Martha Holden
Extension Associate,Sr
2007
FLDC

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Current Professional Activities
Martha J. Holden is a Senior Extension Associate with the Family Life Development Center and the director of the Residential Child Care Project. As project director, she provides technical assistance to residential child caring agencies, a train-the-trainer program in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention to residential child care supervisory staff, training programs in violence prevention, a program in the Investigation of Institutional Maltreatment, and a program in Institutional Assessment, throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Israel, and Russia. In 1975 Ms. Holden received her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Wright State University. She was the lead editor and writer in the 2001 re-development of the Center's Therapeutic Crisis Intervention curriculum in use from 1982 and the lead writer of Children and Residential Experiences (CARE): Creating Conditions for Change, a best practice model for residential care organizations. Ms Holden has published in the Children's and Youth Services Review, Child Abuse and Neglect: An International Journal, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, and the Journal of Child And Youth Care Work. She has co-authored a chapter in the book Understanding Abusive Families and For Your Own Safety: Examining the Safety of High Risk Interventions for Children and Young People. In addition to her extensive experience in training and curriculum development, Ms Holden served as an administrator of a residential child care facility overseeing the day to day operation of a residential treatment facility for children, including its education resources from 1979 - 1988. Since 1982, Ms. Holden has been studying ways to prevent the occurrence of institutional abuse of children through training, investigating and influencing organizational culture.

Biography

Biographical Statement
Martha J. Holden is a Senior Extension Associate with the Family Life Development Center and the director of the Residential Child Care Project. As project director, she provides technical assistance to residential child caring agencies, a train-the-trainer program in Therapeutic Crisis Intervention to residential child care supervisory staff, training programs in violence prevention, a program in the Investigation of Institutional Maltreatment, and a program in Institutional Assessment, throughout the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, Israel, and Russia. In 1975 Ms. Holden received her M.S. in Mental Health Counseling from Wright State University. She was the lead editor and writer in the 2001 re-development of the Center's Therapeutic Crisis Intervention curriculum in use from 1982 and the lead writer of Children and Residential Experiences (CARE): Creating Conditions for Change, a best practice model for residential care organizations.

Ms Holden has published in the Children's and Youth Services Review, Child Abuse and Neglect: An International Journal, Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, and the Journal of Child And Youth Care Work. She has co-authored a chapter in the book Understanding Abusive Families and For Your Own Safety: Examining the Safety of High Risk Interventions for Children and Young People. In addition to her extensive experience in training and curriculum development, Ms Holden served as an administrator of a residential child care facility overseeing the day to day operation of a residential treatment facility for children, including its education resources from 1979 - 1988. Since 1982, Ms. Holden has been studying ways to prevent the occurrence of institutional abuse of children through training, investigating and influencing organizational culture.