Perkins, Ph.D.
    Daniel Francis Perkins, Ph.D.
    Job Professor of Family and Youth Resiliency and Policy
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    Job Professor of Family and Youth Resiliency and Policy
    Areas of expertise
    • -Dissemination and Implementation Science
    • -Fidelity and Adaptation
    • -Evaluation: Process and Impact
    • -Youth and Family Resiliency
    • -PROSPER Model for implementing evidence based programs
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  5. Elise Gurgevich, PhD, MPH, CHES
    Elise Gurgevich, PhD, MPH, CHES
    Job Assistant Director of Programs
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    Job Assistant Director of Programs
    Areas of expertise
    • Nutrition Links
    • Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP)
    • Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP-Ed)
    • Family Well-Being
    • Food Safety & Quality
    • Health & Wellness
    • Leadership and Community Vitality
    • Vector-Borne Disease
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  6. Sanford S. Smith, Ph.D.
    Sanford S. Smith, Ph.D.
    Job Teaching Professor of Forest Resources
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    Job Teaching Professor of Forest Resources
    Areas of expertise
    • Youth and Natural Resources Education
    • Forest Stewardship
    • Natural Resources Volunteerism
    • Private Forestland Management
    • Connecting Youth with Nature
    • Forest Dendrology and Botany
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  7. Cynthia Pollich, MS Ed
    Cynthia Pollich, MS Ed
    Job Extension Educator: Food, Families, & Communities
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    Job Extension Educator: Food, Families, & Communities
    Areas of expertise
    • Early Childhood Education
    • Family Strengths
    • Mentoring Coaching
    • Parenting
    • Stress Trauma Mental Wellness
    • Food Families and Communities
    • Behavioral Health, Substance Misuse
    • Kinship Care
    • Relatives as Parents Program
    • Mental Health First Aid
    • QPR
    • Farm Stress
    • Health Literacy
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  8. Rozalia Horvath
    Rozalia Horvath
    Job Extension Educator, Food, Families, and Communities
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    Job Extension Educator, Food, Families, and Communities
    Areas of expertise
    • Dining with Diabetes - Type 2 Diabetes
    • Healthy Aging - Alzheimer's Disease
    • Financial Literacy and Management
    • Health Insurance Literacy
    • Lifelong Improvements through Fitness Together (LIFT)
    • Mental Health First Aid
    • QPR
    • Relatives as Parents Program (RAPP) - Kinship Care
    • Walking and Cancer Prevention
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  9. Amber Hughes
    Amber Hughes
    Job Extension Educator: Food, Families, and Community
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    Job Extension Educator: Food, Families, and Community
    Areas of expertise
    • Mental Health First Aid
    • QPR- Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention
    • Farm Stress
    • Thrive Parenting
    • Smart Choice Smart Use Health Insurance Literacy
    • Lifelong Improvements through Fitness Together (LIFT)
    • Everybody Walk Across Pennsylvania & Walk By Faith
    • Dining with Diabetes
    • Healthy Aging
    • Let’s Cook
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  10. Chi Catalone
    Chi Catalone
    Job Extension Educator, Food, Families, and Health, Nutrition Links Supervisor
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    Job Extension Educator, Food, Families, and Health, Nutrition Links Supervisor
    Areas of expertise
    • Nutrition Links Supervisor. Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education (SNAP ED), Farm Stress, Mental Health First Aid, QPR Gatekeeper Suicide Prevention, Alzheimer's Healthy Aging, LIFT, Mental Health First Aid, Substance Use, EXCITE, Everbody Walk Across PA
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