1. Awarded 2010 Excellence in Special Education Award, NASET’s (National Association of Special Education Teachers) highest organizational honor.
2. Trained thousands of Mental Health Professionals at our Professional Development Conferences.
3. More than 5,500 people viewed our video interview with Dr. Stuart Ablon of Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital.
4. Gave the healing gift of yoga to 75 children a week for 42 weeks, reaching an annual total of 3,150 children, and also provided weekly yoga classes for their caregivers, too.
5. Increased our therapeutic gardening programs for at-risk youth. A special thanks to our corporate sponsor Alice McCarney of Alice Hair (alicehair.com) for sponsoring this program in honor of her brother, Seanog.
6. Funded a drumming residency by Obo Addy and his troupe, Homowo, at Pioneer Special School, as well as a music grant benefiting ChristieCare (christiecare.org) for their Native American Drumming program.
7. We had the incredible opportunity to meet with top activists in the field of mental health, including Glenn Close, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison and Garen and Shari Staglin.
8. We went viral, receiving lots of press on the radio and in various blogs, newspapers and online magazines, inspiring many people across the country that we didn’t even know to donate or reach out to us through Facebook, eBay and other social media.
9. Announced that Congressman Patrick Kennedy will be the Honorary Chair of our 2011 Perfection Party, with Lisa Bloom moderating our panel discussion with honorees: Stuart Ablon, Phd, Harold S. Koplewicz M.D., Shonda Schilling and the Staglins.
10. And our most important accomplishment was when a woman with no connection to children’s mental health attended our two-day conference with Dr. Ablon in NY and told us that she came because she saw our tagline, “Seeing the perfection in every child,” and wanted to learn how to see the perfection in herself.
