Welcome Note from the NYZTT Co-Presidents:
Welcome to another beautiful Fall in New York. We hope you have had time to enjoy some outdoor time, if only on your commute to work, and that everyone has settled comfortably back into their Fall routines.
At New York Zero-to-Three there have been a few changes. Joanne Loeb and Susan Perkins have completed their term as Co-Presidents of the Board. We are so grateful for their amazing years of service to the organization. Martha Edwards and Margot Kaplan-Sanoff are the new Co-President team. Margot brings her many years of experience providing training in child and family development to pediatric residents, fellows, and faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center and as Founder and former National Director of HealthySteps. Martha contributes her considerable expertise in training and providing mental health services as the Director of the Center for the Developing Child & Family at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and creator of the evidence-based program for families with infants and toddlers, Bright Beginnings Parent-Child Program.
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We are excited about the activities being offered this year through NYZTT.
The Program Committee has created an array of intriguing and informative virtual workshops. The first three in the line-up are:
ACEs, Resilience, and Your Role in Strengthening Families with Tamae Memole on Wednesday, October 30, 2024, 6-7:30 PM
Clinical Work with Young Children in Foster Care
with Susan Chinitz, Psy.D. on Tuesday, December 3, 2024Partnering with Parents to Solve Everyday Childrearing Challenges with Claire Lerner, MSW on Wednesday, January 22, 2025
The committee is now planning the winter and spring workshops. We would be delighted to hear from the membership about the topics you would like to see addressed. Please send ideas to info@nyztt.org and we will try to arrange for speakers. We would also very much like to hear from you about other offerings that would be valuable to you. Possible activities we have discussed include a book club on issues in infant and child development or a forum for practice and policy discussions and support among the members. We are working hard to address the challenges of offering a range of virtual vs in-person events.
With so much discussion in the news about parenting options, childcare choices, workforce implications, and financial incentives for programming, there will be a great deal for us to consider this winter. We look forward to hearing from you and sharing our collective knowledge and expertise.