Florida Association for Infant Mental Health

Presents...

(Re)Centering Relationships: Diversity-Informed Practice, Justice, Compassion, & Healing

Session Description:

Global and national events over the past few years offered momentum for the movement to address long standing systemic inequities by expanding conversations of historical and present day barriers to opportunities and resources, shifting understanding about the lives of those who have been and are disproportionately affected, and increasing knowledge and access to engage in individual and collective healing.

This session centers a diversity-informed perspective of relationships and the implications for our healing work as infant and early childhood mental health professionals. From this relational lens, we consider the prenatal, infant, and early childhood neurophysiological developmental processes as adaptation to our social, cultural, economic, and political environments.

We’ll review and reflect on the ways in which relationships in the dominant U.S. culture influences our brain architecture and stress response systems and explore how these influences increase the likelihood that experiences of adversity and stress become traumatic. Our understanding of development as a function of relational adaptation provides insight to utilizing relationships to facilitate individual and collective healing for the children, families, and communities we support and for ourselves.

Learning Objectives:

• Summarize Diversity-Informed Practice and related core concepts

• Define healing and trauma from a interpersonal neurophysiological developmental perspective

• Begin to apply a relational adaptation lens to our work to support healing for children, families, communities, and ourselves

• Explore new and existing approaches to individual and collective healing that centers being in “right” relationship

Trainer: Nucha Isarowong, Ph.D., LICSW, IMH-E®

Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E® is Director of the Advanced Clinical Training (ACT) Program at the Barnard Center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at the University of Washington. In this current role, he works to diversify and expand the infant and early childhood mental health clinical and consultation workforce in the state of Washington by centering relationships, experiences of people and communities targeted for oppression, and principles of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in program administration, curriculum, and delivery. As a part of this work, he engages in efforts towards systems change by influencing multi-level systems integration of diversity-informed practice principles in the IECMH field. Nucha is a ZERO TO THREE Fellow (2012-2013) and a member of the Academy of ZERO TO THREE Fellows Coordinating Council. He serves as a board member for Profectum Foundation and a national workshop facilitator and member of the Executive and Curriculum Committee for the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families (Tenets) Initiative.

Event Time:  

May 16th, 2024 

1:00 PM-4:00 PM Eastern/ 12-3 PM Central/ 11 AM-2 PM Mountain/ 10-1 PM Pacific

Location is online via Zoom

Zoom link info will be sent to paid registrants several times beginning one week before the training begins.

Open to:  All professionals who work with infants, young children and their families.

Supports Endorsement: 

This training can count as DEIB Training (Cultural Humility Competency) for both Endorsement Applications and Renewals.

Registration

"Agency + Training Support" Members: Free Slots Available to register email Training Coordinator Jamie Dolan at training@faimh.org

All Other FAIMH Members: $95

Non-Member Rate: $115

Late Registration Rate (Starts April 24th to May 10th): $130

Need CEUs?

Add-on the CEU Ticket for only $20 to receive 3 hours of Continuing Education for Social Work, Marriage & Family, Mental Health or Psychology (see below for more CEU information)

Technology Requirements:

To ensure the best possible experience for all participants, the program relies on online video conferencing, which has minimum requirements to work properly. You will need a desktop or laptop computer with speakers, microphone, and webcam, and a high-speed internet connection. Laptops work best because they come with all the necessary equipment and can easily be moved from room to room in your home or office to find a quiet place.

• Review the system requirements for the Zoom online meeting platform
• Try out a test meeting
• Test your audio and video in the meeting

Certificate: Upon successful completion of the training, a certificate of completion will be earned. A certificate will only be provided to those who attended the full training session (2 hours).

CEUs: Continuing education (3 hours) for licensed clinical social workers, marriage & family therapists, and mental health counselors will be offered by the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health, an approved provider for continuing education by the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Mental Health Counseling (CE Provider #50-30846).

Continuing education (3 hours) for psychologists will be offered by the Florida Association for Infant Mental Health, an approved provider for continuing education by the Florida Board of Psychology (CE Provider # 50-30846).

Professionals in other related disciplines, as well as those working outside of Florida, can submit CEU certificates to their corresponding boards for independent approval. Actual CEU amounts will be dependent upon your specific licensure board and attendance.

Policies: View our Training Academy Policy on attendance, payment, cancellation and more.

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