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RCCP Staff Profiles

 

TCI Faculty

Michael Nunno, D.S.W., is a Senior Extension Associate with the FLDC, and the principal investigator of the Residential Child Care Project. Dr. Nunno has published in the Child Protective Services Team Handbook, as well as in Children and Youth Services Review; Child Abuse and Neglect: An International Journal; Children and Society; Protecting Children; and he was editor of the Journal of Child and Youth Care's dedicated issue on institutional maltreatment.

Martha J. Holden, M.S., is a Senior Extension Associate with the FLDC and the director of the Residential Child Care Project. As project director, she participates in the development, implementation, and evaluation of TCI in residential child care organizations; a program in TCI for Family Care Providers; and training programs in violence prevention, the Investigation of Institutional Maltreatment, and Institutional Assessment. These programs are offered throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Russia. Ms. Holden has published in the Children and Youth Services Review, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, and the Journal of Child and Youth Care Work, and co-authored a chapter in the book, Understanding Abusive Families.

Greg Wise, M.A., who formerly worked as a residential child care supervisor and with the developmentally disadvantaged and mentally ill, is an extension associate with the FLDC. He delivers TCI training and updates nationally and provides technical assistance to residential facilities throughout New York State.

Thomas J. Endres, M.A., is an extension associate with the FLDC. Mr. Endres has 20 years of experience in residential and group care and has worked as a coordinator of group care, a therapist in residential treatment facilities, and an educateur. He provides TCI training, updates, and technical assistance for the Residential Child Care Project.

TCI Staff

Eugene Saville, A.As., is the administrative assistant for the Residential Child Care Project. He is responsible for scheduling training programs, handling registration, and coordinating materials for all of the RCCP training programs. In addition, he oversees the web site and data base and provides information and assistance to the public in regard to the many programs of the RCCP.

Kristen Carlison, supports the data management needs of the RCCP. Within these duties she manages the data needs of TCI's certification and testing system, as well as TCI implementation projects. She also has responsibilities for the project's quarterly reports, budget proposal, and proposal development.

Alissa Burns, works for the Residential Child Care Project in administrative services. She assists the RCCP by setting up hotel contracts for New York State and national trainings, arranging media services, organizing logistical arrangements, entering pertinent information into a data base, mailing confirmation letters and training materials, and corresponding with participants to ensure a productive training for all.

Holly Smith, handles the processing of testing materials for RCCP training. Her responsibilities include scanning test information, mailing individual's test results, and maintaining the database. She also assists the RCCP in the preparation of quarterly reports.

TCI Instructors

Andrea Mooney, M.Ed., JD, is an original author of TCI and has been involved with the program since its inception. She has been a Special Education teacher, a law guardian, and a consultant. She is now a faculty member at Cornell Law School.

Jack C. Holden, Ph.D., is President of Mueller Holden and Associates in Ithaca, NY. Since 1986, Mr. Holden has been a full-time consultant/trainer traveling nationally and internationally to develop and deliver training programs in the human service field. Mr. Holden consults with Cornell University and co-developed the following curricula: Recovery for Staff-TCI, Cornell University, 1995, and Connecting: Essential Elements of Residential Child Care Practice.

Carla Sockwell Morgan, M.Ed., NCC, has been in the human service field for 25 years. Currently employed by The Mentor Network, she has worked in both public and private agencies as a foster care social worker, group home director, clinical coordinator, and trainer. She has worked with Cornell University since 1984 and has also presented at many state and national conferences.

I. Franklin Kuhn, Jr., Ph.D, a clinical psychologist, has worked in clinical and administrative positions with child welfare organizations for 20 years. He has served as medical school faculty and has provided consultation and training to agencies across the U.S. Dr. Kuhn has been a consultant to the RCCP since 1985.

Raymond Taylor, Msc., is a social worker currently overseeing training for Social Work Service in Scotland. Over the past 25 years he has worked with children and their families in residential and fieldwork settings. He has extensive experience in social work education and training. He holds degrees in Social Administration, Social Work and Research from the University of Stirling, and Advanced Diploma in Child Protection Studies from the University of Dundee, and a Master's Degree in Public Sector Management from the University of Strathclyde. He has been a TCI consultant since the introduction of TCI into Britain and Republic of Ireland in 1992.

Doug Bidleman, B.A., is the Senior Learning Coach for the Learning Center at Hillside Children's Center in Rochester, NY. He has over 30 years of experience providing service to children and families in a residential treatment environment. He is responsible for overseeing Hillside Children's Center Behavior Management System which addresses all aspects of crisis intervention in an effort to ensure the best practice and client and staff safety.

Nick Pidgeon, BSc CQSW, is an independent training consultant with over 20 years experience in social work. He has trained staff from social work and education agencies throughout Britain and in Russia. He is a TCI Instructor and an Associate of the Scottish Centre for Residential Child Care.

Mary Ruberti, M.S.W., is an independent training consultant with many years of experience working with emotionally disabled and mentally ill children and youth in both residential and community-based settings. This work has included the utilization of adventure-based counseling in this population in a variety of settings. Ms. Ruberti has received training from Project Adventure, Inc., a nationally recognized ABC training provider.

Beth Laddin, M.S.W., works as an elementary school social worker from Albany, NY. Previously, Ms. Laddin worked for the FLDC at Cornell as a Program Manager and as a Field Instructor. Other child welfare experience includes positions in Child Protective Services, Residential Facilities, administrative state positions, Facility Quality Assurance work, and program development.

Angela Stanton-Greenwood, M.A., M.Ed., has worked with a learning disabled population for over 20 years as a practitioner with Barnardos, and now as a training manager for the Helsey Group, England. She is a TCI and SCIP Instructor and was staff supervisor in the program that piloted TCI in England.

Sandy Paterson, DPE, DRem.Ed., is a retired Principal of High Close School in the U.K., a residential school for children who have severe emotional and behavioral problems, where implementation of TCI was first piloted in the U.K. He has been principal over 10 years, and has worked in residential child care throughout the U.K. for over 25 years, including working with young offenders in secure settings.

Howard Bath, Ph.D., has worked for ever 20 years in child and youth care settings. Dr. Bath is Director of the Thomas Wright Institute in Canberra, Australia, which provides program development, research, training, and consultancy services. He has researched and written about behavior management and physical interventions.

Zelma Smith, LMSW Child Welfare Consultant and Trainer, was also the former Director of Program Development at the Child Welfare Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work experience includes training in recruitment and preparation and selection of foster and adoptive parents, residential treatment, child abuse and neglect and conference and meeting planning. She is the chairperson for the National Association of Black Social Workers National Kinship Task Force Committee and a member of the National Kinship Advisory Committee, Child Welfare League of America, and a TCI instructor with Cornell University.

Johnnie Gibson, M.S.W., MSSc CQSW, is an independent trainer in Northern Ireland specializing in residential care. His doctoral research is on children in secure accommodation in Northern Ireland. He has published on the recent history of residential child care in Northern Ireland, on competence in child care practice, and on the LSI.

Richard Heresniak, is the Lead Crisis Counselor at the Astor Home for Children, a 75-bed residential facility for severely emotionally disturbed children, ages 5-13, located in Rhinebeck, NY. He handles crisis intervention work and is the primary TCI trainer for the facility. Mr. Heresniak worked his way up to this position, starting out as a Teacher Assistant in the Astor Learning Center, followed by Crisis Intervention and childcare worker in the RTC and RTF units. He has been trained in TCI since 1989.

Craig Bailey Craig is a Recreation Therapist at Crestwood Children's Center, an affiliate of the Hillside Family of Agencies, located in Rochester, NY. He has been working with young people in residential care since 1996, and has been with Crestwood since 2000. Craig has been the primary TCI trainer for new employees at Crestwood during this time, and currently work alongside the Learning Institute at the Hillside Family of Agencies to deliver TCI training to new employees from all of the service affiliates.

Andrea Turnbull Andrea has 15 years experience working with young people in residential treatment settings. Her 14 year tenure at a residential psychiatric center shaped her views on working with youth in crisis as she moved among the agency in positions such as direct care worker, milieu coordinator, program director, and ultimately training director. Andrea became a TCI trainer in 2001 when her agency first began training TCI. Andrea, a licensed mental health counselor, is currently Clinical Coordinator at Carlton Manor, Inc., a non-profit agency providing therapeutic residential group home services for children in St. Petersburg, Florida.