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Left to right: Mary Ann McCabe (far
left) of the Society for Research in
Child Development, convened the briefing
by (left to right) Cathy Grace, Ed.D.,
Joy Osofsky, Ph.D., and Gary Asmus,
Ph.D. Click on photo for larger view.
Cathy Grace (left) talked over ideas
with Dr. Asmus (right) and (center, from
left) Bill Ray Stokes, Ouida Forsythe,
and John Lacour, all of the Center for
Child Development, University of
Louisiana at Lafayette. Click on photo
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ECI Participates in
Congressional Briefing on Hurricanes’ Impact on Children
SEPT. 26, 2006 | The Mississippi State
University Early Childhood Institute
contributed to a Congressional staff briefing last week on the
impact of the 2005 Gulf Coast hurricanes on children.
Cathy Grace,
Ed.D., and
Elizabeth F.
Shores, M.A.P.H., were presenters at the Sept. 22
briefing, which the Society
for Research in Child Development
(SRCD) convened and which U.S. Senators Thad Cochran of
Mississippi and Mary Landrieu of Louisiana sponsored. They
described ECI’s
Rebuilding After Katrina Initiative and its
Early Childhood
Emergency Preparedness Initiative.
“The Mississippi message is that young children need specialized
care in disasters; good data and rapid analysis speed
restoration of early childhood services; and greater
collaboration by child care and emergency management is
possible,” Grace said at the briefing.
Grace is professor and director of ECI and Shores is the
institute’s senior research associate.
Joy Osofsky, Ph..D., a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at
Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center, and Gary J.
Asmus, Ph.D., MIS director for the Center for Child Development
at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, also spoke at the
briefing. Mary Ann McCabe, Ph.D., of SRCD and Martha Zaslow,
Ph.D., of Child Trends moderated the briefing.
Several organizations were co-sponsors of the briefing: the
American Educational Research Association, the American
Psychological Association, Child Trends, the National
Association for the Education of Young Children, the National
Association of School Psychologists, the National Black Child
Development Institute, and Zero to Three.
46 Blackjack Rd. / P.O. Box 6013 /
Mississippi State, MS / 39762
tel. 662-325-4836 / fax 662-325-5436
© 2004- Mississippi State University
Updated
11/22/2006
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