Allison Boothe Trigg, PhD, School of Medicine
Biography
As the Executive Director of Tulane Mental Health Consultation Services (T-MHCS) and the director of TIKES Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation to Child Care Centers program, Dr. Boothe Trigg leads mental health consultation teams across the state and the Greater New Orleans area. She is a consistent contributor to the National Center of Excellence on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) and one of the founding members of the RAINE Group, which is dedicated to the practice, research, and policy of IECMHC. She co-developed the TIKES program, which has been funded through the Louisiana Department of Education to provide IECMHC to early education sites since 2007 and is the primary program of T-MHCS. Other T-MHCS programs have included IECMHC to the City Seats early education sites, IECMHC to all Jefferson Parish Community Action Program Head Start and Early Head Start Programs, and the Cornerstone MHC program, which provides mental health consultation and social skills supports to children in elementary school. T-MHCS also provides professional development to early education and elementary education educators on a variety of topics related to mental health and social emotional development. Dr. Boothe Trigg’s primary research interest is learning how IECMHC works. The current TIKES program evaluation is examining how teachers’ beliefs and burnout impact their interpretation of children’s behaviors.
aboothe@tulane.edu
