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Message from the Pikler/Lóczy Fund USA Board of Directors

On behalf of the PLUSA Board of Directors, we would like to thank all of you for writing to the Hungarian government about how the Pikler Institute has influenced your work with children and professionals in the early childhood field all over the world. In this newsletter, we have reprinted some of your remarks. Please go to our website to read some of the letters in their entirety. Although the Pikler Institute is now closed, PLUSA is continuing its work. The Pikler Associations around the world are growing stronger and more committed than ever.

• The Pikler network in South America (Nuestra America) is organizing many special trainings and conferences in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. In Ecuador, Bernard Josse and Etienne Moine have made a film "GRANDIR" about AMI children's home in Pifo, Ecuador managed by Maria and Etienne. You can read about AMI in Child Care Information Exchange Magazine which is posted on our website, or consulting AMI website: www.fundacionami.org.ec.
• One of our board members, Agnes Szanto from Paris has written a Spanish language book about the Pikler approach to infant movement.
• Pikler trainings are going on in England and Germany.
• Anna Tardos, the Director of the Pikler Institute has written an article for Child Care Information Exchange and will be writing more articles about infants for the magazine. She also wrote several articles for the Signal (International Infant Mental Health Assoc. newsletter).
• One of our board members, Janet Gonzalez-Mena is going to be the keynote speaker at a conference in Sao Paulo Brazil in November, 2011.
• We are translating and publishing a piece of work done by Dr. Judit Falk (the previous director of the Pikler Institute). The article is about the practice of "tummy time". This should be available for purchase before the end of 2011.
• There will be another English Pikler Training Institute in June, 2012 in Budapest, Hungary.
• Anna Tardos and Agnes Szanto will be coming to the USA in October, 2012 for a Pikler Intensive III training.
• We are collaborating with the government of Belize to provide training for orphanage workers in Belize and Central America in October, 2012.
• There will be an International Infant and Toddler Conference in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 2013, April 11-13, 2013.

The times are changing, and there are many opportunities for us to continue to learn and grow from the work and research that is being done and has been done by practitioners of Dr. Pikler's approach. We can only continue doing the work that Dr. Emmi Pikler began in the 1930s. We want to make sure that her influence and the work of the clinicians at the Pikler Institute continues to make a difference in the lives of children throughout the world.
From our heart to yours, Pikler/Lóczy Fund USA, Board of Directors

Read "Being with Babies" by Anna Tardos.

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