Past Events

Registration is OPEN, there are only a couple seats left! An Introduction to Infant Mental Health Theory and Practice for Home Visitors IMH 3-Day Training This training provides Infant Mental Health Home Visiting professionals the opportunity to share and learn about their work through video, group discussion, and clinical observations. participants will consider new ways of working with infants, toddlers, and families that support parent infant relationships. An overview of Infant Mental Health theory, attachment, strategies, assessment, and interventions will…

Registration is OPEN! 2020 Conference: Explorations in Development The Intersection of Sensory Processing Disorders & Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Sensation is the raw material mediating the formation of the earliest relationships, contributing to the regulation of emotion and behavior and the construction of knowledge-all key components of Infant Mental Health. The manner in which children register, process and interpret sensation, contributes significantly to how they perceive and appraise reality and consequently how they are apt to behave. If a child’s…

Registration is closed! MI-AIMH is Celebrating Babies and Relationships Through Yoga Join MI-AIMH Board Member, Danielle Rice, for Yoga focused on infants, toddlers, and preschools and their caregivers!  Date: Thursday, October 22, 2020 Time: 10:00 - 10:45 am (Eastern Time Zone) Access: A Zoom link will be sent on Oct. 21st to the email used during registration. Please be careful when entering your email address.  Please do not share the link once it is sent. Only registered participants may attend.…

Registration is OPEN Reflective Spaces: Virtual Supportive Groups for Michigan Home Visitors In this uncertain time, we are all adapting to new ways of supporting very young children and families while also adapting to changes in our own lives. Holding the profound worries of vulnerable families alongside your own can feel stressful, and, at times overwhelming. In order to provide support, the State of Michigan will be partnering with MI-AIMH to offer free virtual groups for home visitors in Michigan.…

Registration is OPEN Resilience and Risk in Early Development: An Infant Mental Health ‘Back to Basics’ Series Part I:  Early Attachment:  The Psychological Worlds of Infants and their Caregivers Attachment theory is foundational to the field of Infant Mental Health.  Infants rely on their caregivers to provide a secure base and a safe haven.  When things go well, infants grow, develop and thrive within safe and supportive relationships with their caregivers.  Understanding the normative development of the attachment system and…

Registration is OPEN Resilience and Risk in Early Development: An Infant Mental Health ‘Back to Basics’ Series Part II:  Trauma & Toxic Stress:  Effects on Parenting and Early Child Development Trauma and toxic stress interfere with adaptive parenting and healthy early child development.  This workshop will describe the social, psychological, behavioral and neurobiological effects of trauma on parents and on infants and very young children.  Understanding the way trauma manifests in young children and their parents can help us provide…

Registration is OPEN! Reflective Supervision: The Use of Rupture & Repair to Further Relationship-Based IMH Practice, Part II This workshop, a follow up to Part I offered in November 2019, however we would encourage you to attend even if you did not attend Part I.  The training will provide participants with an opportunity to deepen their focus on the use of rupture and repair in reflective supervision. Participants will be able to practice the use of rupture and repair within…