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APPENDIX A

The Early Head Start Research Consortium was established in 1996 to provide a forum for researchers and program staff of the funding agency (the Administration on Children, Youth and Families), local programs, local research investigators, and the national evaluation contractor to work together in carrying out the mandate for conducting the national evaluation and local research studies with the new Early Head Start program. Consortium members include the following institutions with the key contact persons.

Administration on Children, Youth and Families

Commissioner's Office of Research and Evaluation
    Rachel Chazan Cohen, 202-205-8810
    Helen Raikes, 402-486-6504

Head Start Bureau
    Judie Jerald, 202-205-8074
    Esther Kresh, 202-205-8115

National Evaluation Contractor

Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., Princeton, New Jersey
    John M. Love, 609-275-2245

Center for Children and Families, Teachers College, Columbia University
    Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, 212-678-3369

Early Head Start Research Programs

Child Development Inc. Early Head Start, Russellville, AR
    Jana Gifford, 501-968-6493

Venice Family Clinic Children First Early Head Start, Venice California
    JoEllen Tullis, 310-664-7903

Clayton/Mile High Family Futures, Inc. Early Head Start, Denver, Colorado
    Charmaine Lewis, 303-355-2008, x250

Family Star Early Head Start, Denver, Colorado
    Lereen Castellano, 303-477-7827

Mid-Iowa Community Action, Inc. Early Head Start, Marshalltown, Iowa
    Kathie Readout, 515-752-7162, x152

Project EAGLE Early Head Start, Kansas City, Kansas
    Martha Staker, 913-281-2648

Community Action Agency Early Head Start, Jackson, Michigan
    Mary Cunningham DeLuca, 517-784-4800

KCMC Early Head Start, Kansas City, Missouri
    Mary K. Ross-Harper, 816-241-4240, x137

Educational Alliance Early Head Start, New York, New York
    Audrey Neuhaus, 212-780-2300, x427

Family Foundations Early Head Start, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    Laurie Mulvey, 412-661-9280

School District 17 Early Head Start, Sumter, South Carolina
    Anita E. Kieslich, 803-775-0539

Northwest Tennessee Head Start, MacKenzie, Tennessee
    Pam Castleman, 901-364-3228

Bear River Early Head Start, Logan, Utah
    Sarah Thurgood, 435-755-0081

Early Education Services Early Head Start, Brattleboro, Vermont
    Mary Moran, 802-254-3742

United Cerebral Palsy Early Head Start, Fairfax County, Virginia
    Denise Mitchell, 703-360-2060, x225

The Children's Home Society of Washington Families First Early Head Start, South King County, Washington
    Carolyn Marsh, 253-850-2556

Washington State Migrant Council Early Head Start, Yakima Valley, Washington
    Enrique Garza, 509-837-8909

Local Research Universities

Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
    Shavaun Wall, 202-319-5800

Iowa State University, Ames, IA
    Carla Peterson, 515-294-4898

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
    Catherine Snow, 617-495-3563

Medical University of South Carolina
    Richard Faldowski, 843-876-1247

Michigan State University
    Rachel F. Schiffman, 517-353-5072

New York University
    Mark Spellmann, 212-998-5968

University Affiliated Programs of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR
    Mark Swanson, 501-682-9900

University of California, Los Angeles
    Carollee Howes, 310-825-8336

University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
    Robert N. Emde, 303-315-7114

University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS
    Judith J. Carta, 913-321-3143

University of Missouri at Columbia, Columbia, MO
    Kathy Thornburg, 573-884-5550

University of Pittsburgh
    Carol McAllister, 412-624-7778

University of Washington, College of Education
    Joseph Stowitschek, 206-543-4011

University of Washington, School of Nursing
    Susan Spieker, 206-543-8453

Utah State University
    Lori A. Roggman, 435-797-1545



 

 

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