A non-profit partner with parents, educators and mental health professionals to help children become their best selves.
Founded in 1951, our work is based on understanding that a child’s behavior is a form of communication.
Feelings are as powerful in children as they are in adults – but the abilities to connect a feeling to its source, manage it and communicate it are learned skills. Hanna Perkins helps nurture these skills as essentials to a child’s developing personality and outlook.
Services include:
- Hanna Perkins School: State-chartered kindergarten, preschool, parent/toddler program and EPIC Early Learning for children with autism Autism Spectrum Disorders.
- Hadden Clinic: Mental healthcare for children, adolescents and new moms struggling with postpartum depression.
- Consultation and training with other schools and early learning centers.
- Continuing education for early learning educators, child care workers, social workers, mental health professionals and others who work with children on a daily basis.
We focus on early childhood because it’s a short period that sets the foundation for all later abilities to learn, work, form healthy relationships and enjoy life. Our focus is relationship-based because the trust and respect for feelings that are part of a caring relationship are central to all other learning.
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“I learned that what children need most is to feel understood.They need a witness to their inner emotional experience. HPC helped translate this mysterious inner world into something I could recognize and understand. Once my child felt understood, everything changed. Everything.”
-Parent of a former student
