The Bernard L. Pacella, MD Parent Child Center - About Us

American Psychoanalytic Association's Child and
Family Service Community Award

The American Psychoanalytic Association's Committee on Child and Adolescent
Analysis annually gives our Child and Family Community Service Award to
a program that exemplifies the best that psychoanalysis has to offer.

This year we honor two excellent agencies who serve very young children and their parents.

We are happy to recognize The Pacella Parent Child Center of New York
for outstanding achievement in bringing psychoanalytic understanding to the
needs of a wide range of very young children and their parents.
Innovative and thoughtful, creative and clever, the leaders of the Pacella Center
have generated methods of early intervention and prevention in different populations.

Thoughtful research allows for renewed richness in the program as ideas
and observations are integrated in the work. Many families who might never
have come into contact with psychoanalysts have benefited from the Pacella
Center's work, an exemplary partnership between analysts and the community.

We are proud to honor the Pacella Parent Child Center and present this
award with pleasure to Dr. Leon Hoffman, a founder and director of the
Pacella Center.

Kerry Kelly Novick
Chair, Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychoanalysis