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PA-AIMH 12th Annual Infant Mental Health Conference
September 15 & 16, 2022
PA-AIMH 12th Annual Infant Mental Health Conference
September 15 & 16, 2022
Conference Registration Now Open!
Make your hotel reservations by August 15, 2022. The conference rate of $96/night single occupancy applies to Wednesday & Thursday ONLY for a limited number of rooms. The room block is full for Wednesday nights and nearly full for Thursday night as of 6/28/2022. A $159/night single occupancy applies after room block full until August 15, 2022.
Please contact us at pa-aimh@pa-aimh.org for more information.
Keynote Speaker Line Up:
Day 1 Morning Keynote: Connection to Race, Ethnicity and Culture and Implications of Child Development
Felicia Savage, BS, MEd, & Shannon Wannless, Ph.D.
Children are seeing and developing ideas about race and racism from infancy. In this keynote address we will share research on how these ideas emerge across infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood, and discuss the role of infant mental health professionals. Adult learning about race and racism is essential and needs to happen with our colleagues if we are to help young children and their families thrive. Ideas will be shared for creating braving spaces and engaging with humility, being open to discomfort, and sustaining commitment for the long-term.
Day 1 Afternoon Keynote: The Stigma of OUD in Pregnancy- An Opportunity for the Rebirth of Compassion
Dr. Gary Stoner, MD
Pregnancy is often the wake-up call for women who have long desired to change their destructive behaviors of OUD. This time of immense shame and guilt forces self-reflection on the harm they impose on themselves and their baby. This window of vulnerability is the prime opportunity for health care systems to wake-up as well and engage them with understanding, kindness, and compassion. This presentation forces self-reflection of our own destructive behaviors that are shaped by ignorance and prejudice. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with patients who have completed an OUD program during their pregnancy emphasizing the importance of why stigma is all too often the rate limiting step in successful recovery.
Day 2 Morning Keynote: Strengthening Reflective Foundations through IECMH Connection
Dr. Dayna Zatina-Egan, Ph.D.
No matter what one's professional role or expertise, we are all humans serving and working with other humans, and in that way, our own humanity has to become a main consideration and focus in the way in which we work with each other, and the children and families that we serve. We will not be able to achieve the high level of quality care that we aspire to without first taking a reflective approach to the way in which we understand, support, and work with each other. This is true across disciplines and employment levels. Whether you are the CFO, or the direct care worker, the way in which we think about and support our staff matters and must come from a reflective and human lens. we must be aware of what we bring to the work, and what others might be experiencing, and also how our actions and approach at one level will inevitable trickle down to another. This presentation will discuss the recent initiative at Youth Consultation Service to implement reflectivity throughout the organization. Through a top down approach, from CEO to direct care staff, this initiative has worked to increase all staff's overall reflectivity, raised the standard of supervision and support in the agency across disciplines, and strived to, first and foremost, lead with humanity within our approach to staff and clients alike. Traditionally, this reflective approach has lived in the infant and early childhood mental health space, but this initiative has expanded this lens, using the tents of IECMH as a foundation to then cast a wider net, encompassing all staff who work with children and adults at our NJ based non profit agency. It is our stance that reflectivity should be a cornerstone of all leadership styles and work approaches and should be modeled at every level of leadership within the agency.
Day 2 Afternoon Keynote: The Protective Impact of Reflective Supervision/Consultation: Evidence from Pennsylvania and Ohio Reflective Supervision Projects
Dr. Robert Gallen, Ph.D., IMH-E®
This talk will examine RSC as a potential protective or “benevolent” experience that protects the workforce against the negative impact of exposure to occupational hazards (i.e. secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, burn out and drop out from workforce) through the experience of supportive, caring and nurturing reflective interactions with the supervisor/consultant. The results of two RSC projects completed in Pennsylvania and Ohio will be reviewed and discussed within the context of RSC theory and its current evidence base.
Felicia Savage, BS, MEd, & Shannon Wannless, Ph.D.
Children are seeing and developing ideas about race and racism from infancy. In this keynote address we will share research on how these ideas emerge across infancy, toddlerhood, and early childhood, and discuss the role of infant mental health professionals. Adult learning about race and racism is essential and needs to happen with our colleagues if we are to help young children and their families thrive. Ideas will be shared for creating braving spaces and engaging with humility, being open to discomfort, and sustaining commitment for the long-term.
Day 1 Afternoon Keynote: The Stigma of OUD in Pregnancy- An Opportunity for the Rebirth of Compassion
Dr. Gary Stoner, MD
Pregnancy is often the wake-up call for women who have long desired to change their destructive behaviors of OUD. This time of immense shame and guilt forces self-reflection on the harm they impose on themselves and their baby. This window of vulnerability is the prime opportunity for health care systems to wake-up as well and engage them with understanding, kindness, and compassion. This presentation forces self-reflection of our own destructive behaviors that are shaped by ignorance and prejudice. The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with patients who have completed an OUD program during their pregnancy emphasizing the importance of why stigma is all too often the rate limiting step in successful recovery.
Day 2 Morning Keynote: Strengthening Reflective Foundations through IECMH Connection
Dr. Dayna Zatina-Egan, Ph.D.
No matter what one's professional role or expertise, we are all humans serving and working with other humans, and in that way, our own humanity has to become a main consideration and focus in the way in which we work with each other, and the children and families that we serve. We will not be able to achieve the high level of quality care that we aspire to without first taking a reflective approach to the way in which we understand, support, and work with each other. This is true across disciplines and employment levels. Whether you are the CFO, or the direct care worker, the way in which we think about and support our staff matters and must come from a reflective and human lens. we must be aware of what we bring to the work, and what others might be experiencing, and also how our actions and approach at one level will inevitable trickle down to another. This presentation will discuss the recent initiative at Youth Consultation Service to implement reflectivity throughout the organization. Through a top down approach, from CEO to direct care staff, this initiative has worked to increase all staff's overall reflectivity, raised the standard of supervision and support in the agency across disciplines, and strived to, first and foremost, lead with humanity within our approach to staff and clients alike. Traditionally, this reflective approach has lived in the infant and early childhood mental health space, but this initiative has expanded this lens, using the tents of IECMH as a foundation to then cast a wider net, encompassing all staff who work with children and adults at our NJ based non profit agency. It is our stance that reflectivity should be a cornerstone of all leadership styles and work approaches and should be modeled at every level of leadership within the agency.
Day 2 Afternoon Keynote: The Protective Impact of Reflective Supervision/Consultation: Evidence from Pennsylvania and Ohio Reflective Supervision Projects
Dr. Robert Gallen, Ph.D., IMH-E®
This talk will examine RSC as a potential protective or “benevolent” experience that protects the workforce against the negative impact of exposure to occupational hazards (i.e. secondary traumatic stress, compassion fatigue, burn out and drop out from workforce) through the experience of supportive, caring and nurturing reflective interactions with the supervisor/consultant. The results of two RSC projects completed in Pennsylvania and Ohio will be reviewed and discussed within the context of RSC theory and its current evidence base.
