Christopher Bogart founded The Southfield Center for Development — offering behavioral health services for children and teens — in 2009 after he built a similar practice in Stamford, with Maud Purcell, who today runs The Life Solution Center of Darien.
Bogart, 58, is also president of the board of directors for Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, a nonprofit that provides families services across four Connecticut chapters. He is a Georgetown University graduate with a Ph.D in psychology from American University, with his post-doctorate work at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. He later worked at the Rockland Children’s Psychiatric Center in Orangeburg, N.Y.
A resident of Norwalk, Bogart grew up in the Philadelphia area as the fifth of six children, with his mom an elementary school teacher and his sister prodding him toward studying special education in college, her own field.
At Southfield, he’s credited with creating an atmosphere that’s nurturing for clients and employees alike, a culture that helped him win the top leadership award among small employers in the Hearst Connecticut Media Top Workplaces contest for 2019.
How did you go about building The Southfield Center’s culture?
When we first opened up, we were a loosely knit organization of different and separate businesses — one that did tutoring, one that did occupational therapy, one that did speech-and-language therapy. And what we found was that while we were providing great services to the kids, there wasn’t a lot of integration of the staff. If you needed someone to do something outside of the typical, they wouldn’t necessarily step up to the plate.
We really were in a situation where everybody [was] ... part not only of the...
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