I have held appointments both as a Senior Research Associate and a Senior Extension Associate at Cornell University's Family Life Development Center since 1980 working on a variety of research and outreach projects examining the impact of stress, trauma and violence on children, youth and families. Since 1991 I have been involved in the application of research based prevention and intervention strategies for the US Army's family program providers. I am currently serving as the Principal Investigator and Project Director for the Center's Department of Defense projects. These projects provide technical assistance, training, development of educational resources and evaluation support to military installations worldwide. Military project staff work with the US Army Family Program staff at headquarters, region and installation to assess and mitigate risk and to promote well-being and resilency in the military community. My current research interests include the impact of deployment on military families with an emphasis on the effects on children, the effectiveness of home visitation programs with at risk families to prevent child and spouse abuse and the methodology and strategy of evaluating program outcome measures for multi-site programs. I received my PhD in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University in 1973. Before returning to Cornell, I served as a pediatric psychologist at the Yale Child Study Center (New Haven) and at the Special Children's Center (Ithaca).