Family-Professional Partnerships
Module 8.4: 15-Minute Summary
Here we summarize the knowledge you've gained over the previous modules with a 5-minute presentation by Suzanne Bronheim, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and a Senior Policy Analyst within the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development, in which she gives a personal reflection on what she has learned about family-professional partnerships over the last two decades.
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About Our Speaker
Suzanne M. Bronheim, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics and a Senior Policy Analyst within the Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD). As faculty within the National Center for Cultural Competence (NCCC), she helps to lead the National Partnership to Promote Safe Sleep; she previously served as the Director of the Sudden Unexpected Infant and Child Death and Pregnancy Loss Project within the NCCC for 15 years.
As a pediatric psychologist, she was director of the learning disabilities/neuropsychology service at Georgetown for twenty years, was co-director of the Tourette Syndrome Clinic at Georgetown, provided evaluation and consultation for adults with developmental disabilities, and served as the psychologist in the Pediatric Pulmonary Center, the Cystic Fibrosis Center and the renal dialysis and transplant team at Georgetown University Hospital. For over ten years, she coordinated Communities Can!—a national network of communities dedicated to using collaborative, systems integration strategies to support and serve all children and families, including those with or at risk for special health care needs.
Dr. Bronheim served as PI for a MCHB-funded research project to address racial and ethnic disparities in access to information by families of children with special health care needs and is part of research teams conducting validations studies on measures of provider cultural and linguistic competence and family-centered care. She has provided training and technical assistance related to cultural and linguistic competence to state Title V and other public health programs, health and mental health care systems, non-profit organizations, health care providers, and family advocacy and support organizations. She has also developed resources on the role of cultural and linguistic competence in infant mortality disparities, approaches to implementing cultural and linguistic competence in health promotion, and providing culturally and linguistically competent services and supports to families.
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