North Carolina Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Association (NCIMHA)

Brazelton Touchpoints Center is offering another Workshop beginning May 1st. This workshop is titled Supporting Healthy Social, Emotional, and Relational Development! To register and find out more information use the link below. https://lnkd.in/gGSjsFya

Brazelton Touchpoints Center has an upcoming Strengths-Based Family Engagement Workshop beginning on May 6th! If you are interested, use the link below to register and to learn more! https://lnkd.in/g9c8mgxX

Please enjoy this brief video on Reflective Supervision/Consultation (RSC) for our friends at the South Carolina Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association (SCIMHA)! Our Association offers a variety of programming on RSC including: ✨Introductory Training ✨ Learning Collaboratives for professionals to develop the necessary skills to provide RSC ✨ Advanced Practice Trainings for current RSC providers continue to grow their skills ✨ Endorsement as a Reflective Supervision/Consultation Provider and more!

The North Carolina Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association (NCIMHA) recognizes that reflective supervision and consultation are essential for delivering high-quality services to infants, toddlers, young children, and their caregivers. To support providers in implementing and enhancing this practice, we offer a variety of learning opportunities. We invite you to join us for one or both of our virtual training sessions in May, designed to help current reflective supervision and consultation providers deepen their knowledge and skills. Deepening Reflective Supervision: The JUST Framework for Meaningful Connections and Growth with Dr. Harleen Hutchinson, IMH-E® | Friday May 9, 2025 from 9am-12pm EST via Zoom https://lnkd.in/g8DcBzz3 Reflective Supervision/Consultation and Coaching: Exploring Connections & Distinctions with Lisa Cloninger, LCSW and Angie Phipps, IMH-E® | Friday May 16, 2025 from 9am-12pm EST via Zoom https://lnkd.in/gGWX846s NCIMHA Members: $35 | General Admission $50 Use the links above or the QR codes below for more information and to register! Please feel free to reach out to Jessica.TaylorPickford@NCIMHA with questions or for additional information.

If you missed our webinar in January from this HOPE team, here is another opportunity to learn about this new framework! This Webinar is happening April 9th from 10am-11:30am via zoom! Topic: Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences Framework You have heard about ACES- Adverse Childhood Experiences and the negative consequences for our communities. But what are the next steps you can take? Introducing the solution of HOPE! Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences. Don't miss out on this informative webinar! Use the link below to register: https://lnkd.in/g8-J7spp

Congratulations, Shannon L. McCool, MS CCC-SLP, ITFS, Mentor Coach! Shannon served 27 years as a hospital based (acute care) Speech-Language Pathologist, the Covid Pandemic wore her soul completely out. Like many others, she witnessed quite a lot of sadness during the pandemic. Ultimately, Shannon found she needed to make a career change to improve her own mental wellbeing. Her long-time friend of 30+ years, Ms. Kay Clark-James, had been encouraging her to consider early intervention with the Children's Developmental Services Agency (CDSA). Ms. Kay Clark-James had been working on recruiting Shannon for a number of years. As she always emphasized, the State Of North Carolina offers substantially more benefits. In addition, the work load is no where near as demanding as 12-hour days on your feet in a hospital surrounded by the loss of life related to the pandemic. So in January 2021, Shannon joined the CDSA which is under the Department of Health and Human Services/Division of Child & Family Wellbeing. Her role with the CDSA is to provide evaluations to children and families to determine eligibility for the North Carolina Infant Toddler Program. In addition, she assist the CDSA Service Coordinators as a provider (of last resort) for speech-language services (including dysphagia or swallowing difficulties) for the numerous children/families that are served in the five counties that they cover. In summary, Shannon finds herself humbly grateful to her dear friend, Ms. Kay Clark-James for this delightful career transition. She now has time to develop new knowledge, more skills, and, most importantly, wonderful relationships with the infant/toddlers, families (caregivers), as well as with the wonderful colleagues that she works with.  "My personal and professional moto is that knowledge and the opportunity to learn should never end. My hope is to learn something new each day. I also hope to make changes in my own life each day that make me not only a better person but also a better professional. My education started in the 80s and my work history started in the 90s. As I move closer toward the end of my working career, pursuing Endorsement provided me with both new learning opportunities for my professional life as well as with opportunities to make personal changes with my actions and my thinking." - Shannon Thank you for all of your hard work Shannon!

Check out this webinar: Understanding Racism's Impact on Child Development: Working Towards Fairness of Place in the United States In this webinar, a panel of experts, including CARE Co-Director Stephanie Curenton, PhD, discuss the impact of racism on child development and lifelong health. The panelists share strategies for dismantling systemic barriers and working toward solutions that promote healthy child development Follow the link to view this recorded webinar on Youtube: https://lnkd.in/g5jmci_U

Webinar coming up on April 10th at 2pm! Maternal and Child Health and Mental Well-Being: Cornerstones of a Thriving Community. The health and mental health of mothers, birthing parents, and fathers form the foundation of a child’s well-being, a family’s stability, and a thriving community. Yet, for too many—especially in historically marginalized communities—maternal health outcomes are overshadowed by preventable complications, high mortality and morbidity rates, and systemic failures that leave families without the care and support they deserve. Use the link below to register. https://lnkd.in/gk-eYTCN

If you missed the webinar, "How to Build a Bridge: Policy, Practice, Relationships in Cross-Systems Collaboration", you can find the recording and slides at: https://lnkd.in/gE2Rq2Ek If you need help with your XChange account, please contact pn3xchange@buildinitative.org.

Let the Governor's newly created Child Care Task Force know what you think about child care in North Carolina! Complete this brief survey and share widely with families, professionals and businesses! https://lnkd.in/eGJrCPPN