The Future of Healthy Families

Deb Cassidy

Tuesday, 19 Apr 2016 at 7:00 pm – Sun Room, Memorial Union

Deborah Cassidy is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. She has served as coordinator of the university's Birth-Kindergarten Teaching Licensure Program and director of the Child Care Education Program. From 2009 until 2013 Cassidy directed the North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education in the Department of Health and Human Services. She currently serves as co-principal investigator for the state's Rated License Assessment Project at UNCG and is also President-Elect of the National Association for the Education of Young Children. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois. The Barbara E. (Mound) Hansen Lecturer in Early Childhood Education and part of the Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series
The Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series brings together insight from across disciplinary bounds to address how family is defined, the current knowledge on healthy families, and the future of the field. Reception will follow.

Established in 2001, the Hansen Early Childhood Education Lecture Series Endowment is made possible by a gift from Richard and Barbara (Mound) Hansen. The Hansens created the series to bring contemporary, issue-oriented topics on early childhood education to the College of Human Sciences.

Cosponsored By:
  • College of Human Sciences
  • Helen LeBaron Hilton Chair Endowment
  • Committee on Lectures (funded by Student Government)
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