Infant parent mental health postgraduate certificate program

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MassAIMH TRAINING COMMITTEE MISSION
Resources & Links
We know that many of you working with young children and families might also be using this time of isolation to focus on your professional development. We hope to support you in this by continuing to provide online learning opportunities to further build capacity and a common understanding of the mental health and wellness of infants and young children.
From the Oregon Public Health Division

MassAIMH TRAINING COMMITTEE MISSION

The mission of the MassAIMH training committee is to promote education and training for cross-sector, inter disciplinary, infant, early childhood and family practitioners on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health and the promotion of healthy social/emotional development.

The committee will provide:

Updated links to information on local training and local and national conferences in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Links to other state-wide WAIMH affiliates with training sites

Contact Committee Chair

Resources & Links

To access a list of trainings in Massachusetts, click here

The 2019 Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Professional Development Resource Guide contains 182 trainings offered by 26 agencies for cross-systems professionals working with infants, young children, and their families. The IECMH Professional Development Resource Guide links the original framework of promotion, prevention, intervention, and treatment tiers of supports with MassAIMH’s Competency Guidelines towards MassAIMH Endorsement. MassAIMH purchased the license to the Michigan (MI-AIMH) competency system and formed a Competency Task Force that helped develop this Compendium. The guide includes training opportunities for both paraprofessionals and professionals with a variety of credentials and educational backgrounds, from individuals with associates degrees to advanced-practice clinicians with masters and/or doctoral degrees. Professionals from multiple disciplines including early childhood educators, social workers, home visitors, nurses, physicians, family support providers, mental health clinicians and others, can find trainings relevant to their scope of practice.
With funding from the US Department of Education Race to the Top Early Learning Challenge Grant (RTTT), Department of Mental Health in partnership with the Children’s Behavioral Health Initiative and the Department of Early Education and Care, developed a guidebook for early childhood educators on infant and early childhood mental health resources and services in Massachusetts. While the audience for the guidebook is early childhood educators it contains information and resources useful to others working with very young children and their families. Download a copy of the guidebook

Free Online Trainings

We know that many of you working with young children and families might also be using this time of isolation to focus on your professional development. We hope to support you in this by continuing to provide online learning opportunities to further build capacity and a common understanding of the mental health and wellness of infants and young children.

We are grateful to our IECMH colleagues across the country and world for access to free online trainings.

National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
Pediatric Nutrition: Who is at risk and how can we help? Presented by: Kimberly C. Brown, MD, FAAP
Dr. Bob Emde’s talk from World Association of Infant Mental Health congress 2016

From the Oregon Public Health Division

Introduction to Trauma Informed Care for the Children, Caregivers and Ourselves

Building Resiliency through co-regulation in the face of human fragility

In State Training Resources and Organizations

Brazelton Touchpoints Center The Brazelton Touchpoints Center offers innovative, strength-based interventions and practices to equip and engage families, caregivers, and practitioners across sectors to successfully support all domains of children’s development essential to successful early learning and lifelong success. The Brazelton Touchpoints Center works in the U.S. and abroad with public agencies, non-profits, hospitals, home visitors, private practices, early childhood settings, tribal services, statewide initiatives, and professional training in institutions of higher education. The Brazelton Touchpoints Center offers professional development hours in many areas, including Brazelton Touchpoints training and Brazelton Institute Newborn Behavioral Observations (NBO). Touchpoints is a neuro-developmental, evidence-based approach for supporting healthy family functioning and optimal child development ages 0-6. As family-centered, relationship-focused, and strength based models, Touchpoints and NBO training are essential for infant mental health (IMH) providers.
Connected Beginnings Training Institute The Connected Beginnings Training Institute provides, coordinates, and evaluates professional development and training efforts aimed at enhancing the social and emotional well-being of young children within their families, their communities, and their early care and education programs. Training opportunities are listed on their website under Training Calendar.
The Infant-Parent Training Institute: Postgraduate Fellowship & Certificate Program: The Infant-Parent Training Institute, situated within the Center for Early Relationship Support of Jewish Family and Children’s Service, offers integrated clinical and theoretical training in infant mental health to professionals from multiple disciplines. Offerings include a two year Infant-Parent Clinical Mental Health Fellowship, year long Infant Observation course, Maternal Mental Health and half-day Master Classes. IPTI courses explore the interface of theory and clinical practice; central to all of our offerings are the opportunities for observation and reflection and the understanding of development as embedded in relationships, community and culture. Our training institute includes exceptional faculty with expertise in research, clinical work with very young children and parents; small classes with opportunities for case based discussions; opportunities for clinical experience in infant-parent psychotherapy; reflective mentoring and supervision; a community of colleagues with common interests and diverse perspectives. For more information please visit website.
University of Massachusetts, Boston: Infant-Parent Mental Health Postgraduate Fellowship & Certificate Program: A two-year (bimonthly weekend meetings), highly acclaimed program advancing the quality of mental health services for infants and young children in the context of their earliest relationships. Fellows spend 12 intensive, interactive three-day weekends, learning directly from world luminaries, who in the past have included Chief Faculty, Ed Tronick, T. Berry Brazelton, Dan Siegel, Bruce Perry, Charles Zeanah, Joy Osofsky, Beatrice Beebe, Peter Fonagy, and many more. An interdisciplinary professional fellowship open to physicians, psychologists, nurses, psychotherapists, educators, social workers, SLPs, OTs, PTs, and others working with children age 0-5 and their parents. Prepares professionals for endorsement as an infant-family and early childhood mental health specialist in a growing number of states. For more information, and to download our application, please visit their website.

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