UConn CSCH

UConn researchers discusses the development of a mobile phone application by researchers and adolescents to provide information about sexual and reproductive health in an engaging, culturally appropriate way.

Guests: 

Resources

Christina Ross Faculty Page

Christina Ross Email: [email protected]

Ross Pro Ash Innovations

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH) website

Produced, directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

The Zuri App: educating Black female adolescents about sexual and reproductive health was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in September 2025.

Connecticut researchers discuss how school districts planned to support social emotional supports in the aftermath of COVID-19, and what they did. 

Host: Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests: 

Resources

CSCH Social Media Links:

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

Pandemic funding and social-emotional supports in Connecticut schools was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in February 2025.

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Kathleen Williamson of UConn and Tracy Stefano, East Hartford Public Schools (East Hartford, CT), introduce the Connecticut WSCC Partnership and its collaboration with the East Hartford Public Schools.

Read a transcript of the podcast.

Connecticut WSCC Partnership website

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH) website

UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health website

East Hartford Public Schools website

WSCC Blueprints

BlueSky, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Threads

Produced, directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

A discussion about Feeling Well: The Science and Practice of Emotional Well-Being, a UConn pop-up course on emotional well-being.

Hosts:

Amy Gorin, Vice Provost for Health Sciences and Interdisciplinary Initiatives at the University of Connecticut

Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications, UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:           

• Sandra Chafouleas, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor and Neag Endowed Professor, UConn Department of Educational Psychology; Co-Director of the Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

Organization Websites

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health (CSCH)

UConn Student Health and Wellness

Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL)

UConn M3EWB Network (Mechanisms Underlying Mind-Body Interventions & Measurement of Emotional Well-Being)

Social Media Links

@uconncsch on Instagram

@UConn CSCH on Linkedin

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Produced by Sandra Chafouleas and Beth Russell.

Directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only. Feeling Well: The Science and Practice of Emotional Well Being was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in December 2023.

Copyright © 2023 by the University of Connecticut. All rights reserved.

A discussion about an initiative in Connecticut that uses restorative practices to reduce juvenile justice involvement and improve school mental health outcomes.

Host:   

Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:           

• Kris Wraight, Restorative Justice Facilitator and Trainer

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

The Connecticut School-Based Diversion Initiative

Organization Websites

The Child Health and Development Institute

Kris Wraight Website

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Social Media Links

@CHDICT on Facebook

@CHDICT on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Produced, directed, and edited by Helene Marcy. This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only. Restorative Justice and the School-Based Diversion Initiative was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in April 2023.

Copyright © 2023 by the University of Connecticut. All rights reserved.

Description: CSCH interviews Christina Cipriano about her work in Emotion Science

Host:     Sandra Chafouleas, Co-Director of the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guest:   Christina Cipriano, Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of the Education Collaboratory at Yale. (Former Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.)

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

Organization Websites

The Education Collaboratory at Yale

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

The Urban Assembly

Trajectory of Hope

SEL programs mentioned:

Second Step

RULER

PATHS

SEL Research mentioned:

Social and Emotional Learning Observation Checklist for Elementary School (SELOC-ES)

Project Flourish

The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions: analyzed 213 USB SEL studies that took place through the end of 2007.

The State of Evidence for Social and Emotional Learning: A Contemporary Meta-Analysis of Universal School-Based SEL Interventions

Social Media Links

Chris Cipriano on Twitter

Yale Child Study Center on Twitter

Yale Child Study Center on Facebook

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence on Twitter

Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence on Facebook

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Produced and directed by Sandra Chafouleas. Edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

Why Social and Emotional Learning Matters - the Work of Chris Cipriano and Team was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in April 2023.

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The founders of the UConn Center for Advancing, Research, Methods, and Scholarship in Gun Injury Prevention talk about the impact of gun violence on kids’ health and the policies and practices that can address gun violence prevention.

Host: Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:

Jennifer Dineen, Associate Professor in Residence, UConn School of Public Policy

Kerri Raissian, Associate Professor, UConn School of Public Policy

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

Websites

InCHIP Gun Violence Prevention Research Interest Group

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

UConn School of Public Policy

READI Program in Chicago

Extreme Risk Protection Orders

How Sandy Hook Changed the Legal Environment" Panel Discussion Hosted by UConn ARMS

Jaclyn Schildkraut

Social Media Links

@ARMS_GVP_RIG on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Produced, directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

The Impact of Gun Violence on Kids’ Health was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in March 2023.

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CSCH Postdoctoral Scholars Jessica Koslouski and Kathleen Williamson describe the CSCH WSCC Blueprint tools geared to helping schools implement the WSCC model.

Host: Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:

• Jessica Koslouski, CSCH Postdoctoral Scholar

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

WSCC Blueprints

WSCC: Think about the Link Project (Policy. Practice, and Process)

WellSAT WSCC Policy Evaluation Tool

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Implementation Science

Backwards Design explained in Policy Blueprint and Practice Blueprint

Congruence Theory explained in Policy Blueprint and Practice Blueprint

Social Media Links

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

@UConnCSCH on Spoutible

Produced by Sandra Chafouleas.

Directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

- The WSCC Practice and Policy Blueprints - helping schools integrate health and learning was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in January 2023.

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Three UConn professors discuss the benefits of nature and how to get outside.

Host: Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:

• Jean Coffey, Clinical Professor in the UConn School of Nursing and CSCH Steering Committee member

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

Jean Coffey Study about Prescribing Nature

Outside Perspectives

Nature Rx at UConn

UConn Today Article about NatureRx at UConn

Connecticut Trailfinder

TrailLink (includes downloadable mobile app)

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Social Media Links

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Produced, directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

How Kids and Young Adults Benefit from Nature was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in November 2022.

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CSCH Director of Programs & Communications Helene Marcy interviews the creators of Feel Your Best Self, a toolkit that uses puppets to teach children strategies that promote emotional well-being.

Host: Helene Marcy, Director of Programs & Communications at the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Guests:

• Sandra Chafouleas, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor in UConn’s Department of Educational Psychology in the UConn Neag School of Education and Co-Director of the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

Resources

Read a transcript of the podcast

Feel Your Best Self

UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health

UConn Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry

UConn Neag School of Education

UConn School of Fine Arts

Social Media Links

Feel Your Best Self on Facebook

Feel Your Best Self on Twitter

Feel Your Best Self on Instagram

Feel Your Best Self on Pinterest

@UConnCSCH on Twitter

@UConnCSCH on Facebook

Ballard on Twitter

Ballard on Facebook

Produced, directed and edited by Helene Marcy.

This recording has been made available for informational and educational purposes only.

Puppets and Emotional Well-being: The Making of the Feel Your Best Self Toolkit was created by the UConn Collaboratory on School and Child Health and recorded in November 2022.

Copyright © 2022 by the University of Connecticut. All rights reserved.