The RCCP is administered by the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR), which is located within Cornell University’s College of Human Ecology.  The BCTR mission is to improve professional and public efforts to understand and deal with risk and protective factors in the lives of children, youth, families, and communities that affect family strength, child wellbeing, and youth development. Translational research, as defined by the College and the BCTR, is the systematic application of research findings into the development of innovative interventions, practices, and policies that may ultimately improve health and well-being. The knowledge derived from these interventions feeds future research.

Martha J. Holden, M.S., is a Senior Extension Associate with the BCTR, principal investigator and Director of the RCCP. Ms. Holden provides technical assistance and training to residential child caring agencies, schools, juvenile justice programs, and child welfare organizations throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, and Israel. She is the author of Children and Residential Experiences (CARE): Creating Conditions for Change, a program model for residential care organizations and the lead developer of the TCI System. Ms. Holden has published in the Children’s and Youth Services Review, Child Abuse and Neglect: An International Journal, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, and The Journal of Child And Youth Care Work. She has co-authored chapters in the books, Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: Developing evidence-based international practice; For Your Own Safety: Examining the Safety of High-risk Interventions for Children and Young People; International Perspectives on Inclusive Education, Volume 2, Trans-forming Troubled Lives: Strategies and Interventions with Children and Young People with Social, Emotional, and Behavioural Difficulties; Understanding Abusive Families: An ecological approach to theory and practice. Previously Ms. Holden served as an administrator overseeing the day-to-day operations of a residential treatment agency for adolescents, including its education resources.

Andrea Turnbull, L.M.H.C., is an Extension Associate with the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translation Research and Co-Director of the Residential Child Care Project (RCCP) alongside Martha Holden.  Ms. Turnbull has served as the program manager of Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) for the past decade. With over 30 years of experience working with children and staff in out of home care settings, Ms. Turnbull provides training and technical assistance in a variety of residential, juvenile justice, foster, school and community programs across the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland, and Australia. She works closely with the RCCP team to support organizations with TCI implementation and fidelity. Ms. Turnbull is co-author of the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention curriculum, Edition 7, and Therapeutic Crisis Intervention for Schools, Edition 2. Previously, Ms. Turnbull served as Clinical Director and Training Director at a residential treatment center for children and adolescents.

2021 NEWS: The RCCP Has Moved

Residential Child Care Project
Cornell University
3M207 MVR Hall
37 Forest Home Drive
Ithaca, NY 14853-4401
USA
Tel. 607-254-5210
http://rccp.cornell.edu

Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, home of the RCCP, on the Cornell University campus, Ithaca, NY.

Published with permission, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology; Paul Warchol, photographer.

Click the scroll bar below to view some of the the RCCP's highlights, from its beginning in 1974 to the present.

Thanks to the Ithaca Youth Bureau, Ithaca, NY, for granting permission to use their mural (featured above), and especially to the artists involved: Johanna Baker, Summer Bartholomew, Lori Bontempi, Leland Chapin, Jon Gowin, Barney Knewstub, John Longo, Harmony Mayhak, Tiffany Reynolds, and Keith Robbins.