The Equity Chat Series is designed to provide a forum to further dialogue on equity topics in order to support more equitable systems and strengthen culturally responsive IECMHC practices to reduce disparities and improve child outcomes.

Equity Chat Series: Unpacking the Revised Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Competencies

This Equity Chat series includes eight consecutive sessions that will delve deeper into the revised IECMHC Competencies(Opens in new tab)(Opens in new tab) to examine the IECMH consultant’s role in supporting equity in IECMHC. Each session will focus on a specific competency and provide examples of ways IECMH consultants can address issues of equity to disrupt bias and disparities, and improve child outcomes. 

Competency 3: Equity and Cultural Sensitivity 

Originally Aired: November 4, 2021 | Handout

Presenters:

• Lisa Gordon, Project Director, Training & Technical Assistance, Children’s Equity Project
• Kadija Johnston LCSW, Private Consultant & Georgetown University Faculty

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Competency 2: Foundational Knowledge 

Originally Aired: October 12, 2021 | Handout

Presenters:

• Lisa Gordon, Project Director, Training & Technical Assistance, Children’s Equity Project
• Kadija Johnston LCSW, Private Consultant & Georgetown University Faculty

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Competency 1: The Role of the IECMHC Consultant

Originally Aired: September 30, 2021 | Handout

Presenters:

• Lisa Gordon, Project Director, Training & Technical Assistance, Children’s Equity Project
• Kadija Johnston LCSW, Private Consultant & Georgetown University Faculty

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Equity Chat on Systemic Racism and the Consultative Stance 

Originally Aired: April 19, 2021 | Webinar Handout

Studies suggest that Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation can be an effective equity practice. This forum will offer an opportunity to explore the mechanisms that make this possible. Specifically, we will ponder how the consultant’s way of being – the Consultative Stance – contributes to dismantling structural racism and other forms of oppression and supports equitable treatment of young children and their families.”

Presenters:

• Lisa Gordon, Project Director, Training & Technical Assistance, Children’s Equity Project
• Kadija Johnston LCSW, Private Consultant & Georgetown University Faculty

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Equity Chat on the IECMHC Equity Toolkit

Originally Aired: March 8, 2021 | Webinar Handout

Description: This month the COE will introduce the revised Equity Toolkit. We will review the components and format of the Equity Toolkit, so that mental health consultants, supervisors, etc. can use the resources in ways that deepen our awareness, understanding, and commitment to integrating a racial equity lens into all aspects of our IECMHC work.

Some of the themes covered in the Equity Toolkit and this month’s equity chat will include:

• Learn about disparities in the experiences of young children of color and children from other marginalized communities in early childhood settings.
• Explore the role of the consultant in supporting equity in IECMHC.
• Explore how to use the Equity Toolkit individually and with colleagues in order to understand how to support more equitable systems and strengthen culturally responsive IECMHC practices to reduce disparities and improve child outcomes.

  Presenters: 

• Shantel Meek, Founding Director of Children’s Equity Project (CEP)
• Eva Marie Shivers,  CEP Partners & Executive Director of Indigo Cultural Center

The Revised IECMHC Competencies: Examining the Role of the Consultant in Advancing Equity in IECMHC

Originally Aired: October 30, 2020 | Webinar Handout

Description: This first session will highlight the revised IECMHC Competencies and examine the role of the consultant in addressing issues of equity through IECMHC to disrupt bias and disparities and improve child outcomes.

  Presenters: 

• Lisa Gordon, Project Director, Training & Technical Assistance, Children’s Equity Project
• Dawn. A Yazzie, CEP Partner, Southwest Human Development