Sylvia B. Rimm, PhD
Dr. Sylvia Rimm is a psychologist and best-selling author with a national following. She is the director of the Family Achievement Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, and is a clinical professor at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine.
Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann is the author of six books on ADD, including Attention Deficit Disorder, A Different Perception, Healing ADD: Simple Exercises that will change your Daily Life, ADD success Stories: A Guide to fulfillment for Families with Attention Deficit Disorder. He is the former executive director of a residential treatment facility for emotionally disturbed children, the co-founder of a school for ADHD children, a psychotherapist and one of America's most popular radio hosts.
Toby Klein Greenwald
Toby Klein Greenwald, Executive V.P. Creative Development, is a founding partner and the editor-in-chief of WholeFamily. Toby is an educator, journalist, photographer, scriptwriter, poet, playwright, lyricist, and theater director, including for populations that have experienced trauma or are at risk. She is a Playback Theater conductor and is the recipient of Israel's Ministry of Education's Egerest Award for Culture, for her work in educational and community theater. She has more than 30 years of teaching experience and has served on numerous educational think tanks. Her specialties include the creation of innovative educational programs, and teaching Creative Writing and Film to AD(H)D and LD high school students, and to senior citizens. Toby is married to Yaakov and they have six children, most of whom have made her a proud mother-in-law and grandmother.
Naomi Baum, PhD.
Naomi Baum is the Director of the Resilience Unit at The Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma and the National School Resilience Project. Her work at ICTP focuses on developing programs to build resilience in communities that have been highly exposed to trauma and stress. She has successfully brought her approach to Biloxi, Mississippi in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Her work there included seven visits to the city, she trained teachers, social workers, school nurses, and counselors. She has also worked with the population in Haiti following teh earthquake. She has written about Trauma and Resilience in several published articles and books.
Esther Boylan Wolfson
Esther Wolfson , director of our Early Childhood Development Center is an Early Childhood Specialist, who received her BA in English Communications from Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University and an MA in Early Childhood Special Education from Teachers College, Columbia University, both in New York City. Esther worked as a pre-school special education teacher for seven years. Three of those years were spent working in a school for language delayed pre-schoolers, which is her area of specialty. Another special love of hers is cooking with young children. One of her most enjoyable projects was developing a program for cooking with pre-school children for three special education programs. Esther and her husband Myles have three boys aged eight, five and two-years-old. While her three lively boys and her work at WholeFamily, keep her quite busy, in her spare time (if she ever has any!) she is an avid reader who also enjoys creative writing, exercising and swimming.
Ruth Lockshin
Ruth Lockshin, freelance writer and editor, was born and raised in Chicago, has a BA in history from Brandeis University and currently lives in Toronto. She was a breast-feeding counselor for 15 years. She and her husband, Professor Marty Lockshin, have four children and a growing brood of grandchildren. She is also proud to be known as the daughter of the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, author of Confessions of a Medical Heretic and How to Raise A Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor.
