Our Policy & Advocacy
Judge Baker Children's Center’s policy and advocacy work is dedicated to building awareness of child and adolescent mental health issues and to helping discover, apply, and sustain innovative and collaborative solutions that improve the social, emotional, and behavioral well being of children and families.
The Media Center
Director: Alvin F. Poussaint, MD
Associate Director: Susan Linn, Ed.D.
Program Administrator: Barbara B. Sweeny
Founded in 1994, our Media Center generates and consults on publications, productions and events designed to promote the health and well-being of children and to prevent mental and physical illness. Read more.
Read articles written by Media Center staff.
Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood
Headquartered at the Judge Baker Children's Center, Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood (formerly Stop the Commercial Exploitation of Children) is a national coalition of health care professionals, educators, advocacy groups and concerned parents who counter the harmful effects of marketing to children through action, advocacy, education, research, and collaboration.
Concerned about marketing to children? Visit the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood website.
New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors
Since 1984, Judge Baker Children’s Center has served as home base for the New England Association of Child Welfare Commissioners and Directors, a consortium of child welfare agency leaders from Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Agency leaders created the Association in an effort to develop and implement consistent policies that promote competent child welfare practices across state lines. Read more.