Dr. Nancy Cohen is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Handle with Care Project and Director of Research at the SickKids Centre for Community Mental Health (formerly known as Hincks-Dellcrest Institute). She is a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. Cohen is a researcher, clinician, and teacher who has written and spoken in areas related to child, adolescent and family mental health, attachment, language impairment, child and adolescent psychopathology and domestic and international adoption. She is one of the developers of the three Handle with Care programs designed to promote the mental health of infants and young children. Cohen has spoken and led workshops about children’s mental health for parents, educators, frontline caregivers and mental health professionals. She has a part-time private practice where she sees children, adolescents and their families.

Dr. Fataneh Farnia is the Co-Principal Investigator of the Handle with Care Project, funded by the Public Health Agency of Canada and one of the developers of the Handle with Care program designed to promote the mental health of infants and young children. Farnia is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development, and an Adjunct lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto. She has over two decades of experience conducting longitudinal research to investigate the early risk factors and adverse childhood experiences that may relate to later poor cognitive, language, social-emotional, and mental health outcomes. Her work focuses mainly on marginalized populations who live in socially and geographically isolated, hard-to-reach communities. Farnia is committed to evidence-based trauma-informed practices, quality improvement processes, and multi-disciplinary, interprofessional team efforts and collaborations. She is also a Registered Psychotherapist and sees children and youth (birth to 18-years-old), and their families.

Bonnie Pape is the Co-Investigator of the Handle with Care Project. For Bonnie Pape, the Handle with Care Mental Health Promotion Consultant, Handle with Care combines the two key directions of her education and career. After starting as a teacher in pre-school and primary school, she became a specialist in theory and implementation of mental health policy and programs. As Director of Programs and Research at the National Office of the Canadian Mental Health Association, Bonnie worked for 19 years on national projects with a mental health promotion perspective. She partnered with Nancy Cohen in 2002 to design and develop the Handle with Care for early childhood educators and has continued to help shape the growth and evolution of Handle with Care to the present day. Bonnie holds master’s degrees in both Education and Environmental Studies (Mental Health Policy).

Alice est devenue membre de l'équipe nationale d'À Maniupler avec Soin en juin 2017 et possède un large éventail d'expériences en tant que clinicienne et gestionnaire dans divers contextes de santé mentale pour adultes. Elle fait également partie du conseil d'administration d'une agence de garde en milieu familial à Toronto depuis plusieurs années et reconnaît l'importance de promouvoir des services de garde communautaires en milieu de soutien. En tant qu'ergothérapeute, Alice est inspirée par l'accent mis sur les activités de facilitation de l'apprentissage pour les parents et les tuteurs dans le programme À Manipuler avec Soin.