Degrees

Ph.D.    University of Washington, Seattle, WA, August, 2000
                       Major Area: Developmental Psychology              
                       Minor Area: Child Clinical Psychology
M.Ed.   University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, May, 1990
B.A.     Abilene Christian University, Abilene, TX, August, 1988

Recent Post-Graduate and Continuing Education

Graduate Certificate in Infant Mental Health, UW School of Nursing, June, 2005

Certificate in Human Development, Family Services, Bellevue, WA, August, 2004
(Human Development I & II, and a Year of Infant Observation)

• Certificate of Mastery, Basic Course DIR®/Floortime^TM Model, I&EC Training Course, June, 2008
• Regulatory Sensory Processing Disorders, Infant & Early Childhood Training Course, June, 2008
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health Disorders: A Psychopharmacology Update. UW SSW, May, 2005
• Getting Down and Dirty with State Budgets, Kids Count Workghop, March 2003
• Using Census Data, Kids Count Workshop, March 2002
• Introduction to ArcView, Using GIS in policy, Kids Count Workshop, December, 2001
• FrameWorks Advanced Communicaions Training 201, Kids COunt Workshop, December 2001