The National Staff Development and Training Association (NSDTA) has given its Quality Award for 2006 to the Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) curriculum, which is part of the Residential Child Care Project in the Family Life Development Center, College of Human Ecology at Cornell.

Cornell experts have used the curriculum to train more than 3,000 professionals around the world who, in turn, lead training programs in residential child-care facilities on how to help children learn constructive ways to handle crises. They include Michael Nunno and Martha J. Holden, both senior extension associates, and Thomas Endres and Greg Wise, extension associates, as well as a group of 15 national and international faculty.

The Residential Child Care Project is an international outreach, technical assistance and training organization that disseminates techniques and systems to reduce aggression in children's treatment facilities and to prevent institutional child abuse and neglect. Its staff has conducted training throughout New York and in more than 40 states, Canada, Puerto Rico, Russia, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, Israel, Bermuda and the United Kingdom.

The NSDTA is an organization for professionals responsible for human service training and staff development on the local, state and federal levels.