The Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) and the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) selected Dr. Emily Graybill to represent Georgia as a Children's Mental Health Champion for the 2022-2023 cycle. She will be part of a group of 10 CDC Children’s Mental Health Champions representing different states.
Dr. Graybill is a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Public Health at Georgia State University. She is also the Director of the Center for Leadership in Disability and the Program Director for the HRSA-funded Maternal and Child Health Graduate Certificate (MCHGC) program. She is on the leadership team for the Georgia Association for Infant Mental Health: Birth to Five (GA-AIMH).
Her specific interests include infant and early childhood mental health, school mental health, universal behavior screening in schools, individualized positive behavior support in early childhood and schools, and evaluating the implementation and sustainability of initiatives for underserved populations, including children with disabilities.
For Dr. Graybill’s Children’s Mental Health Champions project, she will work with state stakeholders to develop a model of an early childhood crisis response team similar to crisis response models that exist within K-12 public schools.
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Center for Leadership in Disability
The Center for Leadership in Disability (CLD) is a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, that moved to Georgia State in August 2008. CLD is housed within Georgia State University School of Public Health. The CLD is one of 67 programs in the country funded by the Administration on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Learn more at cld.gsu.edu.