Putting Children First
Facilitators
Stacy D. Thompson, Ph.D., ProfessorStacy Thompson is a Professor at Southern Illinois University. She earned her doctoral degree from Iowa State University in Child Development in 1998. She is currently a faculty member in the School of Education. She is the Undergraduate Program Director and coordinates the Early Child and Child and Family Services programs. Dr. Thompson is a member of the Society for Research on Child Development and the National Council on Family Relations. Previously, she has worked in a Maternal Child Health Unit and as a Child Development Specialist. She teaches courses in human development, assessment of young children, abuse and neglect, theories of development and learning as well as other courses. Her research focuses in the areas of fathers of infants born to adolescent mothers, the father’s role in feeding young children, parenting children during separation and divorce, and sensory integration issues. She co-authored the book, “Feeding Challenges in Young Children.”
Holly Cormier is a licensed clinical psychologist (Illinois, Missouri, and Ontario). She received her doctoral degree at the University of Toronto in 2004. Dr. Cormier is the director and chief psychologist at the SIU Clinical Center. She has lecturer status in the department of Psychology at Southern Illinois University, and supervises graduate students training to become mental health professionals. Dr. Cormier has special interests in the areas of trauma, disordered eating, depression, anxiety, interpersonal functioning, grief, and separation/divorce. Dr. Cormier has also held positions in several university counseling centers, operated a private practice, and worked at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, Canada. Dr. Cormier has received several training and research awards including the Eli Lilly Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Soroptimist Foundation of Canada Award. Dr. Cormier has published articles in the areas of women’s mental health and neuroscience.