Our Team
The Chicago Parent Program is led by a team of experts who care deeply about young children and their families.
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Dr. Amie Bettencourt
Dr. Bettencourt joined the CPP team in 2014. She is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and School of Public Health.
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Dr. Susan Breitenstein
Dr. Breitenstein joined the CPP team in 2009. She is Professor and Assistant Dean for Research and Innovation at the Ohio State University College of Nursing in Columbus, OH.
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Monique Daniels
Monique Daniels joined the CPP team in 2022 as the Chicago Parent Program Director of Community Partnerships.
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Brian Fitzek, MA
Brian Fitzek is a highly skilled Knowledge Translation Specialist for the Chicago Parent Program.
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Dr. Christine Garvey
Dr. Christine Garvey, an experienced child and adolescent psychiatric nurse, played a crucial role as an original developer of CPP in 2001 and remained dedicated to the program for a decade.
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Dr. Deborah Gross
Dr. Gross is currently the Leonard and Helen Stulman Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing, School of Medicine (Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences), and School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD.
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Dr. Wrenetha Julion
Dr. Julion is the Michelle and Larry Goodman MD Endowed Professor of Health Equity at Rush University College of Nursing in Chicago.
Trainers
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Michelle Daniels
Michelle has been a certified CPP group leader since 2012 and has led numerous CPP training workshops and other trainings supporting parents.
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Emily Hoppe
Emily is a certified CPP group leader, co-facilitating CPP groups in public schools and children’s mental health clinics since 2011.
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Whitney Raglin Bignall, PhD
Whitney has been a group leader for the Chicago Parent Program since 2017, and has helped to implement CPP groups in both Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.
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Rosalind Smith, LPCC-S
Rosalind contracts with Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to coach the facilitators in the greater Cincinnati area to help them successfully facilitate their groups.
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Adrian White, LCSW-C
Adrian has been a group leader for CPP since 2019 and has been training new group leaders to implement the program since 2021.