Karen Cairone, mental health expert and widely published author, supports teachers, leaders, and families in promoting children’s healthy development, ensuring children’s school readiness and success, and helping children build strong resilience skills.

Cairone is the associate project director for the National Center on Health, Behavioral Health, and Safety—an Office of Head Start-funded technical assistance center. She has also served as a writer for EDC’s Home Visiting Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network. Previously, she served as expert faculty on the Positive Guidance Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network.

Cairone co-authored the books Promoting Resilience in Preschoolers: A Strategy Guide for Early Childhood Professionals and 50 Activities to Promote Resilience in Young Children and has blogged on communicating with teachers about learning styles. She contributed to the Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Toolbox, is a consulting editor for Young Children magazine, and is a frequent blogger for Exchange Press.

Cairone holds an AB in Psychology and English from Lafayette College and an EdM in Educational Psychology from Rutgers University.