Article archive / October 1, 2013
Originally published: . Volume 5, No. 2. Source pages: 12.
Gov. Bobby Jindal has appointed Dr. Julie Larrieu to the Louisiana Children's Trust Fund Board, according to the press release from the governor's office September 6. Dr. Larrieu is a Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Pediatrics and Director of Training, Clinical Psychology, at the Tulane University School of Medicine.
Dr. Larrieu will represent the Louisiana Psychological Association on the 15-member board.
The Louisiana Children's Trust Fund Board strives to improve child abuse and neglect prevention efforts by establishing a plan for prevention of child abuse, presenting an annual review to the governor and legislature and funding community-based child abuse and neglect programs through its grant process, according to the announcement.
Other members who serve on the board include the Secretary of the Department of Social Services and the Assistant Secretary of the Office of Community Services within the Department of Social Services.
The board also includes representatives from the State Medical Society, the Louisiana Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, and the Louisiana Bar Association.
Also represented is the Louisiana Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers, the Louisiana Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, the Louisiana Association for Education of Young Children, the Louisiana State Conference of the NAACP, and the National Business League, New Orleans Chapter.
Larrieu has been at Tulane since 1998 and received her training in Developmental Psychology from Purdue University, Kent State University, and completed her psychology internship with Baylor College of Medicine. She also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in the area of Health Psychology.
At Tulane Larrieu’s interests focus on infant mental health issues, developmental psychopathology, and training and policy issues. According to her Tulane information, her work deals with the abuse and neglect of infants and toddlers including identifying risk factors for abuse as well as predictors of successful treatment for abusive parents.
She notes that currently she is involved in providing training in infant mental health to professionals who are skilled in working with school-age children, and to public health nurses who work with a variety of at-risk families.
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