Monica Osgood

Monica Osgood is Co-Founder and Executive Director of Celebrate the Children school and Executive Director of the Developmental Center for Children and Families. In 1998, Monica created the first public school program based on the Developmental Individual Relationship-Based (DIR®) approach. In 2004, she collaborated with Lauren Blaszak to open a state-approved school for children ages 3-21 in northern New Jersey also based on the DIR® framework. She was a member of the ICDL advisory board and joined the ICDL institute faculty in 2001. Currently, Monica is the Executive Director of the Profectum Foundation, a non-profit organization that aspires to define the Foundational Capacities of Development as a framework for integrating different intervention approaches and to train hundreds of thousands of parents and practitioners around the world. Additional accomplishments include many speaking engagements at conferences and participation in television, radio, and newspaper interviews across the USA, Wales, Ireland, and the Netherlands. Monica and the Celebrate the Children school were featured in a TIME Magazine cover story in May of 2006. Most recently, she collaborated with Grammy® Nominated children's artists Dan Myers and Brady Rymer on an album and music video celebrating diversity in children with all abilities.