2023 CoE Conference: Equity from the Start

A panel of IECMHC leaders will engage in a cross-cultural dialogue that will look back on the 2020 series and examine equity in IECMHC in our nation's current context.

Speakers: Lisa Gordon; Dawn A. Yazzie; Christina Shea; Angela Keyes; San Juanita Guerra, MA, LPC

Experience and empirical evidence is identifying Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation’s potential to be a potent promoter of equity.

Speakers: Eva Marie Shivers; German Walteros, LMFT; Dawn A. Yazzie; Kadija Johnston

Addressing equity across the early childhood system: How Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation is being implemented across a variety of early childhood settings.

Speakers: Neal Horen; Dallas Rabig; Nicola Edge; Deborah Chalmers; Mary Margaret Gleason

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation is a foundational service that supports multiple services, often across multiple systems.

Speakers: Misty Cole; Angie Gibbs

In 2020, the Sacramento County Office of Education partnered with the Sacramento County Department of Health Services to place a mental health clinician in each of our 385 public schools in our County.

Speakers: Stephanie Gomez

This workshop will provide information on how to interact, partner with, and value families and children who are culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse.

Speakers: Dominique Calloway; Amber Smith-Williams, MA, M.Ed., LPC, RDT

This presentation will describe recent program evaluation findings of the statewide TIKES IECMHC program in Louisiana.

Speakers: Allison Trigg; Kendyl Brunet; Angela Keyes; Sherryl Heller

Speakers of this session will share the experiences of a grass roots approach to fund the only infant and early childhood mental health consultation programing in their community.

Speakers: Jennifer Hughes; Lisa Negrini; Toshiko Pinckney

Speakers: Hoda Shawky; David Willis, MD; Mary Mackrain

This presentation examines the disproportionate rate of African American boys and other children of color represented in Pre-K suspensions, expulsions and discrimination throughout the nation.

Speakers: Tameka Thompson, LPC; Elisha Gandhi, LCSW

Explore how the inclusion of Johari's Window in reflective supervision and practices could help increase reflective capacity, and deepen the reflective practice experience.

Speakers: Robert Harris

During this informative session, you will learn about New Mexico's process of developing a statewide IECMHC Program.

Speakers: Elizabeth Groginsky; Kassandra Gonzales

Our hope for this session is to offer participants an opportunity to reflect on how we might move together (and sometimes separately) to transform our work in IECMHC by applying and embodying a strong anti-racist lens.

Speakers: Eva Marie Shivers; Natasha Pérez Byars; Jayley Janssen

Associations of Infant Mental Health (AIMHs) have become a workforce development hub for the infant and early childhood mental health workforce in their states.

Speakers: Kelli Celsor; Erin Henderson Lacerdo; Ashley Bowers

In this presentation participants will engage in an in-depth conversation about the ways that IECMHC can be a disrupter of bias, specifically through reflective supervision.

Speakers: Sherryl Heller; Leah Eckley; Evandra Catherine; Jordyn Rand

Outcomes of IECMHC are protection and promotion of health and well-being of children and adults.

Speakers: Michelle Hammack; Jayley Janssen; Tawanna Jennings

Colorado offers ECMH Consultation services anywhere children age birth to 6 years learn and grow, including elementary schools, home visitation, child welfare, public health, health care, home settings, and more.

Speakers: Lisa Schlueter; Christine O'Brien; Ashley Sward

In the IECMHC field, it is well known that Black boys in early childhood settings are suspended or expelled at much higher rates than their White counterparts, and IECMHC is linked with reduced suspension and expulsion rates.

Speakers: Laura Latta; Kaya Swann, MSW, LMSW; Nyrobi Tyson

The story of Tennessee’s IECMHC work is one of relationships.

Speakers: Kelli Celsor; Katherine Bell; Taylor Thurnau

In the recent evolution of Caregiver Connections' Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC) program, we have begun trying to infuse a DEIB Lens in each area of the work we do as a program.

Speakers: Margaret Mosca; Karen Robbins

Challenging behavior is developmentally expected for young children; however, adult perceptions influence our understanding and response.

Speakers: Rachel Stein

Join me as I explore how training as a mental health professional supports the work of an Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant.

Speakers: Corinna Crandall, LMFT, IMHE (she/her)

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on children and families, deepening disparities and inequities.

Speakers: Grace Schoessow; Lillian McCree; Lindsay Green

The presentation's foundation is derived from Dr. Katherine M. Zinsser’s research on Illinois preschool suspension and expulsion.

Speakers: La'Tasha Lee; Christine Brambila

Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation is founded on the "Consultative Stance" which is centered on building, nourishing, and maintaining positive and responsive relationships with the adults we are directly working with and those (adults and children) who are indirectly impacted by our work.

Speakers: Sandy Avzaradel; Rhysa Suh; Kim Versluis

The well-being, equitable support, and retention of Early Childhood educators is in urgent need of intentionally focused attention, especially for educators who identify as Black, Brown, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC).

Speakers: Angela Wilson; Brenda Williamson; Valerie Jarvis McMillan

In this presentation, we will briefly cover topics such as attachment, mental health, and stressors that could impact the ability to form and maintain relationships.

Speakers: Tessa Miller; Melissa Puskar

This workshop presentation will feature research and evaluation resources from the Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (CoE for IECMHC), covering topics such as writing an IECMHC evaluation plan and measuring IECMHC.

Speakers: Deborah Perry; Lisa Hepburn; Jordyn Rand

This workshop presentation explores the transformative potential of qualitative research and evaluation in promoting equity within the context of early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC).

Speakers: Kaela Tidus; Sasha Miller Marshall; Shubhi Sachdeva

In their workshop, “You Are My Other Me," First-Generation and BIPOC-affirming practitioners Sunny Cho and Jenny Lopez delve into the transformative power of Reflective Consultation Groups in the realm of Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation.

Speakers: Jenny Lopez; Sunny Cho

Explore parenting practices from cultures worldwide and which of these practices triggers implicit biases.

Speakers: Amanda Holliday-Bembridge

With the current growth in the practice of this kind of IECMH Consultation, it is important to keep fidelity.

Speakers: Dawn A. Yazzie

San Francisco’s IECMHC (SF-ECMHC) Initiative is recognized for its grounding in cultural practice and cultural communities and for holding lasting consultation relationships.

Speakers: Jayley Janssen; Elia Dominguez; German Walteros

Please join us for an experiential session where you will have the opportunity to try out a unique self-reflective practice tool that you can bring to your work with peers and mentors.

Speakers: Maya Coleman; Emily Murray; Pamala Trivedi

The Jump Start Early Childhood Consultation Program is currently in its 5th year of implementation.

Speakers: Eva Marie Shivers; Maite Schenker; Emperatriz Guzmán, LMHC, IMH-E

Join us as we explore Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Model.

Speakers: Robert Harris; Angela Williams, EdS

While there has been increased attention on the importance of having a racially and culturally diverse workforce, much of the IECMHC workforce nationally are White women, and recruitment and retention of BIPOC staff is something many programs struggle to achieve.

Speakers: Laura Latta; Kaya Swann, MSW, LMSW

This workshop showcases the results of a consensus-building study that defined the core IECMHC activities, emphasizing relationships and equity.

Speakers: Kaela Tidus; Annie Davis Schoch; Evandra Catherine

We look at the Illinois Association for Infant Mental Health’s (ILAIMH) workforce development system, focusing the IECMH Competencies and learning how they have been revised to inform thinking and advance DEIBJ (diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging and justice) principles in practice.

Speakers: Laura Hansen; Lynn Liston

Please join us for a brief overview of DC's Healthy Futures program.

Speakers: Stephen O'Connor; Monique Douglas, MSW, LMFT, RPT

Storytelling has the power to transform IECMH Consultation, by deepening reflective capacity, connections and resilience.

Speakers: Grace Schoessow; Lillian McCree; Lindsay Green

A brief narrative session talking about how managers in the IECMH field can improve efficiency and increase equity within their teams.

Speakers: Jonas Cooper

Trauma exposure is common among populations served by Head Start.

Speakers: Emily Tilstra-Ferrell; Lauren Henry