Holly Hatton

Currently Funded

• Cultivating Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators (CHIME) for Teachers and Families
• Cultivating Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators (CHIME): Evaluating the Use of Mindfulness and Compassion to Promote Early Head Start/Head Start Education Staffs' Well-Being
• Learning Begins at Birth
• RISE with Insects (Resilience Ignited through Science and Ethics)
• TransformEd: Transforming the Early Childhood Education Workforce

Completed

• Child Care Essentials: Choosing Quality Child Care in Nebraska
• Child Care Provider Handbook Redesign
• Coach Approach: Sustaining High-Quality Mathematical Learning in Early Childhood Settings
• Cultivating Healthy Intentional Mindful Educators (CHIME)
• Evaluating Psychophysiological Mechanisms of Early Childhood Teachers' Stress Resilience and Their Relevance for Preschoolers' Self-regulation
• HSSCO Needs Assessment
• Mindfulness in Early Care and Education
• Read for Resilience: Supporting Children after Disasters with Storybooks
• Resource Toolkit to Support the Wellness of Extension Employees Following a Natural Disaster

Only CYFS-housed projects are included in the network. Please contact Dr. Hatton to inquire about additional research projects.

• Exploring ways to help those who help others in the wake of natural disasters
• Grand Challenges Catalyst project aims to strengthen early childhood workforce — and positive results for children
• Grand Challenges research effort leverages STEM to inspire climate action
• Interdisciplinary study leverages technology to assess preschool teachers’ resilience
• Mindfulness training available to Brazilian educators through CHIME
• Nebraska Extension early childhood team develops quality child care guide
• Research aims to strengthen Head Start, Early Head Start educators’ well-being
• Resource toolkit enables Nebraska Extension personnel to Reach Out for Wellness
• ‘Coach Approach’ builds preschool teachers’ capacity to foster mathematics reasoning