Resources for Professionals

• Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University: Provides resources, research articles, and information on early childhood development and its impact on mental health.

• The Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health Best Practice Guidelines for Reflective Supervision: Provides an excellent, in-depth resource for those implementing Reflective Supervision.

• Center for the Study of Social Policy: Provides information on the Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework.

• Center for Excellence for Infant Mental Health Consultation: Provides training, technical assistance, and resource development to support the IECMHC field.

• Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families: The Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children, and Families (Tenets) are a set of ten strategies and tools for strengthening the commitment and capacity of professionals, organizations, and systems that serve infants, children and families to embed diversity, inclusion and equity principles into their work. 

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN): This is a collaboration of frontline providers, researchers, and families committed to raising the standard of care while increasing access to services, combining knowledge of child development, expertise in the full range of child traumatic experiences, and dedication to evidence-based practices.

• SAMHSA Center of Excellence for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: The U.S. Dept of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's IECMHC improves children’s lives by supporting their social, emotional, and behavioral health and development. 

• Children's Mental Health Matters Campaign- The Children’s Mental Health Matters! Campaign brings together non-profits, schools, and other agencies in Maryland with the following goals: raising public awareness of the importance of children’s mental health and substance use, reducing the stigma of mental health, and connecting children and families with resources for prevention and support of mental health conditions. 

Podcasts:

• PsychEd4Peds-  On this episode, Dr. Joyce Harrison, child and adolescent psychiatrist at Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins, talks about what could be causing temper tantrums in preschool-aged kids.  She presents the "Eight S" framework that pediatric clinicians can use to help them evaluate kids with emotional and/or behavioral problems.