To facilitate statewide cooperation and collaboration among individuals concerned with promoting conditions that will bring about the optimal development of infants and young children and their relationships with their caregivers.

To encourage the realization that infancy lays a critical foundation in the ongoing social-emotional development of individuals.

To provide information to the general public, that will enhance awareness and bring to public attention the social-emotional needs of children in the first years of life.

To promote education, research, and study of the effects of infant social-emotional development in the first years of life on the full range of developmental outcomes.

To promote the awareness and knowledge of the impact of the mental health of parents, families, and other caregivers on infants and early childhood development.

To promote the development of scientifically based programs of care, prevention, and intervention to optimize emotional well-being in infancy and early childhood.

Margaret Briggs-Gowan - Vice President
University of CT Health Center
Dept. of Psychiatry
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT  06030-1410

Kareena DuPlessis - Secretary
Director, Child Development Infoline
United Way of CT
1344 Silas Deane Hwy
Rocky Hill CT 06067

Nancy Canata - Treasurer
Program Director
CREC -Regional Education Service Center
34 Sequassen Street
Hartford, CT  06106
 

Darcy Lowell, MD
Director, Child FIRST
Bridgeport Hospital
267 Grant Street
Bridgeport, CT  06610

Aileen McKenna
Department of Developmental Services
Birth to Three
460 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT  06106
 

Karen Steinberg
University of CT Health Center
Dept. of Psychiatry
263 Farmington Avenue
Farmington, CT  06030-1410

Marianne Barton, PhD
Department of Psychology U-1020
University of CT
406 Babbidge Road
Storrs, CT 06269-