CT-AIMH 2018 Fall Conference

Conference Topic:

Promoting Racial Equity And Disrupting Bias:    What Does Infant Mental Health Have To Do With It? 

What role do we have as infant mental health professionals in closing racial disparities and reducing bias? We will come together for important conversations about racial equity and how personal, mindful transformation can translate into effective practice and policy.

Using Infant Mental Health frameworks and Diversity-Informed Tenets as an anchors, we will practice using 3 multiple lenses of personal, interpersonal and systemic approaches in exploring research, effective professional development strategies, professional relationships, and leadership.

Objectives:

1. Participants will be able to apply findings from research on implicit bias and early childhood to their reflections on their practices and program policies.
2. Participants will be able to apply elements of various mental health frameworks to their own capacity to enter into conversations about race and equity.
3. Participants will explore what it means to serve our communities with intention; while promoting exploration of equity within larger systems and institutions.

Anticipated Audience: 

Social workers, early interventionists, home visitors, early child care providers, clinicians, pediatricians, nurses, health professionals, child welfare, etc...