Lourie Center Annual Report (2021)

40 YEARS OF TRANSFORMING LIVES OF

YOUNG CHILDREN, FAMILIES AND PROFESSIONALS

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Dear Lourie Center family, friends and supporters,

All good and energizing greetings to you and all you are connected to! Looking back, 2022 was a milestone year for Adventist HealthCare’s The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness. Emerging from the pandemic, we were again able to enjoy in-person activities (carefully) and gather in groups to work, to collaborate and to celebrate.

And celebrate we did! We joined together on Oct.11 for our 40th anniversary (1982-2022) with a sparkling gala! It was 1982 when leading experts in the fields of pediatrics, psychiatry, nursing, education, social work and psychology gave birth to the Center as part of a six-year National Institutes of Mental Health study. The well-known figures of that study, Dr. Reginald Lourie, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton and Dr. Stanley Greenspan were joined by leading women, including Dr. Georgia deGangi, Dr. Mary Robinson and many others to establish The Lourie Center as a beacon of light amidst the early childhood trauma storm. Today, the Center has an impact on more than 4,000 children and families each year across the Washington, DC region through five early childhood mental health and education programs.

Not only did we look back in 2022, but we advanced our future with the launch of The Lourie Center’s Champions for Children, a women-led initiative, to raise awareness and funds to build child and family resiliency and counter the impact of early childhood trauma. As part of the Gala, The Champions honored several heroes (see “In the Community” below) among us who tirelessly work to counter the crisis in child mental health and whose voices echo in Congress, in universities and research centers, in early childhood classrooms, and in the intimacy of the parent-child relationship.

In 2022, we also forged new partnerships with the corporate community through Boston Properties (now BXP) and RADA USA (now Leonardo), who give generously of their time, talent, and treasure. We are so very grateful that they walk right in step with us.

On behalf of all the Center, our gratitude is best expressed in the words of The Lourie Center’s 3rd Grand Marshal of our Little Heroes Parade & Fair and long-time supporter, Dr. Carol Weyland Conner: “In great respect and gratitude. The work you [help us] do to make our world a better place by helping children grow straight and tall is a wonder.”

One family, growing together,

Jimmy Venza, PhD

Licensed Psychologist

Executive Director

PROGRAMS

Head Start Program

Federally funded program for early intervention with at-risk children 0–5 and pregnant mothers. The Lourie Center’s program served more than 432 children and families in 2022.

Parent-Child Clinical Services Program

Clinic served 324 children and their families in 2022.

Therapeutic Nursery Program

Specialized preschool program — the only one of its kind in Maryland — served 20 children and their families from Montgomery and Prince George’s counties in 2022.

The Lourie Center School

Elementary school served 28 students in 2022

The program provides academic instruction, integrated mental health care, speech and language therapy and occupational therapy.

Partnership with Montgomery County Infants and Toddlers Program (MCITP)

The Lourie Center partners with the MCITP, which served 5,000 children from birth to age 4 and their families in 2022. MCITP offers early intervention services to assist families with supporting their children’s developmental and special needs.

University Affiliations

The Lourie Center trains social work, education and psychology graduate interns and externs from local and national universities such as:

• Catholic University School of Social Work

• Chicago School Department of Psychology

• Divine Mercy School of Psychology

• Gallaudet University School of Psychology

• George Washington University School of Psychology and School of Applied Psychology

• Howard University Department of Psychology

• Howard University School of Social Work

• University of Maryland School of Social Work

• Smith College School of Social Work

Thanks to you, The Lourie Center raised $1,787,385 in 2022.

Because of you, we invested $1,787,385 in hope.

That hope is “breaking the cycle of adversity” for children, giving them hope to live their best life. That hope is lifting the helpers — their parents, their teachers and their clinicians — who lift these children.

2022 PHILANTHROPY REVENUE BY SOURCE

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

AS OF YEAR-END 2022

Daniel L. Cochran, FHFMA, FACHE Board Chair President, Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center

Todd Cohen, FACHE, EDAC Vice Chair

Associate Vice President, Facilities and Real Estate Adventist HealthCare

Gwendolyn Mason, EdD Board Secretary

Associate Superintendent, Acting Office of Special Education Montgomery County Public Schools

Martha Velez Board Treasurer Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center

Brenda Jones Harden, PhD. Alison Richman Professor, Children & Families Director, Prevention & Early Adversity Research Laboratory University of Maryland

Josh Jacobs Founder and Managing Director Jacobs Health Consulting

Robert C. Wehner Jr. Senior Vice President M&T Bank

Victorien Singhe President, Head Start Policy Council Parent, Volunteer

Kandi McFarland, MBA, BSN, PMH-BC Vice President, Behavioral Health Service Line

Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center

$1,787,385

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Jimmy Venza, PhD Executive Director

Jill Brown, LCSW-C Director, Parent-Child Clinical Services Program

Angela Card, MS, ECE-LPA Director, Early Head Start Program

James Cowan, MsEd Director, The Lourie Center School

Anna Curtin, PhD Director, Therapeutic Nursery Program

Alan Ezagui, MHCA Director of Philanthropy

James F. Herrera, MD Medical Director

Stella Akello Operations Director

Myesha Carter, DEd, CCC-SLP

Director, Infant & Toddler’s Program-MC

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2022 DONORS

$500,000 +

The Bainum Family Foundation

$250,000–$499,999 Stranahan Foundation

$100,000–$249,999

Philip L. Graham Fund

The Alexander & Margaret Stewart Trust

$50,000–$99,999

Anonymous

Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

J. H. Walker Legacy Foundation

$25,000–$49,999

BXP

Healthcare Initiative Foundation

$10,000–$24,999

Adventist HealthCare

Michael & Amy Aquilino

Rebecca B. Bennett

Walter A. Bloedorn Foundation

Cigna Civic Affairs

Deloitte Financial Advisory

Hana Education Partners

The Charles Y. Kaneshiro Charitable Remainder Trust

M&T Charitable Foundation

National Basketball Players Association

National Basketball Players Association Foundation

$5,000–$9,999

Comcast

Carol Weyland Conner

Robert & Arlene Kogod Foundation

Leonardo DRS, formerly RADA USA

Teaching Strategies, LLC

Turner Construction Company

Drs. Brigit & Jimmy Venza

Widerlite Coaching and Consulting

Win Commercial Group

$2,500–$4,999

American Real Estate Partners (AREP)

Armstrong, Donohue, Ceppos, Vaughan & Rhoades, Chtd.

Maureen “Mo” Bryant

Lynne Carbone & Associates, Inc.

Diana S. Eisenstat

David & Eve Farber

Graystone Consulting Morgan Stanley

King & Spalding

OneDigital

Tracye Polson, Ph.D.

Jose Hernandez & Ann Roda RADA USA (now Leonardo DRS)

Nancy Reller, Sojourn Communications Ziegler

$1,000–$2,499 Anonymous

Bonnie C. Arze

Hillary & Tom Baltimore

Celeste S. Basier

George, Morris & Christine Bregman

Jackie & Elan Burman

CalvertHealth Medical Center, Prince Frederick, MD

Todd Cohen & Rabbi Baht Weiss

Catherine G. Crockett

Lisa & Porter Dawson

Zemina Divecha

DECO Recovery Management, LLC

Forrester Construction Company

Julie Grohovsky & Craig Hoover

Louisa & Steven Hollman

Amanda & Joe Kasper, on behalf of Ervin Graves Strategy Group

Wendy J. Kisch

The Jacobs Family: Josh, Marcy, Abby, Sam & Murphy

S. Kann Sons Co. Foundation, Inc.

Minal & Dhirenda Morarji

Justin & Shoshana Murray

National Capital Optimist Club

Jeff & Jill Pargament

Lee Christian Parker

Alison & James Pearce

APCO Worldwide

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Ridgewells Catering

Larry Rosenblum, in memory of Fran Brenneman; in memory of Luis Diaz; in memory of Sidney Kramer; in memory of Jerry Cohen; in memory of Howard Silverman

Saydam Properties Group

The Walker Group

Lorna P. Wint

Lauri & Jeffrey Zell

The William Zell Family Foundation, Inc.

$500–$999

Amazon Smile Foundation

Susan Armstrong

Denis F. Cioffi, Ph.D. & Ellen R. Hornstein

Maureen Dymond

Alan Mark Ezagui, in memory of Mark Nathan Ezagui

Kathryn Falk

Drs. Carol & Thomas Garvey

Mark E. Griffin

Beth & Kim Griffith

Christina Hill

Jayne Hopps

Betty Ann & Gilbert Kaplan

Jaqie & Mathew Keady

Jean Mastrandrea

Meta (Facebook)

Amanda & Joe Perry

Lynda Pontecorvo

Kristen Pulio

Marjorie Sonnenfeldt

Karp Wessel Family Fund

H. Marcel Wright

$100–$499

A 1 Lifestyle Fitness, LLC

The Blackbaud Giving Fund

Les Bland

Boston Properties, Inc.

Amanda Bower

Karen Bowne

Michelle C. Brennan

Colleen Brown

Jill Brown

Kim Bryden

Carrie Carroll

Denise M. Chandler

Anjali Chaturvedi

Seleem & Caroline

Choudhury

Anna Curtin, Ph.D.

Eursala David-Sherman

Kelli Anne Forbes

Kimberly A. Gaines

Mary Jane Gallagher

Susan & Richard Glover

Karen & Robert Garman

Michael S. Gold, M.D.

Roger & Joan Golden

Divya Gupta

David & Marlene Gustafson

David Gustafson

Lucas Han

Brooke Thayer Harris

Jennifer and Craig Harrison

Hart Health Strategy, LLC/ Morgan Hart

Marianthi N. Hatzigeorgiou

Adrian Humphreys

Lisa Isenman

Brendan Johnson

Evelyn Kays-Battle

Amy Kelleher

William Kenworthy

Jesse Kohler & CTIPP, in memory of Dan Press

Jeannette S. Knight

Cynthia Kossally

Alan & Agnes Leshner

Michele Lester

Nancy Letsinger

Vimala Lingam

Ben & Christine Lourie, in memory of Reginald S. Lourie

Florence Lourie

Judith Mandola & Family

Gwendolyn J. Mason, Ed.D.

Sujata Massey

Mathematica Policy Research

The McBride Family

Jill E. McGovern, Ph.D.

Mark Mohan & Gina Capra

Amy Munneke

James M. & Virginia W. Newmyer Family Fund

Andrew R. Nicklas

Joy Osofsky, Ph.D.

Joann R. Raysor

Deneen Richmond

Kacy Rollins

Jonathan Sachs

John and Sue Sackett

Susan Silber

Eursula David-Sherman

John & Bonnie Staffier

St. Mary’s Catholic Church

Ruth Sullivan

Ryan Thelin

United Way of Central Maryland

Kimberly Walker-Vogel

Katie Wilson

Barbara Witt

Saphna Yathiraj

Julia Wessel

Ayanna Williams

Charles & Nancy Wolfson

Elena Wright-Aguilar

$1–$99

Deanna Aghguiguian

Gail P. Blatt

Diane Castiglione

Michelle L. Cousineau

Barbara D. Gholz

Harris Teeter

Hilda Hernandez & Reggie Nash

Carolyn Horton

The Howes Family

Michelle Levister

Bernard F. Locraft

Andrew Marsh

Margaret Morrisey

Alba Munoz

Lydia Stockton

Crystal Thompson

Tamieka & Donte Thomasson

Esther Ungar

Every effort was made to list all donors accurately. We apologize in advance if we missed including your name or what we have listed is inaccurate. Please contact Alan Ezagui at AEzagui@LourieCenter.org with any questions. Thank you.

TRAINING, EDUCATION AND CONSULTATION

We provide evidenced-based training, education and consultation in infant and early childhood development and mental health for parents, providers and policymakers.

The Lourie Center Therapeutic Preschool Program partners with Teaching Strategies in a Workshop on Promoting Regulation for Teachers and Students

The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) holds a conference each summer known as the Professional Learning Institute (PLI) that focuses on best practices for training leaders in early childhood education.

Two leaders from the Therapeutic Preschool Program (TPP) Anna Curtin, PhD and Marianela Rodousakis, LCSW-C teamed up

with Breeyn Mack, Vice President for Teaching Strategies at this past years NAEYC Conference.

Ms. Rodousakis, Dr. Curtin and Ms. Mack led a workshop focusing on how to recognize trauma in preschoolers and how to use relationship-based strategies to regulate oneself in the preschool classroom. The workshop also taught effective strategies and practical self-care plans to mitigate the impact of performing such challenging work.

Participants were able to learn classroom and student-management strategies developed by Noni Educational Solutions.

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Prince George’s County Psychologists Learn About the ACE Study

Diane King-Shaw, PhD, the Clinical Director of The Lourie Center School, partnered with Frank Kros, MSW, JD, founder of the Kros Learning Group to educate psychologists with Prince George’s County Public Schools about the neurobiological impact of trauma on children and the ACE stud5y on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs).

The CDC-Kaiser Permanente ACEs study is one of the largest investigations of the correlation between childhood abuse and neglect and household challenges, as well as later-life health and well-being. In the training, psychologists learned ways that school staff can therapeutically support students who have experienced ACEs.

The ACE study has significant clinical impact in early childhood intervention, showing that not only are ACEs predictive in a population of increased mental health challenges such as depression and alcoholism but also predictive in a population of physical health challenges such as asthma, obesity and coronary heart disease.

Through the years, The Lourie Center has provided training to psychologists with Prince George’s County. Dr. King-Shaw and Jimmy Venza, PhD, Executive Director, The Lourie Center, previously have presented on supporting traumatized children in schools and the power of parent-child relationships, teacher-student interactions and how the staff can improve educational and developmental outcomes.

Deeper Dive intro Trauma Treatment: Child Parent Psychotherapy (CCP)

As a part of The Lourie Center’s SAMSHA National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN) grant, ten clinicians from the Parent-Child Clinical Services Program are participating in an 18-month collaborative to learn a world-class treatment modality.

Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) is an evidenced-based family intervention for children ages 0-6 and their caregivers who have experienced at least one traumatic event. Clinicians will participate in three, week-long learning sessions with colleagues from the Mid-Atlantic region.

In addition, participants receive clinical supervision and twice-monthly consultation calls led by Chandra Gosh-Ippen, Ph.D, a co-developer of the CPP model from the University of California at San Francisco and Sheryl Jefferson, LCSW-C, a co-trainer from Kennedy Krieger Institute.

This intensive training process provides an immersive experience for clinicians to expand their knowledge in trauma, psychodynamically informed practice and supporting families in their journey to healing. Following the completion of this program, The Lourie Center will be the only agency in the county to offer this intervention.

RESEARCH

“Adventist HealthCare's The Lourie Center for Children's Social & Emotional Wellness is launching the Trauma-Informed Preschool Supports (TIPS) ECHO in conjunction with the University of New Mexico’s Project ECHO for Education team. TIPS ECHO empowers early childhood educators who support traumaimpacted children in their classrooms across the country. By enhancing early childhood educator knowledge, skills and efficacy, the number of early childhood professionals with the capacity to support children and families facing adversity increases exponentially.

While involved with the learning community, participants in the TIPS ECHO program

participate in ongoing case consultations with specialists in the fields of psychology, social work and early childhood. The TIPS ECHO team provides educators with a safe and supportive learning environment that encourages growth, while acknowledging the challenges this work presents.”

Clarissa I. Franco, MSpEd Senior

Program

Manager,

Project ECHO®, Education Team, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center

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Trauma-Informed Preschool Supports

(TIPS) ECHO:

A Collaboration with Project ECHO

Created in 2003 to deliver specialized medical knowledge to rural health care providers, Project ECHO builds communities of practice through free virtual mentoring and learning. Through ECHO, professionals learn and share best practices in health care, education and more.

Backed by over 500 peer-reviewed research articles, ECHO has proven effective across disciplines and geographies to reduce disparities, strengthen health systems and drive collaborative solutions for local priorities.

Project ECHO’s Early Childhood Education programs focus on engaging early childhood professionals working in a variety of roles in support of children and families.

The Trauma-Informed Preschool Supports (TIPS) ECHO program develops important skills for early childhood educators to improve teaching efficacy when supporting children facing adversity. Educators benefit from a didactic curriculum that addresses common challenges that arise in classrooms among children who have trauma histories. These challenges include but are not limited to physical and verbal aggression, inattention, self-regulation, tantrums, refusal, social isolation and symptoms of anxiety. The TIPS ECHO supports educators by improving the early childhood professionals’ knowledge, skills, competencies and/or practices with a trauma framework.

TIPS: Integrating Research and Practice

This one-year pilot is also designed as a research study to evaluate the effectiveness of TIPS.

The Lourie Center’s Dr. Jimmy Venza,

TIPS co-coordinators Gwen Campbell, LCPC, and Dr. LaTrice Dowtin and the ECHO Research team collaboratively designed the pilot study combining each institutions’ expertise and experience. In addition, to implement TIPS, The Lourie Center assembled a multi-disciplinary team of early childhood mental health and education experts from the Center’s Therapeutic Nursery Program, including Mariana Rodousakis, LCSW-C/ Assistant Director of Prince George’s County, Michelle Brennan, Education Coordinator, Aaleah Williams, Assistant Director for Montgomery County, Tathiana Sanchez, Administrative Assistant/Assistant Teacher and child-psychiatry consultant, Dr. Malena Banks.

The TIPS pilot will span the fall of 2023 through summer 2024. Participants will participate in 16 sessions of case consultation and didactic curriculum presentations with early childhood specialist colleagues from across the country with the TIPS ECHO HUB team. Participants will complete surveys to measure changes in self-reported empathy toward their students and reactions to hypothetical classroom situations, as well as measuring child-teacher relationship engagement and interaction. Finally, participants may attend a focus group to report details about how they are applying what they learned from the program in their day-to-day work with children and families.

The findings hold the promise of generalizing results to early childhood educators across the country. They also potentially create the evidence for scaling TIPS ECHO early childhood educators, nationally and internationally, for the benefit of future generations of teachers and students and their families.

Circle of Security Classroom Approach: Pilot Research to Help Counter Health and Education Inequity

The Lourie Center had the great privilege to partner with Dr. Jude Cassidy, Sayako Awao and their University of Maryland colleagues, Prince George’s County Public Schools administrators and teachers and Circle of Security International leadership to conduct pilot research aimed to supporting teachers and young students facing adversity. The Lourie Center team was led by our project lead/research coordinator Max Siegel, Dr. Amber ValentineMinion, Jill Brown, Dr. Jimmy Venza and the Circle of Security Classroom trained Facilitators/Lourie Center clinicians: Adriana Cuoto Silva, Stephanie Nti, Renee Stewart and Marianela Rodousakis.

There is an ever-expanding body of scientific research showing that “secure base” relationships with adults can buffer the negative effects of adversity on child development and leaning.

This research extends this work to the teacherstudent relationship. This pilot examined how teacher participation in the Circle of SecurityClassroom Approach (2022 – 2023 school year), a reflective program that strengthens teachers’ abilities to function as “secure bases” for students, impacted student well-being.

Two key findings included a reduction in student conduct problems and lower levels of child emotional dysregulation, with the focus on students from communities of color who were facing adversity and experiencing challenges in the classroom. Importantly, while many teachers represented communities of color and reported high rates of stress and fatigue, they reported feeling supported and more effective by participating in the COS-Classroom approach. Considering these promising results, we look forward to pursuing further opportunities to provide the Circle of Security in the Classroom to additional schools and to conduct larger scale research.

Circle of Security®

Teacher Attending to the Child’s Needs

IN THE COMMUNITY

40th Anniversary Gala Honors Community Heroes

On October 12, 2022, The Lourie Center for Children’s Social & Emotional Wellness in partnership with The Lourie Center’s Champions for Children hosted a 40th anniversary gala to celebrate the important milestone and to honor the heroes among us who work tirelessly on behalf of children who have experienced trauma.

Honored at the event were:

• Congressman David Trone, Outstanding Public Service Award

• Congressman Jamie Raskin, Outstanding Public Service Award

• Senator Chris Van Hollen, Lifetime Champion Award

• Kai-lee Berke, T. Berry Brazelton Award

• Bruce Perry, MD, PhD, Reginald S. Lourie Award

• Cynthia Germanotta, Inaugural Champions for Children Award

The Lourie Center Champions for Children

A network of women who inspire, influence and leverage experience and relationships to move from awareness to action to addressing our national children’s mental health crisis supporting The Lourie Center as a model of early intervention success.

Dedicated to giving every child the possibility and potential for a full life without the scars of early childhood trauma and distress.

By supporting The Lourie Center with their time, their experience and their financial resources.

Young Professional Champions for Children

The Young Professional Champions for Children membership was established in late 2021. In 2022, there were seven new members who joined.

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Young Professionals are the next generation of leadership, the next generation of voices who care deeply about a better life for children experiencing adversity and trauma. They have committed to leverage their network, their social media platforms, their entrepreneurial and their fundraising experiences to support The Lourie Center’s work and expand access to care for more children and families.

Champions for Children 2022 Impact

In 2022, The Lourie Center Champions for Children raised $485,000. This was their impact:

46 children and families removed from the wait list, with 548 evaluation and therapy sessions provided to patients and families since April 2022.

Support market adjustment for Lourie center salaries in 2022 to support retention of 15 clinicians in the Parent-Child Services Program.

Supported Circle of Security in Prince George’s County offered by 22 teachers serving 200+ children and The Trauma Informed Preschool Support (TIPS) ECHO program, which launched in January 2023 to serve 30 teachers and up to 600 kids.

The Lourie Center hired two clinicians with initial funding for salaries covered by Champions for Children

Champion members, from left: Diana Eisenstat; Nancy Reller; Maureen Dymond; Maureen Bryant; Paula Widerlite; Lynne Carbone; Helen Dellheim; and Gwen Mason.

CORPORATE PARTNERSHIPS

In 2022, two companies, BXP and RADA USA (now Leonardo DRS) established corporate philanthropy partnerships with The Lourie Center. The partnerships were a commitment of direct financial support of Lourie Center programs and services and a commitment of in-kind, volunteer support. This support included a commitment made by BXP and Leonardo DRS employees who donated their time for coat drives, back to school supplies, meals for staff appreciation and holiday projects, such as pumpkin wagon painting.

Our heartfelt thank you to the following people who made these partnerships possible:

• Michael J. Holland, VP, Construction

• Pete Otteni, EVP, Co-Head of the Washington, D.C. Region

• Jake Stroman, EVP, Co-Head of the Washington, D.C. Region

• Claudia Scozia, VP, Construction

• Saara Brown, VP, Leasing

• Lillian Angom, Director, Marketing & Communications

• Bill Watson, President

• Max Cohen, Chief Executive Officer

We celebrate you for your love, support and partnership.

Here are some pictures of the various activities throughout 2022.