Kathryn Burton is the Program Coordinator for the NJ Children’s System of Care (CSOC) Training & Technical Assistance program that provides statewide professional development for the CSOC workforce. Her experience includes sixteen years of training, curriculum design, and work in CSOC as a Crisis Intervention Specialist and Program Coordinator with Middlesex Children’s Mobile Response. Her training topics include social supports, race equity, suicide prevention, and crisis intervention. She is a certified trainer of national curricula including Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR), Psychological First Aid (PFA), and CPI: Nonviolent Crisis Prevention Intervention. In 2008, Kathryn earned an Ed.M. in Educational Psychology: Learning, Cognition, and Development where she focused her studies on racial identity development in transracially adopted youth. In 2019, she completed a certificate program at the University of Washington in E-Learning & Instructional Design. She is also certified as a Disaster Response Crisis Counselor (DRCC) through the state of New Jersey.