Below are comments from The Harlem Family Institute: Board Members, Staff, School Adimistrators, and Candidates.

"This institute will breathe new life into the psychoanalytic movement... A place where visionary men and women can learn in freedom."
Robert Coles M.D.
A founding and present HFI Board Member

"There are great strengths in the people of Harlem; strengths passed from generation to generation despite deep suffering. This Institute will teach new therapists to recognize those strengths, and build on them toward a growing capacity for love."
Margaret Morgan Lawrence M.D.
A founding and present HFI Board Member; Distingusihed Pediatrician, Child Psychiatrist, and Psychoanalyst

"The Harlem Family Institute has re-energized an elapsed tradition in psychoanalytic history, namely therapeutic services to children and families in poverty and low-income neighborhoods. Our school-based, clinical outreach is founded on the living human curriculum—a creative training experience that encourages diversity, connection, and long-term preventive care in the Harlem community."
Claude Barbre M.Phil., Executive Director

"Our community's appreciation can readily be noted. All you have to do is observe the expression on a child's face as she/he eagerly walks alongside their 'person', ready for their special time. Or see the hope growing in the hearts and minds of their teachers and parents who realize that positive possibilities have increased for their most vulnerable child/student."
Sid Massey AP/Director, River East Elementary School

"My training at HFI was definitely life-changing. While it was academically stimulating, it is the idea of working with a population that otherwise would never be exposed to psychoanalytic work that is revolutionary. My classmates used to joke that we were like therapists without borders."
Ines Gonzales HFI graduate

"I chose to train at HFI because it was a unique opportunity for me to study and sharpen my clinical skills while giving something back to the New York community."
Anonymous HFI graduate

"I enjoy empowering people to become independent and being able to see a sense of self accomplishment. The Harlem Family Institute feels like the place to develop my skills, and give back to the community that gave me so much."
Margaret Giles current HFI trainee

"Particular aspects of being a jazz pianist and music teacher spoke to my initial decision to turn toward social work, and particularly with children. There was the sence of intimate collabortion. There was the belief that I was playing and teaching to heal others."
Rebecca Kane current HFI trainee

"Psychoanalytic psychotherapy has always been a goal of mine, and at HFI the opportunity has finally arrived that affords me a chance to pursue this goal, and also benefit in empowering individuals within the community that I serve."
Annette Rochester current HFI trainee