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In addition to his work in the private sector, for more than 15 years
Dr. Arredondo has helped build effective models of service delivery for
children and families facing multiple adversities in public, non-profit
and philanthropic sectors. His focus includes early childhood brain development,
the effects of trauma, and current thinking about children’s connectedness
to practitioners across many disciplines.
Dr. Arredondo has been intimately involved in the design and application
of culturally competent, community-based services for children in state
juvenile justice, mental health, foster care, sexual abuse and early child
education systems. He was a principal architect in designing an ecological
approach to resource deployment for First Five, instrumental in the design
of a targeted, highly successful, lower cost Wrapround service delivery
model. Dr. Arredondo designed, helped implement and documented the nation’s
first Juvenile Mental Health Court in Santa Clara County, and has disseminated
the model across the nation.
Earlier, at EMQ Children and Family Services, he led the design of a program
called Matrix – a county specific version of ecologically informed,
community based approaches - which helps move children out of institutional
settings into community based alternatives. He is also the founding director
of The Children's Program, Solomon and Applied Neuroscience and is the
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Most recently he has translated recent advances in developmental neuroscience
into a practice improvement model that is child and family friendly,
culturally competent, strength based, and non-stigmatizing: The Tonal
Connectedness Initiative.
Along with Judge Leonard Edwards, Dr. Arredondo is working to introduce
this and several practical improvements to public service delivery to
children at highest risk, including family group decision making, foster
care transition preparedness, and connectedness-based re-entry planning
for juveniles returning from incarceration. These programmatic practices
are designed to directly improve the effectiveness, relevance and cultural
competence of large service delivery systems for disadvantaged children
and their families.
Dr. Arredondo is a proven social change agent and policy catalyst. He
is a nationally known clinician, lecturer, and concept expert. Dr. Arredondo
often provides initial assessment of programs, clinical models and programmatic
elements for no charge. Contact
Dr. Arredondo today for more information about he can help your organization.
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