Professors named to state advisory board

oAnne Pedro-Carroll, director of programs for Families in Transition at the Children's

Institute, and Sanford Mayer, a clinical associate professor at Strong Memorial Hospital, have been appointed to the New York State Parent Education Advisory Board.

The advisory board, which was established by Chief Judge Judith Kaye in her State of the Judiciary Address in January, will include 19 members charged with working to ensure that separating parents have information on how to help children adjust to divorce.

The board also plans to work closely with parent education programs around the state to monitor quality and effectiveness, develop curricula, and create a successful statewide network.

An associate professor of psychology and psychiatry, Pedro-Carroll directs programs for Families in Transition at the Children's Institute (formerly known as the Primary Mental Health Project). She oversees such projects as the school-based Children of Divorce Intervention Program and A.C.T.-For the Children (Assisting Children through Transition). A preventive intervention program for parents to assist children with the difficulties of divorce, the program is a joint effort of the Children's Institute and the Seventh Judicial District of New York, as well as the mental health, legal, judicial, and mediation communities.

Mayer also is a pediatrician at Twelve Corners Pediatrics in Brighton.

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