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The Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood is the recipient of two major national awards, the 2002 Children's Program Award for Excellence and the 2002 Marianne Kris Prize. The awards recognize the outstanding nature of the Center's work and both are conferred by the Association for Child Psychoanalysis, the field's pre-eminent international association.
The Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood is the inaugural recipient of the 2002 Children's Program Award for Excellence, given by Association for Child Psychoanalysis (ACP) to honor programs making unusually distinguished contributions to the welfare of children. The award to the Lucy Daniels Center was bestowed "in recognition of its outstanding program of innovative services, research, training and community leadership benefiting children, families, early childhood educators, mental health professionals and their communities locally, nationally, and internationally."
The 2002 Marianne Kris Prize, was also awarded to the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood by the ACP, is the association's major prize. It is given annually to recognize the individual (and now, for the first time, program) that has made profound and sustained scientific contributions to the emotional well being of children and families.
The Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood has provided service to young children, parents, teachers, mental health professional and others who are given the responsibility of helping children grow. It is now a nationally recognized model for early childhood mental health, early childhood education and professional education. Using innovative approaches from education, psychology and mental health disciplines, the professionally divers staff has created specialized programs that support the development of both typically developing children and children identified with emotional and behavioral problems.
Distinguished contemporary contributors to early childhood development, T. Berry Brazelton, M.D. and Stanley Greenspan, M.D. are members of this organization, as are the majority of the founders of the major national resource for young children's development, "Zero to Three".
Donald J. Rosenblitt, M.D. is the founding clinical director of the Lucy Daniels Center for Early Childhood, established in1989. He is currently the Director of the Psychoanalytic Institute of the Carolinas, where he also serves as training and supervising analyst in Adult and Child Psychoanalysis. Dr. Rosenblitt has served as an officer in numerous national professional organizations including: chairman of the board on Professional Standards of the American Psychoanalytic Association (1997-2000); co-chairman of the Workshop on Therapeutic Preschools of the American Psychoanalytic Association (1999-present); and currently as secretary-elect of the Association of child Psychoanalysis.