Adjustment reflects the experience and response to a change, transition, fluctuation, loss or new beginning. This guides us in the process of reflecting, adapting, coping, understanding and accepting.
CT-AIMH would like to remind us that necessary to this process is self-compassion and compassion toward others. Compassion is a hallmark to infant and early childhood mental health practice. It also reflects the values that we promote as infant and early childhood mental health practitioners.
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Margaret Holmberg, Ph.D., IMH-E®
and Lois Davis, Ph.D., IMH-E®
present the Jane C. Bourns Award to Joanna Bogin in 2017 at Woodwinds in Branford.
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CT-AIMH Co-Founder Joanna Bogin Will Be Deeply Missed |
Joanna Bogin was a founding member of the Board of Directors for the CT Association for Infant Mental Health. She was instrumental in helping the Board to establish By-Laws of the Association. She sought guidance from her contacts in other states that had already established infant mental health associations and that were affiliates of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. Joanna has been a guiding force and compassionate leader in her groundbreaking work, and beloved colleague and friend. We will miss her tremendously....at the personal, organizational, state and national levels.
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"With great sadness, I share my reflections on the passing of our dear friend and beloved colleague, Joanna Bogin.
Joanna was, in so many respects, our spiritual leader – our national center version of a non-denominational mother superior, priestly confessor, and rabbinic sage. She cared for and took care of all of us." Paul Dworkin, MD, executive vice president for community child health at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, director of Connecticut Children’s Office for Community Child Health and founding director of the Help Me Grow National Center. Dr. Dworkin is also a professor of pediatrics at UConn School of Medicine.
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Highlights from the CT-AIMH Spring Conference |
Conference sponsors included CT Department of Children and Families, Wheeler Clinic and the CT Office of Early Childhood and welcomed keynote speakers Matthew Grossman, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics from Yale School of Medicine and Ruth Paris, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Clinical Practice at Boston University School of Social Work to discuss Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS) and how to promote connections while working with families and their babies who have been/are being affected by substance use. A panel of Connecticut programs featured Mothering from the Inside Out, Wheeler Clinic and Intercommunity Health PROUD Program, Child First, Family Based Recovery, CAPTA Legislation, Birth to Three and The Connection. The signature spring conference was the first CT-AIMH conference to be simultaneously translated in Spanish!
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Read the CT-AIMH award letter by Board President Susan Vater, Ph.D., HERE.
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Jane C. Bourns Award:
Nancy Suchman, Ph.D.
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Nancy Suchman, Ph.D., Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Yale University and Associate Professor at the Yale Child Study Center was honored during the CT-AIMH Spring Conference on May 6, 2021. Dr. Suchman developed a maternal psychotherapy program to develop mothers' mentalization functioning to replace Substance Use Disorder with Attachment relationships. The CT-AIMH Jane C. Bourns award to Dr. Suchman was presented by Dr. Amanda Lowell, a loving colleague who Dr. Suchman mentored and also partnered with in the dissemination of Mothering from the Inside Out. The award was bestowed posthumously as Dr. Suchman passed away in December 2020 as the result of cancer. "At the time of her death, Nancy was an associate professor in the Department of Psychiatry and the Child Study Center who had made significant contributions to the science of addiction, parenting, and child development." Yale Profile on Dr. Suchman. To watch a one hour presentation by Dr. Nancy Suchman speaking at the University of Maryland School of Social Work in 2018 about Mothering from the Inside Out, click here.
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CT-AIMH's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee and Board of Directors has approved a new Statement of Solidarity |
"We stand in solidarity with Asian and Pacific Islanders, and continue to stand in solidarity with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color...."
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Highlighting and Celebrating Contributions to
CT-AIMH
Heather Bonitz Moore, ATR-BC, LPC, IECMH-E®
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CT-AIMH is excited to highlight the work of one of our important partners and a major contributing contractual staff member. Heather Bonitz Moore is currently an Instructor in Clinical Child Counseling at Yale University, Child Study Center where she is a Parent-Child Consultant for Family Based and part of the Senior Clinical Consultation and Training team for the Minding the Baby Program. Prior to joining YCSC Ms. Moore worked as the Director of Clinical Practice overseeing multiple in-home clinical models and outpatient treatment in an FQHC. She has supervised clinical and case management staff, provided in-home treatment and private practice outpatient psychotherapy focusing on trauma.
Ms. Moore has also been the Endorsement® Coordinator for CT-AIMH, since 2015. She facilitates Reflective Supervision/Consultation (RS/C) groups for CT-AIMH and offers presentations on RS/C and Endorsement® for CT-AIMH and other groups in CT.
Heather has also developed webinars about Endorsement®, has offered monthly Zoom Endorsement® Orientation meetings, and she has also contributed to the development of a home visiting webinar on IMH.
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Heather Bonitz Moore, ATR-BC, LPC, IECMH-E® (continued)
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Attending the Annual Weatherston Summit for Alliance Leaders in February 2019....From left to right; Margaret Holmberg, Ph.D., IMH-E®, CT-AIMH Past President and current board member of the Alliance for the Advancement for Infant Mental Health; Kim Shepardson-Watson, LCSW, IMH-E®, Independent Practice Clinician, Reflective Supervision Trainer and 2016 Recipient of the Jane C. Bourns Award; Heather Bonitz Moore, ATR-BC, LPC, IECMH-E®, Independent Practice Clinician, CT-AIMH Endorsement Coordinator, Reflective Supervision Trainer (and much more); Heidi Maderia, M.S., IMH-E®, CT-AIMH Executive Director.
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Infant Mental Health Training Series for Early Care Educators!
In June, CT-AIMH completed our 11-part IMH childcare series in Spanish. We will begin another 11-part IMH childcare series in the fall.
Please visit our website for registration information.
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The Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health |
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The Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health Releases Annual Report |
In the report's Executive Summary, Nicole Paradis, LMSW, IMH-E®, Executive Director and Susan Dickstein, Ph.D., IMH-E®, President of the Board of Directors write "The Alliance’s strategic planning is giving us clarity that our greatest opportunity to have an impact on babies and families is by focusing our efforts on the workforce, most often through engagement with our member AIMHs. In order to do this, we are committed to centering on DEIA principles and practices to maximize the impact on families. Racism is a dangerous ghost in the nursery of BIPOC babies and families. In order to support the workforce in addressing that ghost, we are striving toward diversifying the field, training that emphasizes cultural humility, and working for social justice."
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Connecticut Authors Publish Article in the Infant Mental Health Journal!
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WAIMH 2021 Congress
June 22-26, 2021 and Connecticut and CT-AIMH will be represented...
Educating Future Parents and Teachers about Infant Mental Health:
An interdisciplinary panel will include Robert Margolies, Ph.D., School and Clinical Psychologist and Chair of the Connecticut Coalition for Child Development Education, Ros Kane, B.A., author, therapist and founder of ‘Before Becoming a Parent’ charity, from the United Kingdom, and Heidi Maderia, M.S., IMH-E, Executive Director of CT-AIMH.
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Please join us for the final episode in our spring film series of Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of Our Nation! |
Thanks to funding from the CT Office of Early Childhood, we have been offering free screenings of The Raising of America: Early Childhood and the Future of Our Nation. A number of Connecticut organizations participated in the support and development of this documentary film produced in 2015 by California Newsreel.
We warmly invite you to please join us via Zoom for our final episode in this series, Episode 5 "DNA is Not Destiny"
TOMORROW June 18, 221
9-10:30am.
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Please renew your membership with us! Your membership offers...
- Conference fees reduced and the opportunity to register first.
- First to receive the Newsletter with updates on CT-AIMH initiatives.
- Connect with other infant and early childhood mental health professionals.
- Access to Infant and Early Childhood Endorsement through CT-AIMH (See Endorsement Tab)
- News from the World Association for Infant Mental Health
- News from the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health (over 29 states, including Connecticut, and 2 countries offering the Endorsement in Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health®).
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