{"id":4640,"date":"2021-11-30T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T16:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/?page_id=4640"},"modified":"2021-11-30T12:57:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T17:57:45","slug":"parenting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/virtual-gatherings\/parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting during Periods of Uncertainty and Unrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join the gathering of experts, parents, educators, and advocates in raising equity among our youth and to leverage evidence for action. This conversation will be focused on how the syndemic of COVID-19 and racism is operating in the lives of parents and what the evidence tells us about the experiences of parents of color. We lift up the strengths and uniqueness of parents of color at this time as we seek to answer:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What do parents say during these times of uncertainty and crisis?<\/li>\n<li>How do we talk to children and parents from a clinical perspective?<\/li>\n<li>How do we empower parents to parent and what are the considerations for parenting girls and boys of color, particularly for mothers of boys of color?<\/li>\n<li>How can policies and systems be changed to provide more wraparound services during dual crises of racism and COVID-19?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hosted by: Wizdom Powell, PhD, MPH (Director of the Health Disparities Institute, University of Connecticut and President, APA Division 51) With speakers: Wendi S. Williams, PhD (President, APA Division 35 and Dean of the School of Education, Mills College) Chuck Hollister, PhD (APA Division 43 and CEO of the Missouri Psychological Association) Shauna Cooper, PhD (Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience and Director of Strengths, Assets, &amp; Resilience (StAR) Lab, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Daniel Singley, PhD., ABPP (Division 51 and Director of the Center for Men&#8217;s Excellence) Anthony Gay, MSW, Father &amp; Social Work Supervisor, DCF<\/p>\n<p> Sponsored by the UConn Health Disparities Institute, American Psychological Association Division 51 (Psychological Science of Men &amp; Masculinities), APA Division 35 (Psychology of Women), Division 43 (Couple &amp; Family Psychology), #EquityFlattensTheCurve initiative and APA Children, Youth, and Families Office<\/p>\n<p>\t<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parenting During Periods of Uncertainty &amp; Unrest October 1, 2020\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l0dy4Of_23o?start=1464&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" data-load-mode=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tResources<br \/>\n\t<\/h2>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/02703149.2019.1622901\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analyzed Selfie: Stereotype enactment, Project, and Identification among Digitally Native Black Girls<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Wendi S. Williams &amp; Anissa L. Moody<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Women-and-Girls-of-African-Descent-Chapter-3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Women and Girls of Black\/African Descent<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Wendi S. Williams, PhD<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/educate.bankstreet.edu\/occasional-paper-series\/vol2017\/iss38\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Let&#8217;s say a Word About the Girls<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Wendi S. Williams<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1547688X.2017.1412002\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Becoming Strong Enought to Hold Their Stories: Emotionally Responsive Educator Preparation<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Wendi S. Williams &amp; Lesley Koplow<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2020\/12\/Beneath_the_Masks_factsheet.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/plugins\/bb-plugin\/img\/pixel.png\" alt=\"\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/plugins\/bb-plugin\/img\/pixel.png\" alt=\"\"><\/noscript><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>\n\t\tPanelists<br \/>\n\t<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-0\">Shauna Cooper, PhD<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-0\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<strong data-wp-editing=\"1\">Shauna Cooper, PhD,<\/strong> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/ShaunaCooper-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 232px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 232\/300;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/ShaunaCooper-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\"><\/noscript>Shauna M. Cooper is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Strengths, Assets, and Resilience (StAR) Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a RTI University Scholar at the Center on Social Determinants, Risk Behaviors and Prevention Science. Dr. Cooper received her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Michigan. Her research examines racial and cultural contexts of development, with a specific focus on African American children, adolescents, and families. Dr. Cooper&#8217;s areas of expertise include: 1) how race-related experiences are related to health and wellbeing; 2) the cultural context of parenting; and 3) community-level risk and protective factors. Her recent work examines contextual and psychosocial factors associated with African American fathers&#8217; parenting and involvement. Dr. Cooper&#8217;s research has been funded by several agencies and organizations (National Science Foundation; National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development) and published in a number of scientific journals. Dr. Cooper also is committed to the translation of her research, including informing the development of culturally specific family-focused prevention programming.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-1\">Wendi S. Williams, PhD<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-1\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/wendi_williams_faculty_190x285_mills-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/wendi_williams_faculty_190x285_mills-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"285\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 190px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 190\/285;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/wendi_williams_faculty_190x285_mills-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"285\"><\/noscript><\/a>Wendi S. Williams, PhD,<\/strong> is<\/p>\n<p>the President of APA Division 35 Psychology of Women&Acirc;&nbsp; and Professor and Dean of the School of Education. Dr. Williams work centers on the development, implementation, and evaluation of school and community-based health and educational interventions that promote health and well-being among youth, their families, and the educational and mental health practitioners who will work with them. Through her scholarship and research activity, she has articulated an intersectional approach to psycho-social spiritual intervention for middle school girls. The foundations of this work have extended to reflective-intervention to facilitate leadership development among diverse women and Black\/African women, specifically. Recent scholarship includes, &#8220;Frenemies in the Academy: Relational Aggression among African American Women Academicians&#8221;, and a Special Issue on &#8220;Feminist Approaches to Interventions with Black Girls and Women&#8221; (June 2019), for the journal Women and Therapy. She is currently working on a new book, Black women at work: On being masked, muted, and muzzled.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-2\">Chuck Hollister, PhD<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-2\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Chuck-Hollister-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Chuck-Hollister-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"188\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 170px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 170\/188;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Chuck-Hollister-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"170\" height=\"188\"><\/noscript><\/a>Dr. Chuck Hollister, PhD, <\/strong>is a licensed psychologist in private practice and CEO of the Missouri Psychological Association. Under his leadership the Missouri Psychological Association was named Division 31&#8217;s Outstanding SPTA for 2019. As a therapist, Dr. Hollister has worked with over 25,000 thousand children and their families. Most of these children were seen as being a danger to self or others. He is a past Karl F. Heiser Presidential award winner for his work in state advocacy. One of his most important projects was demonstrating that children, who were being sent to state hospital for months at time, could be treated locally in residential settings so they could remain close to family and attend local schools. Dr. Hollister has built strong relationships with Missouri&#8217;s regulatory agencies, which led to the decision by the state&#8217;s Medicaid program to fund psychology interns. Currently Dr. Hollister is working with the Missouri&#8217;s Medicaid program on how to best transition foster children&#8217;s care into Missouri&#8217;s managed care system. Dr. Hollister is a member of Division 31 and 43, APA&#8217;s Director of Professional Affairs group, and APA&#8217;s Advocacy Coordinating Committee. Dr. Hollister was APA&#8217;s an invited guest and presenter last week at a virtual town hall on the relationship between state associations and APA.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-3\">Anthony Gay, MSW<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-3\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Fathers-love-Anthony-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Fathers-love-Anthony-1-141x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 141px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 141\/300;\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-disparities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/260\/2021\/11\/Fathers-love-Anthony-1-141x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"141\" height=\"300\"><\/noscript><\/a>Anthony Gay<\/strong> is currently employed by the CT, Department of Children and Families (DCF) and has been a supervisor for the agency the past 14 years.<br \/>\nFrom July 2010 &#8211; September 2012 Anthony served as a&Acirc;&nbsp; Supervisory Child Welfare Trainer- at the Department&#8217;s Training Academy &#8211; where he developed and revised curriculums and facilitated various in-service and pre-service trainings for agency staff&Acirc;&nbsp; including Partners in Change, Human and Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking, Cultural Competency, Adolescent Trauma, and Fatherhood Engagement to name a few.&Acirc;&nbsp; This is where he work around fatherhood began.&Acirc;&nbsp;Since then, Anthony has been working to improve communities by advocating for equality for fathers involved in all systems, while holding fathers and agencies accountable for full family engagement.<br \/>\nAnthony was appointed by the Commissioner of (DCF) to serve as the agency representation on the Statewide CT Fatherhood Initiative (CFI).<br \/>\nFor the last 10 years, Anthony has been&Acirc;&nbsp;the voice of equality at DCF and has served as the Region 5 Fatherhood Engagement Leadership Team Lead (F.E.L.T). Anthony has developed fatherhood presentations focusing on the impact fatherlessness for providers and community providers, etc.<br \/>\nAnthony is the creator of the Dads Matter Too movement, which encompasses the Dad Matter Too Community Day, Conference, Golf Tournament, Fatherhood Community Calendar, and Facebook page that boast over 160,000 followers from around the world.<br \/>\nAnthony has received numerous awards for his work with father and families, and continues to focus on improving the lives of children and families in the State of CT.<br \/>\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--label-4\">Daniel Singley, PhD, ABPP<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" id=\"fl-accordion--icon-4\"><i>Expand<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:fl-builder\/layout --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join the gathering of experts, parents, educators, and advocates in raising equity among our youth and to leverage evidence for action. 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