WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
This session will offer an overview of key Strong Roots™ concepts that can be used to promote responsive caregiving and to nurture early relational health. To be successful, children need emotional safety and strong connections, or Strong Roots. We use the metaphor of a tree to illustrate how, like trees, we all need strong roots to grow, branch out, and thrive. The presenter will draw from the Strong Roots evidence-based programs to offer parent-friendly tools that attendees can use in work with the young children and families they serve.
Faith Eidson, LMSW, IECMH-E®
Faith Eidson is a clinical social worker and an endorsed Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Clinical Mentor. She has dedicated her career to supporting healthy relationships for babies, young children, families, and the specialized workforce that serves them. Currently, she works as a program specialist with Zero to Thrive at the University of Michigan and also provides training and reflective consultation to professionals in various settings through her private practice.
Rachel Waddell, LMSW
Rachel Waddell is the Strong Roots Training & Curriculum Manager with Zero to Thrive at the University of Michigan. In her role she supports the delivery, quality and development of training and oversees content of Strong Roots Programs. She received her MSW from UM and has worked with the team in various roles since 2012. Rachel is passionate about supporting the well-being of families and parents with young children, especially those who experience oppression and adversity. She is also a proud mom of an 8-, 6-, and 2.5-year-old, and is expecting another in early 2026.
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members |
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
This workshop will focus on group leadership including guidance on sorting out group and individual needs in sessions, attuning to needs, crafting questions that prompt reflection, expanded perspectives, and collaboration. Participants will receive a set of sample prompts and participate in an activity designed to help them strengthen their abilities to shape questions that broaden personal and programmatic perspectives and summarize and contain what is generated.
Mary Claire Heffron, Ph.D
Mary Claire Heffron is a clinical psychologist with broad experience locally, nationally, and internationally in the infant family and early childhood field including clinical work, supervision, program development, consultation, professional training, teaching, and research. Her work crosses disciplines and she has a particular interest in the ways that reflective practice and supervision support equity, more diversity and inclusion among staff and leaders, as well as relationship and trauma informed care at the individual and organizational level.
Deborrah Bremond, Ph.D, MPH
Deborrah Bremond has worked in the field of infant and early childhood mental health for the past 35 years. She developed a broad range of experience conceptualizing, developing, and implementing integrated service delivery models for young children, birth to age 8, in her position as a program director for First 5 Alameda County. She has worked to integrate the importance of early social and emotional development into pre-school special education sites, neonatal follow-up programs, primary pediatric care settings, and community- based organizations serving families and young children.
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members |
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