Jon Korfmacher

Dr. Jon Korfmacher is a Senior Research Fellow at Chapin Hall (Chicago) whose research examines the implementation and outcome of home visiting and other early childhood interventions, parent engagement in these services, and quality assessment, with an emphasis on workforce training and development. He is a member of the leadership team of the Home Visiting Applied Research Collaborative (HARC), a national network in the United States funded by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) focused on promotion of precision home visiting research. He is a founding member of the Infant Mental Health Ethics Collaboration, which has partnered with the World Association for Infant Mental Health to develop resources aimed at enhancing ethical practice in the field. For over 20 years he was on the faculty at Erikson Institute, where he directed their doctoral program and oversaw the Illinois Child Parent Psychotherapy Learning Collaborative, a training program for community therapists in an evidence-based treatment for young children and their families experiencing trauma.  He has consulted nationally and internationally on research and evaluation of early childhood services and is a member of the Board of Directors of Zero To Three. 

Courses taught:

CPSY 5306 Ethics and Professionalism in applied child & adolescent psychology