Who We Are

Thank you for visiting the CHILD Scale website! The CHILD® is owned by CHILD Research and Education Consulting LLC. Dr. Chin Reyes, Ph.D., and Dr. Walter Gilliam, Ph.D., both faculty at Yale University, are equity owners of the CHILD LLC. 

Chin Reyes, Ph.D.

is director of the CHILD Program and a Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center (Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy unit). She directs the research, training, and professional development around the CHILD Tool. 

Walter Gilliam, Ph.D.

is the Elizabeth Mears and House Jameson Professor of Child Psychiatry and Psychology at the Yale University Child Study Center, as well as the Director of The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy. He developed the CHILD Tool’s predecessor, the Preschool Mental Health Climate Scale. 

This website would not have been possible without the significant contributions of our partners:

Adrián Cerezo, PhD, MESc

is a visiting researcher at The Edward Zigler Center in Child Development and Social Policy. He serves as global sustainable development and translational policy consultant for UNICEF, Senior Social Ecology Research Fellow at City as Living Laboratory, and Senior Knowledge Platform and Visualization Design Fellow for the Early Childhood Development Action Network (ECDAN). 

Abby Hemenway Deaver, MAT, EdM 

is the CHILD® Program Administrator at the Yale Child Study Center where she coordinates and leads trainings related to the CHILD® Tool for researchers and practitioners across disciplines.

Valerie Zielinski

is Senior Administrative Assistant at the Yale Child Study Center where she provides invaluable administrative and technical support to the CHILD Team.

Madeline Klotz

is the CHILD® Research Coordinator at the Yale Child Study Center. Among her many responsibilities is coordination of statewide randomized controlled trials of CHILD-informed early childhood mental health consultation services.

Nancy Close, Ph.D.

is an Assistant Professor at the Yale Child Study Center, a child development and infant and young child mental health specialist, a clinician for young children and their families, and an early childhood educator. 

We would also like to acknowledge the support and contributions of Erika Christakis, M.P.H, M.A., M.Ed., Carla Horwitz, MS, Dip. Ed., Ed.D., and Pilar Alamos, Ph.D.