Civitas has worked with the following individuals and organizations in the process of creating our educational tools:

Connecting through Child Care (video)
Laura Aird
American Academy of Pediatrics

Susan S. Aronson, MD, FAAP
American Academy of Pediatrics

Jill C.H. Bailey
Parents As Teachers National Center

Robin Byster, M.A.T.

Barbara Coccodrilli Carlson
Early Care and Education Training

Mehr Cox
Child Care Group

Eileen Eisenberg, M.Ed.
Center for Early Childhood Leadership at National-Louis University

Linda M. Espinosa
University of Missouri-Columbia

Katherine E. Falen, M.Ed.
Carole Robertson Center for Learning

Ellen Galinsky
Families and Work Institute

Danette Glassy, MD, FAAP
American Academy of Pediatrics

Jim Greenman
Bright Horizons Family Solutions

Brent T. Harriman
Action For Children

Roselyn M. Harris, MA
IL Department of Human Services

Mary Louise Hemmeter
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
Temple University ~ University of Minnesota

Marilou Hyson, Ph.D.
National Association for the Education of Young Children

Jamilah R. Jor'dan, Ph.D.
Partnership for Quality Childcare

Beth Knight
Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Jane A. Kostelc
Parents As Teachers National Center

Sandra Lamm
Camp Fire USA First Texas Council

Wendy J. Mertes
Harper College

Suzanne Moustakas, M.Ed.
Illinois Child Care Association

Edna Ranck
Westover Consultants, Inc.

Sue Reynolds, M.Ed.
Ounce of Prevention Fund

Gina R. Ruther
IL Department of Human Services

Ethel Seiderman
Parent Services Project

Linda K. Smith
NACCRRA

Marc Weissbluth, M.D.
Northwestern Children's Practice

Bernice Weissbourd
Family Focus

Linda Winkleman
Camp Fire USA First Texas Council

Faith Wohl
Formerly with Child Care Action Campaign

Cass Wolfe
Carole Robertson Center for Learning

Sherry Workman
National Association of Child Care Professionals

Begin with Love
American Academy of Pediatrics

Ida Cardone, Ph.D.
Director, Perinatal Family Support Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare/ Evanston Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School

Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D.
UC San Francisco

Kyle Pruett, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine

Marc Weissbluth, M.D.
The Northwestern Children's Practice

Zero to Three

Understanding Children
Kathryn E. Barnard, Ph.D., R.N.
University of Washington

Ana Beltran, J.D.
Generations United

Barbara L. Bonner, Ph.D.
Director, Department of Pediatrics, Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Ida Cardone, Ph.D.
Director, Perinatal Family Support Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare/ Evanston Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School

Lillian Carson, D.S.W.
Author, The Essential Grandparent: A Guide to Making a Difference

Rosalind Cartwright, Ph.D.
Professor and Chairman, Department of Psychology, Rush-Presbyterian-St. Lukes Medical Center

Edward Christophersen, Ph.D.
Professor of Pediatrics, Children's Mercy Hospital at Kansas City, Missouri

Cathleen Church-Balin, M.H.S., M.B.A.
Director, Education Services, March of Dimes

Ann Corwin, Ph.D., M.Ed.
Family and Child Development Consulting

Lise Eliot, Ph.D.
Chicago Medical School

Sheila Gahagan, M.D.
University of Michigan

Linda Gilkerson, Ph.D.
Erikson Institute

Amy Goyer
Coordinator, AARP Grandparenting Information Center

William T. Greenough, Ph.D.
Professor, University of Illinois

Megan Gunnar, Ph.D.
University of Minnesota

Gregg Haifley
Children's Defense Fund

Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology, Temple University

Rebecca Klein, M.S.
Erikson Institute

Arthur Kornhaber, M.D.
President and Founder, The Foundation for Grandparenting

Michael E. Lamb, Ph.D.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

James Levine, Ed.D.
Director, The Fatherhood Project, Families and Work Institute

Alicia F. Lieberman, Ph.D.
University of California at San Francisco

Betty L. Lucas, M.P.H., R.D., C.D.
University of Washington

Joan B. McLane, Ph.D.
Erikson Institute

Ellen Metrick
Toy Specialist, National Lekotek Center

Charles A. Nelson, Ph.D.
Distinguished McKnight University Professor, University of Minnesota

Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center

Joyce Maguire Pavao, Ed.D., L.C.S.W., L.M.F.T.
Director and Founder, Center for Family Connections

Jodi A. Mindell, Ph.D.
Director, Graduate Program in Psychology, St. Joseph's University Associate Director Sleep Disorder Center, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Stacey Platt, J.D.
Clinical Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago

Kyle Pruett, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine

Marsha Pruett, Ph.D.
Yale University School of Medicine

Edna Ranck, Ed.D.
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Barbara H. Rawn, M.A.
Vice-President for Program Development, Prevent Child Abuse America

Jennifer Rosinia, M.Ed., OTRL
Erikson Insitute

Laura Sanders, L.C.S.W.
Associate Clinical Director of the Family Assessment Clinic, University of Michigan School of Social Work

Marilyn Segal, Ph.D.
Director of Academics, Marilyn Segal Institute for Early Childhood Studies, Nova Southeastern University

Arloc Sherman
Senior Research Associate, Children's Defense Fund

Donald Shifrin, M.D.
University of Washington

JoAnne Solchany, Ph.D.
University of Washington

Martin T. Stein, M.D.
University of California at San Diego

Gail Steinberg
PACT: An Adoption Alliance

Fran Stott, Ph.D.
Erikson Institute

Amy Susman-Stillman, Ph.D.
Coordinator, Irving B. Harris Training Center for Infant and Toddler Development, University of Minnesota

Sharon Syc, Ph.D.
Erikson Institute

Sylvie de Toledo, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.
Director and Founder, Grandparents as Parents, Inc

Marc Weissbluth, M.D.
The Northwestern Children's Practice

Bernice Weissbourd, Ph.D.
President, Family Focus

Faith A. Wohl
President, Child Care Action Campaign

Meg Zweiback R.N., M.P.H., C.P.N.P.
Associate Clinical Professor of Nursing, University of CalifoR.N.ia at San Francisco

Kathryn & Allan Zullo
Co-authors, The Nanas and the Papas

Grandparenting: Enriching Lives
Lillian Carson, D.S.W.
Author, The Essential Grandparent: A Guide to Making a Difference

Sylvie de Toledo, L.C.S.W., B.C.D.
Founder/ Director, Grandparents as Parents, Inc

Amy Goyer
Coordinator, AARP Grandparenting Information Center

Arthur Kornhaber, M.D.
President and Founder, The Foundation for Grandparenting

Bernice Weissbourd, Ph.D.
President/Founder, Family Focus

Kathryn & Allan Zullo
Co-authors, The Nanas and the Papas

Right on Course
Sandra P. Alexander, M.Ed.
Executive Director, Prevent Child Abuse Georgia

Ida Cardone, Ph.D.
Director, Perinatal Family Support Center, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare/ Evanston Hospital
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Northwestern University Medical School

Dante Cicchetti, Ph.D.
Shirley Cox Kearns Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry, and Pediatrics

Anne Cohn Donnelly, D.P.H.
Professor, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University

Deborah Daro, Ph.D.
Research Fellow, Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago

Esther Deblinger, Ph.D.
Clinical Director of the Center for Children's Support
Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Pediatrics University Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey School of Osteopathic Medicine

Byron Egeland, Ph.D.
Irving B. Harris Professor of Child Development, Co-Director of the Irving B. Harris Training Center for Infant and Toddler Development University of Minnesota

Joy D. Osofsky, Ph.D.
Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry, Louisiana State University Health Sciences

Stacey Platt, J.D.
Associate Director of the Loyola ChildLaw Clinic, Loyola University School of Law

Seth D. Pollak, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Psychiatry and Pediatrics University of Wisconsin at Madison

Barbara H. Rawn, M.A.
Vice-President for Program Development, Prevent Child Abuse America

Sheree L. Toth, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical and Social Sciences in Psychology Associate Director of the Mt. Hope Family Center University of Rochester

What Grown Ups Understand About Child Development
Judith C. Appelbaum
Vice-President and Director of Employment Opportunities National Women's Law Center

Lauren Asher
Director of Communications, National Partnership for Women and Families

Helen Blank
Director of Child Care and Development Division, Children's Defense Fund

Mark Greenberg
Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy

Sheila Kamerman, DSW
Compton Foundation Centennial Professor Director, Columbia Institute for Child and Family Policy Co-Director, Cross-National Studies Research Program Columbia University

J. Ronald Lally, Ed. D.
Director, Center for Child & Family Studies, WestEd Director, Syracuse University Family Development Research Program

Donna Lenhoff
General Counsel, National Partnership for Women and Families

James A. Levine,
Director, The Fatherhood Project, Families and Work Institute

Joan Lombardi
Former Commissioner, Child Care Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dolores G. Norton, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Service Administration, University of Chicago

Jeree H. Pawl, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco Director of the Infant-Parent Program, a UCSF program located at San Francisco General Hospital

Ann Pleshette Murphy
Editor-at-Large, Parents Magazine Parenting Correspondent for ABC's "Good Morning America"

Kyle Pruett, M.D.
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center

Yasmina Vinci
Executive Director, National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies

Marcy Whitebook
Center for the Child Care Work Force

Faith A. Wohl
President, Child Care Action Campaign

Barry Zuckerman, M.D., F.A.A.P.
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health, Boston University School of Medicine Chief of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center