Alison Malmon, Founder, Director, Active Minds, Inc.

Resources

Active Minds, Inc.
www.halfofus.org
www.dbsa.org
National Alliance on Mental Illness
Mental Health America

Melinda Wharton, MD, MPH
Captain, United States Public Health Service
Deputy Director, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Resources

Center for Disease Control
American Academy of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Immunization Action Coalition
Every Child By Two

Mary Quattlebaum, author of 15 children’s books

Resources:

Learning to Write and Draw From Birth to Three

Linda Goldman, MS, LCPC, FT; author, Coming Out, Coming In: Nurturing the Well-Being and Inclusion of Gay Youth in Mainstream Society

Anthony S. Pitch, author and private tour guide, Washington, DC

Dr. Barbara V. Romberg, licensed clinical psychologist, founder and president of Give An Hour

Resources:

ZERO TO THREE’s Resources for Military Families

Coping With Deployments Over the Holidays

Preparing for R & R Leave

Scott J. Wolfson, Deputy Director of the Office of Information and Public Affairs, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Tracy Whitman, Coordinator, Kids In Safety Seats

Charlene R. Burgeson, Executive Director of the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE)

Resources

National Association for Sport and Physical Education  (NASPE)

American Association for the Child’s Right to Play

National initiative on “rescuing recess”

Mike Schneider, Executive Director, Camp Airy and Camp Louise

Resources

American Camp Association

Chris Mercogliano, Former Director, Albany Free School; author, In Defense of Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness

Resources

Defending Childhood: Protecting Kids’ Inner Wildness, by Chris Mergogliano

The Case Against Homework, by Sarah Bennett

Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv

The Alternative Education Resource Organization

Chris Mercogliano on getting kids to love reading