eLearning, Presentations, and Webinars
eLearning
Foundations for Infant/Toddler Social Emotional Health and Development: Provider Modules (external website)
Rhode Island Association for Infant Mental Health
This course includes 16 computer-based learning modules in three sections:
infant/toddler development, relationships as the context for development, and supporting infant/toddler development through approaches to individualization.
IECMH Virtual Trainings Portal (external website)
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
The Center of Excellence offers virtual events as a way to connect and provide participants an opportunity to discuss concerns, share their approaches and learn more about how the field of mental health consultation has pivoted in these times to support young children, their families and caregivers and their early childhood systems.
Social Emotional Development of Young Children (external website)
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative
Partnership for People with Disabilities at VCU
This module was developed as an introduction to social emotional development, also known as infant mental health, for children birth to age five. Topics covered in this module include: social emotional development, evidence-based research including a framework for infant child mental health, and reflection on the impact of past experiences, family, and culture on healthy social emotional development.
Presentations
Diving Deeper to Understand Behavior (external website)
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
This conference session was presented at the 2021 Virginia Association for the Education of Young Children (VAAEYC) conference. Presenters Lisa Terry and Patricia “Patty” Eitemiller shared an energetic and engaging session adapted from the Zero to Three: The Growing Brain curriculum. Lisa and Patty highlighted the “Five R’s,” reviewed the three factors that impact behavior, and discussed the nine temperament traits as a contributing factor to behavior. Strategies for managing challenging behavior were also discussed. This session was pre-recorded and presented simultaneously during the conference.
Webinars
ABC: All Behavior Communicates! – Practical Strategies to Address Difficult Behavior
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Mickey VanDerwerker
During this webinar, participants will learn about several strategies that can help to positively address difficult moments. These strategies are based on the big idea that behavior communicates. Click the link above to visit the 2015 Talks on Tuesdays Archive and scroll down until you find the webinar.
Approaching Families about Early Mental Health Care
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Jean S. Odachowski
This presentation explores which children may need interventions directed at specifically enhancing mental health and how to talk to parents about this need without creating fear or anxiety for them. Click the link above to visit the 2016 Talks on Tuesdays Archive and scroll down until you find the webinar.
The Digital Distraction - The Intersection Between Technoference and the Parent-Child Dyad - Part I
The Digital Distraction - Creating Spaces for Lessons Learned, Reflective Practice, and Professional Strategy – Part II
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Tracy Ellis-Walters, MEd, ECSE, IMH-E
Part I of this two-part webinar series introduces participants to the concept of technoference and unpack how technoference is becoming a significant disruptor in the areas of attachment, attunement, and neurodevelopment. Part II of this series offers participants the opportunity to review the implications for technoference in the parent-child dyad, analyze professional bias that may enter the work with families surrounding technology, and use reflective practice to build professional practices to support families. This session also provides the “voice” of many who are impacted by technology use while trying to navigate our relationships within the context of a technologically based life.
Equity Chat Series: Unpacking the Revised Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Competencies
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
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.
Foundations of Social Emotional Development: Attachment - Part I
Foundations of Social Emotional Development: Temperament - Part II
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Naomi H. Grinney, LCSW
This two-part webinar series explores attachment and temperament and the role of trauma in early life. Strategies to build parent/provider capacity to support their little ones are discussed.
Infant Mental Health in Early Intervention (external website)
Division for Early Childhood (DEC) 2021 Annual Conference
Are you interested in learning more about Infant Mental Health? This session helps participants understand how an infant mental health perspective supports families.
This session was presented/recorded during the Division of Early Childhood (DEC) conference. For more information about the next upcoming conference, visit the DEC website.
The Foundation of the Pyramid: Social Emotional Development within the Context of Nurturing Relationships and Supporting Environments
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Rob Corso and Bonnie Grifa
This webinar provides information about social-emotional development in infants and toddlers. Information about VA’s infant mental health certification is also shared. Click the link above to visit the 2012 Talks on Tuesdays Archive and scroll down until you find the webinar.
Preventing Challenging Behavior in the Home Setting
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Jaclyn D. Joseph, Ph.D., BCBA
This training focuses on ways to prevent challenging behavior in the home setting. We will define challenging behavior and social-emotional competence, and we will discuss why young children demonstrate challenging behaviors. Four parenting practices for preventing challenging behaviors will be outlined, and resources will be shared regarding what families and providers can do when challenging behaviors begin or when they continue to occur. Click the link above to visit the 2017 Talks on Tuesdays Archive and scroll down until you find the webinars.
Ready, Set, Resilience: Understanding and Supporting Infant and Toddler Protective Factors
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Mary Mackrain
This webinar provides information about social and emotional health including critical indicators, key research findings, and strategies for caregivers. Click the link above to visit the 2010-2011 Talks on Tuesdays Archive and scroll down until you find the webinar.
Relationships First: Shifting our Mindset from Control to Engagement - Part 1
VA's Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Dr. Mona Delahook
Please join us for an hour-long webinar about the factors that underlie behaviors that are OFTEN missed by the adults in children's lives. During this webinar we will learn the underpinnings of challenging behavior from a neuroscience perspective. Dr. Delahooke will be referencing her book, Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children. All local systems have a copy of the book - contact your Local System Manager if you want to borrow your system's copy!
This Recording is Viewed Through Blackboard Collaborate (external website) It will take a moment for the recording to load ( a new window/player will open). Need Tech Support? (external website)
Stress Response or Challenging Behavior? New Answers, New Directions - Part 2
VA's Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Dr. Mona Delahook
Please join us for the Part 2 of Dr. Delahooke's webinar series about practical strategies for understanding the factors that underlie behaviors that are OFTEN missed by the adults in children's lives. For this session, she will focus her attention on practical strategies for emotional regulation and zones of regulation, and personal attunement. During this webinar we will have a chance to apply the the underpinnings of challenging behavior from a neuroscience perspective.
Dr. Delahooke will be referencing her book, Social and Emotional Development in Early Intervention: A Skills Guide for Working with Children. All local systems have a copy of the book - contact your Local System Manager if you want to borrow your system's copy!
This Recording is Viewed Through Blackboard Collaborate (external website) It will take a moment for the recording to load ( a new window/player will open). Need Tech Support? (external website)
Trusting Relationships
VA’s Integrated Training Collaborative | Partnership for People with Disabilities
Presented by Leah Davidson, M.S., IMH-E (II)
Please join us for a lively discussion on the role that relationships play in the development of young children. We'll review some basics about the importance of relationships, reflect on our own experiences in early intervention, and tie the information directly to the information provided by Dr. Mona Delahooke during her recent online talk about neurodevelopmental approaches to intervention. If you've ever said this to yourself or a colleague "I wish Dr. XXXX would not just spit out the diagnosis and then tell the family to call us - it makes the family feel so lost and sad!!!" then this is the webinar for you - let's empower each other to shed promote learning through relationships and shed light on the power of the ties that bind us. Click the link above to visit the 2018 Talks on Tuesdays Archive and scroll down until you find the webinars.
Understanding Behaviors: Triggers, Reflections, and Expectations
This webinar was presented at the Summer 2023 VAIMH Professional Development Series. Presenters Cori Hill and Lisa Terry identified three key factors of understanding behavior: development, temperament, and environment. They helped participants reflect on triggers and shared information on reframing. Participants had the opportunity to practice skills by reviewing four different case studies.
This webinar was sponsored by VAIMH. For more information, visit https://www.vaimh.org/
Materials:
Competencies addressed: Infant/Young Child Development & Behavior, Infant/Young Child and Family-Centered Practice, and Life Skills
2021 Equity in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Webinar Series
Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development
This webinar series focused on a variety of matters around equity.
Social Emotional Development