Richard Cohen, PhD, Policy Director, and co-founder is a consultant in child development and Adjunct Lecturer at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work. He has spent over forty years at the intersections of early childhood and child welfare. Grounded as a teacher at the UCLA Laboratory School, Richard was Executive Director at Westside Children’s Center, a multi-service agency focusing on young children and their families. He directed both Project ABC, a federally funded early childhood mental health system of care, and the Pacific Oaks Research Center. He has experience in policy and is currently an appointee to the L. A. County Policy Roundtable for Child Care and Development and past President of CalAIMH. 

Kevin Gruenberg, PsyD, Executive Director and co-founder, is a clinical psychologist focused on developing practices and policies that integrate fathers into perinatal and early childhood programs. Dr. Gruenberg co-developed, piloted, and researched programs that promote paternal family engagement, mental health, and family well-being including Home Visiting with Dads and Supporting Fathers Towards Whole Family Health: Screening in Context. He also provides consultation and training on fatherhood, paternal perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, and building parent-child relationships. Lastly, he has two children and provides psychotherapy to children, families, and adults in private practice.