Kathryn Palmer-House
Extension Associate
2007
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Current Activities
Current Professional Activities
Katie serves as the Senior Instructor for the Cornell Family Development Training and Credentialing (FDC) Program at the Empowering Families Project. In that role, she trains Cooperative Extension educators and human service educators in New York State to instruct the FDC curriculum and prepare workers to earn the Cornell FDC credential. She also provides training and technical assistance to FDC coordinators in seventeen other states with established or impending FDC systems. Over the past year her professional activities have included:
- Coordinating and co-facilitating twice-yearly FDC Instructor’s Training Institute with the Cornell Empowering Families Project team
- Planning and co-facilitating the first annual FDC State Coordinators' Meeting in Atlanta, GA
- Assisting the project director with FDC outcomes research
- Presenting FDC research findings at state and national conferences
- Providing technical assistance to FDC instructors and portfolio advisors through quarterly newsletters, quarterly update meetings and individual consultations.
Current Research Activities
In 2007, Katie assisted the Project with data collection and analyses related to the FDC research study, "How and why do family development programs differ from conventional family support programs?"
Katie is also currently coordinating survey research on demographic characteristics of program participants attending NYS FDC courses from October 2007 through September 2008.
Biography
Biographical Statement
Dr. Katie Palmer-House is the Senior Instructor with the Cornell Family Development Training and Credential (FDC) Program. The FDC, a strengths-based, interagency training and credentialing program from frontline family workers, is offered in communities across New York State under the leadership of the Cornell Empowering Families.
With Claire Forest, she is co-author of the Empowerment Skills for Family Workers Instructor's Manual (2003) and the Empowerment Skills for Leaders Handbook and corresponding Instructor's Manual (2002).
Her academic interests include studying the impact of strengths-based training on frontline family workers and how adult developmental learning contributes to outcomes of increased self-efficacy and empowerment for families and frontline family workers.
Education
Ed,D. 2006 -Teachers College, Columbia University (Adult Learning and Leadership)
M.A. 1992- Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY (Counseling and Community Psychology)
B.A. 1984- Western Connecticut State University, Danbury, CT (Psychology)
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Courses Taught
In 2007, Katie coordinated and co-facilitated the following FDC-related technical trainings:
- February and July 2007 four-day FDC Instructor's Training Institutes in Ithaca (40 participants)
- March, June, and October 2008 Instructor's Update Meetings in Ithaca, New York City, Troy and Rochester, NY (80 participants)
- 1st Annual National FDC State Coordinators' Network Meeting, Atlanta, GA (25 participants)
Publications
Palmer-House, K. (2007). The perceived impact of strengths-based family worker training: Workers' learning that helped empower families. Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services (In press).
Forest, C. & Palmer-House, K. (2003). Empowerment Skills for Family Workers: Instructor's Manual. Ithaca, NY: Family Development Press.
Forest, C. & Palmer-House, K. (2002). Empowerment Skills for Leaders Instructor's Manual. Ithaca, NY: Family Development Press.
Forest, C. & Palmer-House, K. (2002). Empowerment Skills for Leaders: A Leader Handbook. Ithaca, NY: Family Development Press.