Workforce Development
The Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development (GUCCHD) is committed to ensuring people with disabilities, special health care, or behavioral needs—as well as individuals who are experiencing risk factors such as poverty, homelessness, or trauma—are served by a well-trained workforce. Creating future leaders, scholars, and providers to address the interests and needs of people with developmental disabilities across the lifespan is the driving force for all our educational programs.
Through a variety of formats, our Center provides exemplary workforce development on a number of topics including early childhood, developmental disabilities, mental health, advocacy, cultural and linguistic competence, social and behavioral international development programming, monitoring and evaluation, participatory research, and leadership.
Our interdisciplinary workforce development programs are designed to meet the needs of state, tribal, and territorial leaders, as well as students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, service providers, social and behavior change practitioners, and program administrators in the Washington DC metropolitan region, across the country, and throughout the world.
The Center’s ongoing technical assistance, community and clinical services, and our applied research and evaluation contribute to the content expertise delivered through our workforce development.
For more information about our workforce development capacity contact us at: gucchd@georgetown.edu
Selected Activities
Behavioral Health
- Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
- TA for Early Childhood Systems of Care through National Training and Technical Assistance Center for Child, Youth, and Family Mental Health (NTTAC)
Cultural and Linguistic Competence
Early Childhood
- Georgetown University Graduate Certificate in Early Intervention Program
- Early Childhood Intervention Professional Development Center
- Contemporary Practices in Early Intervention
- Adapting an Evidence-Based Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Model (ECMHC) for DC Preschool and PreK a project funded by Fight for Children adapted the ECMHC model developed by Georgetown’s Center for Child and Human Development for implementation in early childhood classrooms in DC public charter schools.
Gender and Health
- The Institute for Reproductive Health, a Gender and Health Strand center, sits on the Steering Committee of the Learning Collaborative to Advance Normative Change. Made up of a network of experts committed to facilitating collaborative knowledge- and skills-building between organizations and individuals working on adolescent sexual and reproductive health norm-shifting interventions, the Learning Collaborative is working to enhance collective efforts, build knowledge, and develop shared tools to strengthen effective social norm theory, measurement, and practice in the social norms field.