The following is a list of trainers that are able to teach outside their organization, are willing to travel to your site, and/or teach the scales online. They are all individual practitioners. Most have a short statement about their training philosophy and/or experience. Please contact our office if you have questions or need further assistance with securing training.
USA
ARIZONA
Jennifer Black, MA, SLP, IMHS
Jennifer is an enthusiastic trainer for Parent-Child Interaction scales. She has trained clinicians as well as researchers. Jennifer serves as faculty for the UC Davis Infant Mental Health Fellowship Program and works as an independent clinician and consultant.
CALIFORNIA
Kristie Brandt, CNM, RN, MSN, NP, PHN, DNP
dr.kristiebrandt@sbcglobal.net Napa
Parent-Infant & Child Institute Director, Napa; Infant-Parent Mental Health Specialist, Brazelton Institute NBO Faculty, NMT Mentor
Kristie has worked with children age 0-5 since 1974 and first learned the Feeding & Teaching Scales in 1979. She became a trainer in 1995. She has taught the Scales across the U.S. and uses them clinically, as well as in her research. Dr. Brandt considers them the premier assessment tool to guide work with young children and families. Kristie is a highly effective and powerful trainer.
Erin Dornan-Liuzzo, Psy.D., IFECHMH FPR-II
drdornanliuzzo@gmail.com Los Angeles area
Erin is a licensed Clinical Psychologist. She first learned and implemented the PCI Scales in 2013. After seeing the power of these tools with her own client families, she wanted to extend their reach and impact. Erin became an Instructor for her own staff and other professionals in the community. She is able to travel around the state, country and world to deliver this training.
Kiti Freier Randall, PhD
timeindrkiti@gmail.com San Bernardino
Dr. Kiti is a Pediatric Neurodevelopmental Psychologist and has been teaching the NCAST PCI scales since 2011.
COLORADO
Barb Deloian
specialcare@sk-sc.org greater Denver area
Chris Russell
c-a-russell@att.net greater Denver area
ILLINOIS
Sue Horner
shorner@luriechildrens.org Chicago
Amelia Miller, MS, IMHS
amelia.c.miller@gmail.com Chicago
Amelia is an Infant Mental Health & Developmental Specialist, providing clinical services at a specialty children’s hospital in Chicago. Teaching the PCI tools has provided her with a tool to share her passion for supporting and working with caregivers and their young children.
MARYLAND
Carole Norris-Shortle, MSW, LICSW
cshortle@som.umaryland.edu Baltimore
Carole has been teaching the NCAST Feeding & Teaching scales, for both clinicians and researchers since 2001. She is willing and eager to share her knowledge of how to accurately code and apply the scales to your work.
WASHINGTON
Alissa Copeland, MA
alissacopeland417@gmail.com Seattle
Alissa has worked with children and families in child welfare for twenty-one years, and was initially certified as a Parent-Child Interaction Scales assessor in 2007. Alissa utilized the scales in public child welfare for several years before becoming a Parent-Child Interaction Scales Instructor in 2015. She has been certifying professionals to utilize the scales since. Alissa values the use of these scales across disciplines as a tool to identify supportive services, benchmark milestones, and strengthen the parent-child relationship. Alissa is able to travel throughout the United States and Internationally, as well as provide certification training virtually via Zoom to support ongoing learning and professional development without the need for travel. Alissa can be reached at alissacopeland417@gmail.com.
Denise Findlay, RN, BSN, PGCert IPMH
dmfindlay1@gmail.com Silverdale
Denise has been using the Parent-Child Interaction Scales in practice and research for forty years. She has been teaching for thirty. Denise is an enthusiastic and highly skilled trainer. She is a Registered Nurse with twenty years of Public Health Nursing experience and holds a post-graduate certificate in Infant-Early Childhood-Parent Mental Health from the University of Massachusetts Boston Napa Fellowship Program. She is on faculty for the UC Davis Infant-Parent Mental Health Fellowship Program. Denise is able to teach virtually or provide in-person training if preferred.
AUSTRALIA
Cathrine Fowler, RN, RM, PhD
cathrine.fowler@uts.au Sydney, New South Wales
Faculty of Health, Tresillian Chair in Child and Family Health
University of Technology Sydney
Cathrine has extensive experience as a child and family health nurse, educator and researcher. She has been an instructor since 2008 and taught the PCI scales within Australia, China, & South Korea. She has assisted NSW Health Department implement the PCI scales in their Sustaining Families Home Visiting Program. As a researcher, PCI has been an important research tool. The PCI scales have provided an important parenting framework to assist in educating nurses about how to work successfully with parents and their infants and young children.
Beverly Allen, MN, RN, RM
beverley.allen@tweddle.org.au Melbourne, Victoria
Queen Elizabeth Centre
learning@qec.org.au Melbourne, Victoria
QEC is an Early Parenting Centre based in Melbourne, Australia. We are passionate about Parent Child Relationship Programs and facilitate Keys to Caregiving and both PCI Scales. We have a Family Partnership and strengths-based approach in our work with families and the use of the Parent Child Relationship Programs. We have trainers located in Melbourne, Wodonga (NSW/Victoria border) and Morwell (Gippsland Region) and we are able to travel around Australia to facilitate training.
Pam Stilling, RN, RM, MCHN
understandingbabies@gmail.com Mount Eliza, Victoria
Early Parenting Consultant and Educator
With over 30 years clinical experience as midwife and MCH nurse, I have taught PCR Programs throughout Australia since 2004. Learning the PCI Scales develops enhanced insight into everyday interactions and their impact on children’s developmental potential. Furthermore, you find simple and direct ways to effect improvements where needed.
Zakiyyah Muhammad AMHSW, MSW
Family Haven SA
zakiyyahmuhammad@icloud.com
CANADA
Tanya Antle, RN, PHN
tdantle@yahoo.com New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
Susan Lamb, RN, PHN
susan.lamb@nshealth.ca Middleton, Nova Scotia
Linda Brightling, MA
lindabrightling@gmail.com Toronto, Ontario
Early Childhood Therapist
JAPAN
Michie Nagayoshi, RN, PhD
mnaga1@jikei.ac.jp Tokyo, Japan
The Jikei University, School of Nursing
Dr. Nagayoshi has been teaching NCAST PCI since 2009 and was part of the first cohort of instructors in Japan. She participated in the translation of the NCAST manuals from English to Japanese and has participated in the data collection for the Japanese dataset to validate the NCAST scales.
NEW ZEALAND
Sarah Haskell, OTR, MSC, MIMH
info@infanttoddlerspecialists.com Tasman, NZ
Sarah and her colleague, Heidi Pace, MA, IMHS work as Infant Toddler Specialists in New Zealand.
PAKISTAN
Shelina Bhamani, PhD
shelina.bhamani@aku.edu Karachi, Pakistan
UNITED KINGDOM
Sue Ranger, D.Clin.Psych.
s.ranger@nhs.net Leeds, England
Ms. Ranger is a clinical psychologist working for the National Health Service. Sue has been teaching the NCAST PCI scales since 2004.