Child First's Connecticut Clinical Director and National Clinical Advisor, Dr. Salam Soliman, recently co-authored an article in the Zero to Three Journal, titled Mindful Practices to Enhance Diversity-Informed Reflective Supervision and Leadership. This article explored how mindful practice can be incorporated into supervision to allow the dyad to have difficult conversation around race and diversity.
Dr. Soliman’s co-authors include Dr. Rebecca Shahmoon-Shanok, Child First Board Member and Founding CEO of Collaborations for Growth; Maria Gehl, Director of Mindfulness in Early Childhood Project Director, Zero to Three; Dr. Roseanne Clark, Professor, and Co-Director of the Infant, Early Childhood, & Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program, University of Wisconsin; Dr. Mary Claire Heffron, Clinical Director of Early Intervention Services, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland; Dr. Margaret Kerr, Assistant Professor of Human Development and Families Studies Department, University of Wisconsin; and Dr. Kandace Thomas, Senior Program Officer, Irving Harris Foundation.
