Presentations
Posters
Leveraging Rural Community Partnerships: Understanding Strategies of Resilience Among American Indians.
Presented at Society for Research in Child Development (May 2025). Minneapolis, MN.
Baby PACEs: The development of the Protective). The influence of mother-reported infant development on parenting efficacy and commitment one year later.
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PACEs for Children: Overcoming Adversity and Building Resilience
TBD
(July 2023) Dublin, Ireland.
ACEs and PACEs: The development of the protective and compensatory experiences survey (PACEs).
Presented at the 15th World Congress for the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH).
(May 2016) Prague, Czech Republic.
Academic Talks
Resilience, Protective Factors, Sovereignty, and Strengths-Based Research Approaches in Rural American Indian Communities
Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development. June 2026 Incheon, South Korea
Beyond Adversity: The Full Story
Flash talk presented at Georgia Center for Developmental Science Conference (April 2026). Athens, GA
Leveraging Rural Community Partnerships: Understanding Strategies of Resilience Among American Indians
Presented at Rural Renewal Symposium (October 2024), Ardmore, OK
A Global Perspective on Adverse Life Experiences and Protective and Compensatory
Experiences: Promoting Resilience
Paper Symposium presented at the 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development.
(June 2024) Lisbon, Portugal.
Paper 1: The prevalence of ACEs in Dutch youth with emotional, behavioral, and learning difficulties and the importance of assessing protective experiences
Paper 2: The study of PACEs in Japan: Development of the Japanese version and its introductory analysis
Paper 3: Childhood and Current Experiences Build Resilience across Cultures
Positive Child and Adult Experiences as Resilience Mechanisms for Lifespan and Intergenerational Development
Paper Symposium presented at the 2023 Biennial Conference of the Society for the Study of Human Development.
(October 2023) Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Paper 1: Maternal ACEs & PACEs and Trajectories of Depression, Parenting Stress, and Infant Social-Emotional Development
Paper 2: Positive Childhood and Adult Experiences Relate to Mental Health
Community Talks
Flipping the Script: Using PACEs to Support College Students
Presented at the Student Well-Being and Accessibility Services Summit for the Tulsa Higher Education Consortium. (June 2026). Tulsa, OK
Workshops
Creating Protective and Compensatory Experiences (PACES) to Buffer the Damaging Effects of Early Life Adversity
Workshop presented at the 16th World Congress for the World Association for Infant Mental Health (WAIMH).
(May 2018) Rome, Italy.