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Allied Behavioral Health Solutions and the Association of Infant Mental Health in Tennessee (AIMHiTN) reached out to the Alliance to partner around the creation and development of a 5 video series to examine what it means to observe, listen, wonder, and respond when working with infants, young children, and their families.  These "4 Little Words", coined by Deborah Weatherston, PhD, IMH-E®, have been a framework for many infant-young child and family professionals.  

Join the following presenters on a video journey about building emotional resilience:

• Deborah Weatherston, PhD, IMH-E®

• Fran Jozefowicz, MSN, RN, IMH-E®

• Kristina Figaro, LMSW, IMH-E®

• Melissa Threadgould, LMSW, IMH-E®

Finally, we invite you to join with your colleagues and/or members of your association for infant mental health to participate in this series.

You may consider having a brown bag lunch over the course of 5-weeks and examine one video from the series each time.  Or you may wish to share all of the video clips at once and then come together to have a large group discussion about what you learned.  There are numerous ways to use these resources -- get creative!  

Please note: the knowledge/skills covered in these videos align with the Competency Guidelines® and viewing the videos can be recorded in your Endorsement® application within the training section.