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Hanna Perkins Receives Award from American Psychoanalytic AssociationHanna Perkins is honored for more than 50 years of service to Children and their FamiliesJanuary 20, 2006
The Hanna Perkins Center for Child Development was honored to be a
co-recipient of the 2006 Child and Family Community Service Award conferred
by the American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on Child and
Adolescent Analysis at their mid-winter meeting in New York City.
Reading from the comments of committee chair Kerry Kelly Novick, Lynn Moritz
stated, "For over fifty years, with firm roots in psychoanalytic
thinking, the Hanna Perkins Center in Cleveland has offered broad and deep
help to families, rich and creative contributions to our knowledge, and
inspired service to the community. At Hanna Perkins children find an
environment that allows them to grow on all dimensions; parents find respect
and support that empower them; and generations of daycare workers, child
life specialists, pediatricians, teachers and other professionals have
learned how to better serve their charges. We are happy to recognize
the Hanna Perkins Center's monumental contribution to our understanding of
development and to the repertoire of community involvement, and present this
award to Dr. Thomas Barrett, Executive Director, in gratitude for leadership
in service to children. families and the community."
Dr. Leon Hoffman, a founder and Director of the Pacella Parent Child
Center in New York City was on hand to receive the award for that center
which was recognized "for outstanding achievement in bringing
psychoanalytic understanding to the needs of a wide range of very young
children and their parents. Innovative and thoughtful, creative and
clever, the leaders of the Pacella Center have generated methods of early
intervention and prevention in different populations. Thoughtful
research allows for renewed richness in the program as ideas and
observations are integrated in the work. Many families who might never
have come into contact with psychoanalysts have benefited from the Pacella
Center's work, an exemplary partnership between analysts and the
community."
Hanna Perkins is honored to be a co-recipient of this year's award. Like Hanna Perkins, the Pacella Parent Child Center is a member of the Alliance of Psychoanalytic Schools.
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In receiving the
award for Hanna Perkins, Dr. Barrett expressed gratitude for this
acknowledgement and recalled with those in attendance the inspired efforts
of Dr. Anny Katan, Dr. Robert and Mrs. Erna Furman, and the many others who
over the years have provided leadership for Hanna Perkins.