Emma Schifsky Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

California Social Work Education Center (CalSWEC)Title IV-E Child Welfare Training Program• Evaluated the Title IV-E Program and its impact on the public child welfare workforce through survey tool development, data collection, data analysis and reporting• Analyzed student information data to support program monitoring, evaluation, and continuous quality improvement efforts• Collaborated with internal and external partners to coordinate and implement statewide social work education and child welfare workforce development efforts• Provided technical guidance and resources to participating schools to support program implementation• Facilitated policy-oriented workgroup meetings through agenda planning and meeting minutes• Coordinated meetings and events, including CalSWEC’s largest annual event, the Title IV-E Summit

Oakland, California, United States

• Evaluated social programs involving physical and behavioral health, homelessness, human services and criminal justice through the creation of tool development, data collection, data analysis, and summary reports for state/county agencies and community-based organizations• Analyzed complex statewide and county datasets including extensive data cleaning and statistical analysis• Facilitated interviews and focus groups with stakeholders and community members around topics of program success and pain points• Presented mixed methods data analysis and recommendations to a wide range of stakeholders• Managed multiple projects and stakeholders to meet client expectations, deadlines, and budget constraints• Supported education consortiums and government committees through agenda planning, meeting minutes, and annual goal setting in compliance with state and local regulations

Oakland, California

Office Of The Mayor, City Of Oakland, Ca

• Analyzed the district-charter landscape through literature review and stakeholder interviews with educators, community members, and community-based organizations• Advised a three-year educational policy plan for the Oakland Mayor to increase district and charter collaboration and improve educational equity across Oakland schools

Alameda, Ca

• Developed data collection tools for First 5 Alameda County’s place-based initiative, Neighborhoods Ready for School, to measure community needs and educational gaps for children under five years old• Collected and managed secondary public data to inform First 5 Alameda County’s policy agenda and funding proposals

Portland, Or

• Participated in interactive neuroscience seminars at the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facilityaimed at creating a dialogue with incarcerated youth about the utilization of neuroscienceresearch for social justice reform

Portland, Oregon Area

• Created an MRI data quality assessment standard operating procedure for the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development study, conducted multiple training sessions with 40+ staff, managed the completion of over 5,000 subjects from 21 institutions and created the publicly available web and phone-based application BrainSwipes to streamline the quality assessment process• Developed multiple infant neuroimaging data processing pipelines, including processing over 500 subjects from 15 institutions for the Baby Connectome Project• Analyzed infant fMRI data in association with maternal environmental factors revealing novel insight into the effect of prenatal maternal diet on fetal neurodevelopment• Presented research findings at the 2018 Flux Society for Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Conference in Berlin, Germany• Investigated racial bias in adult participants using fMRI and a go/no-go task funded by the MacArthur Foundation resulting in the discovery of differences in brain activation when viewing members of another race in an emotional-context-dependent manner• Gained expertise in the operation of a Siemens 3T Prisma MRI machine, including scanning over 50 subjects for a longitudinal study investigating the neurobiological underpinnings of ADHD in adolescents

• Mentored a high school student from a background underrepresented in science through the coordination and completion of a summer research project, including daily workflows and lessons on scientific methods and result implications

Portland, Or

• Provided aging clients and/or clients with disabilities with in-home medical and emotional care

Perth, Australia

• Assisted opiate dependent patients with naltrexone implant surgery and aftercare including psychological evaluation and continual plan of care