Learn how to use the latest research-based information and resources to showcase a healthy lifestyle that is relevant for the diverse FCS classrooms of the 21st century.
Doris Houston
Associate Professor of Social Work, Illinois State University
Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2003
Dr. Doris M. Houston is an Associate Professor of Social Work at Illinois State University (ISU), and the Associate Director of the ISU Center for Adoption Studies. Her areas of specialty include foster care and adoption, culturally responsive family practice, outcome evaluation, and organizational development. Dr. Houston is the Co-Author of “Community-Centered Child Welfare Practice: Strategies for Working with Multicultural Families (in Press). Prior to joining the faculty at ISU, Dr. Houston served as an Outcome Evaluation Specialist at the University of Illinois, Center for Prevention Research and Development (CPRD). While at CPRD, she provided organizational development training and program evaluation services to 300+ youth prevention programs. Dr. Houston began her professional career with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services where she served as a Public Service Administrator, Adoption Specialist, and Foster Care Casemanager.
University of Minnesota - Saint Paul, Minnesota (other locations via video stream and interactive television)
This seminar focuses on historical and generational trauma from the perspective of American Indians and African Americans. Community and university professionals discuss cultural ways of knowing, how healing and wellness take place within families and communities, and where the science of historical and intergenerational trauma currently exists.
