Artemis Associates, LLC promotes resilience for children, families, and communities and creates committed values-based partnerships to support children and families, and the providers that serve them. Grounded in direct service and person-centered care, Artemis Associates conducts assessments, provides consultation and training, engages in research, develops and shares knowledge, and advocates for compassionate, high-quality services for children and families in need. Unbounded, passionate, and purposeful, Artemis Associates will go the distance to ensure all children, families, and their providers are seen, heard, and understood.
Artemis Associates is a qualified training vendor for the state of Massachusetts and is certified as a woman business enterprise (WBE) with the Supplier Diversity Office (‘SDO’) under the business description of TRAINING AND CONSULTATION SERVICES, INCLUDING TRAUMA INFORMED CARE, LEADERSHIP AND SUPERVISION, COACHING, AND PROGRAM EVALUATION, WITH AGENCIES SERVING CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.
We provide an array of services to help individuals, families, and organizations develop, grow, and flourish. We specialize in child and youth development, family homelessness, understanding traumatic stress, implementing trauma-informed care, building staff capacity, and leadership coaching and supervision. Our aim is to support providers in developing high-quality programs serving families and creating sustainable resiliency-oriented, systems change. Excellence, up to date research, and one to one support are the hallmarks of her consultation process. Associate partners deepen our offerings to include quantitative and qualitative research, program evaluation, collective impact evaluation, creating user-friendly data systems, using routine outcomes and data driven decision-making, and coalition building for diverse partners.
Our compassion leads to engaged action.
Artemis Associates works with you as partners with one singular goal:
To improve the lives of children, families,
and the systems that serve them.
Carmela J. DeCandia, PsyD, is a licensed clinical child psychologist who has dedicated her career to advancing best practices and policies to support vulnerable children and families, and to improve the systems which serve them. In practice for nearly 30 years, her primary work focuses on building trauma-informed systems of care. Her specialties include: child and adolescent development, family homelessness, addressing the impact of traumatic stress, program development and systems change, neurodevelopmental testing and family assessment. A compassionate clinician and effective leader, she is nationally recognized as a writer, advocate, and public speaker. She has led direct service and national agencies including St. Mary’s Women and Children’s Center and The National Center on Family Homelessness.
Currently, Dr. DeCandia is the Owner and President of Artemis Associates, LLC where she provides training and consultation to organizations to enhance resilience for children, families, and their providers. In addition, she maintains a clinical practice in neurodevelopmental and psychological testing of children at Strong Roots Counseling center, and is the Principal Investigator on a NICHD funded project to develop the screening instrument – NEST Early Childhood (see research page for more information). Dr. DeCandia has published extensively in academic journals and educational reports, and lectures on lifespan development and psychological testing at Boston College Graduate school in Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology. For her work, she was named the recipient of the 2016 Horace Mann Spirit of Service Award by Antioch University.
Dr. Maureen Hayes is a social science researcher and clinician who has worked with vulnerable populations for 20 years. Her areas of specialization include homelessness, housing, trauma, children and families, and mental health. She is the founder and owner of the Triskele Consulting Group, which provides research, program evaluation, and training services. As the Senior Researcher at the National Center on Family Homelessness, Dr. Hayes was the Project Director for the SHIFT Study (Shelter and Housing Interventions for Families in Transition), which examined long-term outcomes for homeless families.
As an evaluator, Dr. Hayes conducts mixed-methods program evaluations that focus on program effectiveness and efficiency, identifying areas for improved service delivery and staff development. Dr. Hayes received her Ph.D. in Social Work with a specialization in children and families from Fordham University, and her Masters in Social Work from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Katie Volk, Ph.D., IMH-E® has over 20 years experience in applying child development knowledge to the everyday work of being with children. She has particular expertise in infant mental health, early childhood development, and trauma-informed care. Katie has worked with hundreds of organizations around the United States, spanning early education/care, homelessness, mental health, and substance use/recovery systems. As a qualitative and mixed-methods researcher, Katie’s research interests include relationships between young children and their caregivers while living in shelters, the developmental wellbeing of children with Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), and ways to strengthen child-serving services/systems. She is the co-creator of NEST, an ecological, psychometrically-validated screening tool for use with children ages 3-5. In addition to her role with Artemis Associates, Katie is a Visiting Faculty member at Wheaton College (Massachusetts) and a teacher in their lab school. Katie has a Master’s Degree in child development and public policy from Tufts University and a doctorate in early education and care from UMass Boston. Her undergraduate degree is from the College of the Holy Cross. She is Endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor (Research/Faculty) by the Massachusetts Association of Infant Mental Health.