Please consider nominating your colleagues, mentors or heroes for Div. 37’s Nicholas Hobbs Award or Distinguished Contribution to Child Advocacy Award!
The Nicholas Hobbs Award can be presented each year to a psychologist who exemplifies the ideals and devotion to child advocacy/policy characterized by Nicholas Hobbs. Hobbs was a charter member of Div. 37 whose life and work represented the values of the division. Hobbs was the first director of the John F. Kennedy Center for Research on Education and Human Development at George Peabody College; provost of Vanderbilt University (1967-75); and then became the director of the Center for the Study of Families and Children at the Vanderbilt University Institute for Public Policy Studies.
His legacy and work continue today through the Nicholas Hobbs Laboratory of Human Development on the Peabody-Vanderbilt campus. During Hobbs’ era, he developed Project ReEd — a controlled research model for children with emotional and behavioral problems — a program model subsequently adopted in several states. He also helped develop innovative research and training programs, and subsequent policy changes, for children with special needs. Hobbs' work also extended to the Peace Corps where he was the first director of selection and research for the Peace Corps.
Hobbs’ work and contributions led APA to award him the Distinguished Professional Contributions Award and the Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest Award. He also served as president of APA. Graduates who have worked with Nicholas Hobbs loved his courses and found him to be a superb role model and outstanding professor and mentor.
Recent past recipients of this award:
- 2018 - Jodi Quas
- 2017 - John Eckenrode
- 2016 - Patrick Tolan
- 2015 - Sandra Graham-Bermann
- 2014 - Michael Roberts
- 2013 - Larke Huang
The Distinguished Contribution to Child Advocacy Award can be presented each year to a non-psychologist who has made significant contributions to advocacy on behalf of children, youth, and families.
Recent past recipients of this award:
- 2017 - Kelly Kelleher
- 2016 - Richard Barth
- 2015 - Donald Hernandez
- 2014 - Desmond Runyan
- 2010 - Ellen Bassuk
All interested parties are invited to submit nominations. Current members of the Div. 37 Board of Directors are ineligible to be nominated. More information about Div. 37 awards can be found here.
For all nominees, please submit a letter of nomination, curriculum vitae, two letters of support, and other pertinent supporting materials as desired to: Jennifer Kaminski, 2019 past president. Materials received by Dec. 31, 2018, can be included in this year’s review process.
