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Dr. Crowley is an Associate Professor at Yale School of Nursing in the Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Specialty Masters Program. She also practices as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner at Yale New Haven Hospital, Pediatric Primary Care Center. In her capacity as a consultant, Dr. Crowley is a member of the Leadership Team of Healthy Child Care Connecticut, a federally funded project through the US Department of Health and Human Services and linked to the Healthy Child Care America Campaign. Her research, publications, community activities, and professional involvement for more than 15 years has focused on improving health and developmental outcomes for children and their families in out-of-home settings. She co-founded the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners' Child Care Special Interest Group, and she served on the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care. Currently she is serving as Chair of the Technical Panel: Health Concerns Related to Social Environment and Child Development for the Maternal Child Health Bureau publication Stepping Stones to Using Caring for Our Children: National Health and Safety Performance Standards: Guidelines for Out-of-Home Child Care Programs.
Promoting child and family health and development in early care and education.
Child care health consultation
Health Services in Greater New Haven day care centers: A survey. 1987-1988
Linking child care and health: An exploratory study of child care directors' and health professionals' perceptions of consultation and collaboration. 1996-1998
Primary Care Center- Yale New Haven Hospital
Training for the Health Consultant Role in Child Care Settings. (panel presentation). National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners 17th Annual Nursing Conference on Pediatric Primary Care, San Diego, CA, March 10, 1996
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton Spotlights Early Learning and Healthy Child Development. (panel presentation). Trinity College, Hartford, CT, January 28, 1998
Nursing Consultation to Child Care Programs (invited presentation). Region III Child Care Conference, Chid Care Bureau, Philadelphia, PA, June 5, 1998.
Research in Health Consultation: Implications for Regulations. (invited presentation). Healthy Child Care America: Partnerships to Promote Quality Child Care. Health Systems Development in Child Care/Community Integrated Service Systems Grantee Meeting, Washington, D.C., July 29, 1998.
Impact Studies. (panel presentation). Healthy Child Care America: Quality Child Care in the New Millenium/Community Integrated Service Systems Grantee Meeting. (USDHHS MCHB) Rockville, MD, May 21, 1999
Working with National Standards to Improve State Initiatives: Healthy Child Care Connecticut: Quality Assurance through Regulatory Review/Change. (panel presentation). Healthy Child Care America/Community Integrated Service Systems Grantee Meeting. (USDHHS MCHB) Rockville, MD, September 11, 2000.
Healthy Expectations: Health Advocacy for Connecticut's Children: Improving the Quality of Child Care through Child Care Health Consultation. (panel presentation). Connecticut Commission on Children. Legistlative Office Building, Hartford, CT. January 19, 2001.
American Academy of Nurse Practitioners' State Award for Excellence, 1991
Who's Who in American Nursing, 1991, 1993-94, 1996-97
Who's Who in American Education, 1993-94.
National Association of Pediatric Nurse Associates and Practitioners (NAPNAP). Child Care Special Interest Group - Co-chair, 1993-1998
Liaison to American Academy of Pediatrics Early Childhood, Adoption, and Dependent Care Committee, 1994-1998
Media Spokesperson on Child Health for Sigma Theta Tau International.
1998 media Guide to Health Care Experts.
Sigma Theta Tau International and the Johnson & Johnson Pediatric Institute, Think Tank: Investing in Maternal-Child Health: Defining Nursing Contributions. (invited participant). Coconut Grove, Florida, January 2002.
National Child Care Consultants Network Meeting, National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, National Resource Center for Health and Safety in Child Care, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Arlington, VA.
October 1993
Consultant - Centers for Disease Control. Child Care Health and Safety Action Plan, Atlanta GA.
March 1994
Consultant - Pre-planning meeting for National Health Forum on Linking Health Care and Child Care. Cational Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health Care. Arlington, VA.
January 1995
Consultant - Pre-planning Meeting for White House Conference on Child Care, Washington DC.
June 1997
Consultant - Healthy Child Care Connecticut - Connecticut Health Systems Development in Child Care Program. Funded by US Dept of Health and Human Services, Maternal Child Health Bureau, Community Integrated Service Systems Grant. Connecticut Head Start State Collaboration Office.
June 1997-present
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