Maureen Zalewski, PhD, is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology and licensed clinical psychologist in Oregon, specializing in the training and delivery of Dialectical Behavior Therapy for mothers who have borderline personality disorder and who have young children. Dr. Zalewski is part of the Center's Training Core, for which she will conduct a pilot study examining how maternal mental health, opioid use, parenting stress, and parenting quality are interrelated.

Camille Cioffi, PhD, is a Research Associate at the Prevention Science Institute at the University of Oregon and is the lead on pilot project 2. Dr. Cioffi's research focuses on improving parenting practices and access to services for parents with substance use disorders.

Kate Mills, PhD, is an assistant professor of Psychology, University of Oregon. Dr. Mills is a developmental cognitive neuroscientist who studies how we learn to navigate our social world and understand others. She is leading the pilot project evaluating mentalizing-related cognitive processes and capacities in mothers with a history of opioid use. 

Jean Kjellstrand, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Counseling Psychology and Human Services Department at the University of Oregon. Her research focuses on the development, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to support corrections-involved parents and their children both during incarceration and after release. Dr. Kjellstrand is conducting a pilot study of a brief, cognitive behavioral, telehealth intervention for corrections-involved parents with a history of opioid use.

Yoel Everett is a doctoral student in the UO Clinical Psychology program and a member of the Science and Treatment of Affect Regulation Team (START) Lab and lead of a pilot project. He is interested in transdiagnostic aspects of parental psychopathology, specifically parental emotion dysregulation and its influence on parenting and child mental health outcomes. His current work focuses on integrating Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills with Parent Training, as part of an effort to develop an integrated parent mental health + parent training intervention for families in which a parent has psychopathology.

Olivia Doyle is a graduate student in OHSU’s Clinical Psychology doctoral program and the lead on a pilot project investigating an adaptive virtual mindfulness intervention with social support for pregnant and early postpartum people with a history of substance use. Olivia’s research interests include intergenerational transmission of psychopathology and perinatal intervention.

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Kate Hails, PhD earned her doctorate in clinical and developmental psychology from the University of Pittsburgh in 2021, after completing her clinical internship at Oregon Health & Science University with a focus on supporting children with special health needs. Kate’s research program has two prongs, one focused on understanding parenting and family management in the context of depression, poverty-related stressors, and other ecological influences on child development and wellbeing, and the other on investigating how parents engage with a brief, evidence-based parenting intervention, the Family Check-Up. Her overarching career goal is to expand families’ access to evidence-based behavioral supports, particularly for families who have historically faced barriers to accessing services, in settings such as pediatric primary care and early childhood education.

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Mandy Skoranski, PhD, is a postdoctoral fellow and instructor at the University of Oregon and is trained as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Her research interests center around the intergenerational transmission of mental health symptoms in high-risk parent and child dyads with a focus on biobehavioral dynamics. She is the PI of a CPO P50 pilot grant investigating substance use trajectories over the early postpartum period and their associations with suicidal thoughts and behaviors, emotion regulation, and daily parenting stress.

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Maria Schweer-Collins, PhD, is a research assistant professor at the University of Oregon, affiliated with the Prevention Science Institute and HEDCO Institute. Her research focuses on applied research methodology in prevention science, with a particular focus on developing actionable research to support parents and children who have experienced early adversity. Maria is leading a CPO pilot study that follows mothers who are affected by prior justice-system involvement and their children ages 14-17. This study will explore generational cycles of substance use with the goal of improving interventions to support families affected by substance use and justice-system involvement.

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Andrea Imhof is a doctoral student in the Clinical Psychology program at the University of Oregon, working under the mentorship of Dr. Phil Fisher. As a part of her work in the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention (SNAP) Lab and the UO Learning Lab, Andrea is exploring how parent-child interactions influence child language development. She is currently a part of the FIND evaluation team, specifically focused on using video-coding techniques to measure changes to the quality of caregiver-child interaction following the FIND intervention. This project also includes an assessment of child language outcomes, evaluating how increased "serve and return" interactions may influence children's receptive and expressive language development.