Tammy Thomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 6214784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tammy Thomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tammy |
| FAMILY NAME | Thomas |
| SIGNATURE | THOMAS T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Basic needs insecurity among LGBTQ+ college students
Introduction Studies have indicated that a significant proportion of college students suffer from basic needs insecurity (food and housing). However, few studies have assessed the rates at which LGBTQ+ students experience needs insecurity compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. Fewer studies have assessed differences in insecurity between LGBTQ+ groups.Method This study is a secondary analysis of a survey including LGBTQ+ and c…
Anything Would Be Easier than What We’re Doing Right Now”: Early Head Start Home Visitors’ Experiences Working Through an Environmental Crisis
Home Visitors and early childhood educators play a critical role in supporting the development of young children from low-income families in the United States. During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on service delivery dramatically impacted the professional experience of Home Visitors, presenting significant new challenges for this dedicated, often under-compensated workforce. An external evaluation team explored the experiences of Early Head…
Root Shock Revisited: Perspectives of Early Head Start Mothers on Community and Policy Environments and Their Effects on Child Health, Development, and School Readiness
Racial differences in school readiness are a form of health disparity. By examining, from the perspective of low-income minority families participating in an Early Head Start study, community and policy environments as they shape and inform lived experiences, we identified several types of social and economic dislocation that undermine the efforts of parents to ready their children for school. The multiple dislocations of community triggered by h…
Infant mental health and family support: Contributions of Early Head Start to an integrated model for community‐based early childhood programs
This paper analyzes the experiences of an Early Head Start (EHS) program in adopting and implementing an infant mental health (IMH) approach in its work with community families. Through qualitative methods (participant observation, qualitative interviews, and case studies), we examined the strategies used, and the challenges encountered, by program staff as they applied IMH principles in their home‐visiting interventions with families whose lives…
Infant mental health and family support: Contributions of Early Head Start to an integrated model for community‐based early childhood programs
This paper analyzes the experiences of an Early Head Start (EHS) program in adopting and implementing an infant mental health (IMH) approach in its work with community families. Through qualitative methods (participant observation, qualitative interviews, and case studies), we examined the strategies used, and the challenges encountered, by program staff as they applied IMH principles in their home‐visiting interventions with families whose lives…
Root Shock Revisited: Perspectives of Early Head Start Mothers on Community and Policy Environments and Their Effects on Child Health, Development, and School Readiness
Racial differences in school readiness are a form of health disparity. By examining, from the perspective of low-income minority families participating in an Early Head Start study, community and policy environments as they shape and inform lived experiences, we identified several types of social and economic dislocation that undermine the efforts of parents to ready their children for school. The multiple dislocations of community triggered by h…
Infant mental health and family support: Contributions of Early Head Start to an integrated model for community‐based early childhood programs
This paper analyzes the experiences of an Early Head Start (EHS) program in adopting and implementing an infant mental health (IMH) approach in its work with community families. Through qualitative methods (participant observation, qualitative interviews, and case studies), we examined the strategies used, and the challenges encountered, by program staff as they applied IMH principles in their home‐visiting interventions with families whose lives…
Root Shock Revisited: Perspectives of Early Head Start Mothers on Community and Policy Environments and Their Effects on Child Health, Development, and School Readiness
Racial differences in school readiness are a form of health disparity. By examining, from the perspective of low-income minority families participating in an Early Head Start study, community and policy environments as they shape and inform lived experiences, we identified several types of social and economic dislocation that undermine the efforts of parents to ready their children for school. The multiple dislocations of community triggered by h…
Anything Would Be Easier than What We’re Doing Right Now”: Early Head Start Home Visitors’ Experiences Working Through an Environmental Crisis
Home Visitors and early childhood educators play a critical role in supporting the development of young children from low-income families in the United States. During the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions on service delivery dramatically impacted the professional experience of Home Visitors, presenting significant new challenges for this dedicated, often under-compensated workforce. An external evaluation team explored the experiences of Early Head…
Basic needs insecurity among LGBTQ+ college students
Introduction Studies have indicated that a significant proportion of college students suffer from basic needs insecurity (food and housing). However, few studies have assessed the rates at which LGBTQ+ students experience needs insecurity compared to their heterosexual and cisgender counterparts. Fewer studies have assessed differences in insecurity between LGBTQ+ groups.Method This study is a secondary analysis of a survey including LGBTQ+ and c…
Early Childhood Education and Development (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Head start (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Affect (linguistics) (1 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (1 works)