Deborah Richardson

Parenting Assistant Extension Specialist

Area: Child Development and Parenting

233 HES
Stillwater OK 74078
 
Phone: 405-744-9932
Fax: 405-744-2800
debbie.richardson@okstate.edu

Educational Background:

• Promoting child/youth development and reducing risk behaviors.

• Community-based prevention programs

• Parent education and support

• Oklahoma Council for Family Relations Board 2003-2007; President 2005-2006

• Healthy Families America State Leaders Advisory Committee 2001-2004

• American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences Council for Accreditation, 2000-2002

• Certified Trainer: Healthy Families America - Family Assessment

• OSU Graduate College Summer Research Fellowship (2008) $2,000

• Outstanding Group Award, Team Leader in Outstanding Educational Program Healthy Families, Oklahoma Cooperative Extension Service (2008)

• Honor Award for Outstanding Faculty and Field Staff for Healthy Families Program, Family & Consumer Sciences Ambassadors (2006)

• Marion Jacewitz Award for Outstanding Service to Oklahoma, Oklahoma Interagency Child Abuse Prevention Task Force, 1998

• Outstanding New Professional, Oklahoma Council on Family Relations, 2005

• National Council on Family Relations

• Oklahoma Council on Family Relations

• Society for Research in Child Development

• Parent child connection programs (4 sites), OK State Dept of Health, Child Abuse Prevention Fund. ($588,765 annually)

• Child Abuse Prevention Statewide Network Coordination, OK State Dept of Health. 2004 - 2008 ($11,943 - 32,660 annually)

• Family Resiliency/Positive Child & Youth Development, Team Initiative Program (TIP) grant, OK. Cooperative Extension Service, 2006-2008 ($26,000)