The Educational Care Collaborative (ECC) was created by a multidisciplinary team that includes Chris Brown, Joy Fopiano, Norris Haynes, and Eric Arzubi.
The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven is funding the ECC's work in Hamden, CT through October 2010. Our team is pursuing additional funding to continue building a home-school-community continuum of care to improve mental health services and to eliminate barriers to learning among K-12 children.
Christopher Brown, MS, is a Certified School Psychologist and a Licensed Professional Counselor. He currently serves as the Coordinator for Special Education Support Services overseeing School Psychology, Social Work, and Counseling in the Hamden Public Schools. In addition to his 15 years of experience as a school psychologist working with students from pre-school through grade 12 in public schools, he has been a part-time faculty member in the Graduate School programs for School Psychology and Counseling at Southern Connecticut State University since 996. He was also a part-time faculty member at Fairfield University in the Graduate School of Education and Allied Professions for eight years.
Joy Fopiano, EdD, is the Graduate Program and Field Site Coordinator for the School Psychology Program in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University (SCSU). This nationally certified school psychology (NCSP) program is housed in SCSU’s School of Education. In addition to program administration, field administration, and teaching, Dr. Fopiano chairs and serves on numerous program, departmental, and university-wide committees. Dr. Fopiano has been a trainer of school psychologists at SCSU for twelve years. During that time it has been her privilege to support graduate students as they move successfully from the role of student to the role of school psychologist practicing professionally in schools throughout the state of Connecticut, across the country, and internationally.
Norris Haynes, PhD, is Professor in the Counseling and School Psychology Department at Southern Connecticut State University and Founder and Director of the Center for Community and School Action Research (CCSAR). He is also a Clinical Professor at the Yale University School of Medicine Child Study Center and a member of the Zigler Center faculty. He served as Chairperson of the Counseling and School Psychology Department at Southern Connecticut State University for seven years from 2002 to 2009. Before joining the full-time faculty at Southern Connecticut State University, he was Associate Professor of Psychology, Education and Child Development in the Yale Child Study Center and Director of Research for the Yale School Development Program (SDP). He was also a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology and a faculty member of the Zigler Center (formerly Bush Center). Dr. Haynes contributed significantly to the SDP's training and dissemination activities.
Eric Arzubi, MD, is currently a Resident in Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine and plans to complete a Fellowship in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. A passion for working with children who struggle with emotional-behavioral problems and co-morbid learning difficulties prompted him to choose this medical specialty. Dr. Arzubi was just named to his second 3-year tenure on the Schools Committee of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, and he is a member of the Executive Committee of the Connecticut Council of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists. Dr. Arzubi is Chairperson of the Children's Committee of the Keep The Promise Coalition, an active Connecticut-based mental health advocacy group.
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Elisa Palmieri is completing her masters degree in School Psychology and is poised to enter her Sixth Year of graduate study in School Psychology at Southern Connecticut State University. Granted a competitive research award, a Graduate School Graduate Assistantship by the School of Graduate Studies
