NW Children’s Fund presents

Childhood Adversity and the Developing Brain
Using Neuroscience to Inform Effective Interventions

Update!
Although the Forum is now fully booked, please let us know if you'd like to be contacted if we have a seat open up, or receive a link to the event video next week.  Send an email to events@nwcf.org with your name, organization, and contact info (email, address and phone). 
Thank you so much for your interest!

Please join us
for conversations about how a new perspective on ACEs 
can inform strategies for healing children and building resilience

Friday, March 27th
Registration: 11:30am
Program: Noon to 2:00pm
Box lunch provided

Featuring:
Dr. Kate McLaughlin
Keynote Speaker, Moderator
Assistant Professor of Child Clinical Psychology, University of Washington 

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Study kicked off a surge of research to inform child welfare interventions. Dr. Kate McLaughlin's cutting-edge work now reveals that different qualities of ACEs (e.g., violence vs. deprivation) result in distinctly different impacts on neural development.

About Dr. Kate McLaughlin:
Katie McLaughlin is a child clinical psychologist and psychiatric epidemiologist with interests in the effects of the childhood social environment on brain and behavioral development in children and adolescents. She has a joint Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and in Chronic Disease Epidemiology from Yale University and is currently an Assistant Professor of Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington.  Dr. McLaughlin's research seeks to identify psychological and neurobiological mechanisms linking childhood experiences of trauma, violence, and social disadvantage to the onset of child and adolescent mental disorders.  She has identified a variety of neurodevelopmental mechanisms that underlie the relationship between exposure to adverse environments in childhood and the subsequent onset of psychiatric disorders, including elevated emotional and physiological reactivity to stress, poor emotion regulation skills, and disruptions in structural and functional brain development.  Dr. McLaughlin’s current research includes several projects examining the impact of child maltreatment on the development of physiological stress response systems and the development of brain systems involved in emotional reactivity and emotion regulation.  Dr. McLaughlin is also involved in the development and evaluation of interventions aimed at preventing the onset of psychiatric disorders in children and adolescents. She is currently working with the Boston Public Schools to develop a stress-reduction intervention aimed at preventing the onset of anxiety and mood disorders in high school students.

Tickets are $15.00 (Box Lunch Included)

Although the Forum is now fully booked, please let us know if you'd like to be contacted if we have a seat open up, or receive a link to the event video next week.  Send an email to [choose CB or VW email - not two emails] with your name, organization, and contact info (email, address and phone).  Thank you so much for your interest!