Thursday, November 15, 2018
Keynote Presenter:
Eva Marie Shivers, JD, PhD
Dr. Eva Marie Shivers is the Executive Director of the Indigo Cultural Center, a non-profit action research firm located in Phoenix, AZ. Dr. Shivers’ work at the Indigo Cultural Center focuses on the developmental niche of early childhood development and education to explore the evolution of frameworks for understanding families’ culturally adaptive responses to poverty, systemic racism, and historical marginalization.
Please, click here for Dr. Shivers' Bio
Conference Topic:
Promoting Racial Equity And Disrupting Bias: What Does Infant Mental Health Have To Do With It?
What role do we have as infant mental health professionals in closing racial disparities and reducing bias? We will come together for important conversations about racial equity and how personal, mindful transformation can translate into effective practice and policy.
Using Infant Mental Health frameworks and Diversity-Informed Tenets as an anchors, we will practice using 3 multiple lenses of personal, interpersonal and systemic approaches in exploring research, effective professional development strategies, professional relationships, and leadership.
Objectives:
Anticipated Audience:
Social workers, early interventionists, home visitors, early child care providers, clinicians, pediatricians, nurses, health professionals, child welfare, etc...
______________________________________________________ This program has been submitted for Continuing Education Credit Hours by the National Association of Social Workers, CT and we anticipate it will meet the continuing education criteria for CT Social Work Licensure renewal.
Important Information for Registering:
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Co-Sponsors:
We are grateful to have the following sponsors for this event:
Children's Fund of Connecticut, Inc (CFC)
Connecticut Head Start State Collaboration Office (HSSCO)
Elm City Project LAUNCH (DCF)