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Author and activist Nicole Lynn Lewis began college at William & Mary as a teen mother with her infant daughter in tow. The experience of navigating through a higher education system that was not designed for her provided an in-depth understanding of the challenges that student parents face including the intersectionality of race, gender, and poverty in their journeys. In 2010, Lewis turned her own experience into her life’s mission by founding Generation Hope, a nonprofit organization that ensures all student parents have the opportunities to succeed and experience economic mobility by engaging education and policy partners to drive systemic change and providing direct support to teen parents in college as well as their children through holistic, two-generation programming.

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BT-A1: Play on Purpose: Joyful Learning Opportunities in Our Communities

Description: When was the last time you played on purpose? Let’s inspire your inner child to see familiar spaces in new ways. Hear about our coordinated effort to bring playful learning to public spaces and get inspired to do the same in your community.

BT-A2: Meal Time: Talking With Children

Description: Meal times are daily routines that present excellent opportunities for exposure to and practice using language. Learn new strategies for engaging children during meal time by incorporating math language, self- and parallel-talk, and connections to their day.  Gain resources that can support the implementation of strategies in your program.

BT-A3: STEM Learning for All Through Inclusive Teaching Practices

Description: Engage with examples of STEM learning in the Nest and learn how we create an inclusive learning environment. Consider how to apply inclusive STEM learning in your setting.

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Gather with us and learn from stories of how courageous leaders incorporate the mind, body, and soul to reimagine justice in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH). What does decolonization look like when practiced by IECMH leaders? What can the Black Liberation Movement teach us about the strategies necessary to sustain our social justice movement?

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The Family Partnership developed a program to build resilience for three- to five-year-old children and their parents. Learners will practice two strategies: mirroring of child internal states and fostering personal narration.  A collaborative, rapid cycle process is used to revise and refine.  Are you ready to innovate?

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Hear about reflective practice and supervision (RP/S) curricula, the state-wide planning and coordination that allowed for feasible implementation, and key program evaluation and research findings that point to the effectiveness of its professional development series. Discover how the state-wide RP/S curricula were developed, adapted for multiple early childhood serving sectors, refined via a formative feedback process, and evaluated for effectiveness. 

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Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that supports the inclusion of all learners, especially those whose identities lie outside of the dominant culture. We will acknowledge our own beliefs, biases, and practices, and identify UDL strategies related to caring for infants and toddlers that support authentic inclusion from a Tier 1 lens.

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Early Connections, a café-style parent curriculum, provides caregivers with the tools needed to build strong relationships with their children. Join us to learn about this new resource, which centers parents’ voices and lived experiences. Explore how you might utilize a café approach in your own setting to spark meaningful learning!

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Postpartum depression (PPD) has significant implications for infants and families. The importance of PPD screening is well-established yet rates of screening remain low, with significant disparities. This presentation reviews strategies for collaborations between HealthySteps and pediatric providers to transform screening, referral, and service delivery practices to provide more equitable care.

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The Developmental Screening & Referral Toolkits are a practical guide for implementing or refining a high-quality approach to embedding developmental screening and linkage within pediatric medical care, family-serving agencies, and family resource centers. Learn about holding developmental conversations with families including attention to linguistic and cultural diversity

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Learn about Mississippi’s process to create a diverse coalition. Explore its criteria for partnership and the shared principles/processes for collaboration.  Reflect and consider how you might begin this process. Benefit from group critical and generative discussions.

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Individuals, programs, and systems are struggling to consider the impact of long-term and systemic inaction and multi-faceted oppression of marginalized social identities. Engaging in meaningful dialogue to begin implementing the changes evoked by these new realizations presents a steep learning curve for many. Members of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative will focus this session on supporting the critical self-awareness needed to re-envision one’s authentic voice. Contemplate using your authentic voice as a tool to leverage current opportunities which can increase racial and socio-cultural awareness in this new and shifting landscape, with further consideration of application in your unique situation.

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BT-B1: Lost in Translation: The Risks Language and Cultural Barriers Present in Our Spanish-Speaking Patients Receiving Perinatal Care                   

Description: Learn about the language and cultural barriers faced by our Spanish-speaking patients in perinatal care. Hear how we explored ways to bridge the gaps in care when facing these challenges, to ensure patients receive the perinatal care they deserve.

BT-B2: When the Bough Breaks: Creating a Safety Net System of Care for Perinatal Mental Health in DC

Description: Walk through program creation, recruitment, and sustainability efforts. Gain up-to-date data, including the prevalence of mental health concerns and other social drivers of health. Review challenges, successes, and goals to combat the maternal health crisis.

BT-B3: Black Mothers Care Plan: Reducing Racial Bias and Supporting Maternal and Infant Health

Description: The Black Mothers Care Plan is an interdisciplinary community-research partnership using community-based participatory frameworks to impact racial bias against Black women in obstetric care. Learn strategies in advancing reproductive justice across diverse localities through engaging principles surrounding empowerment and advocacy, partnership building, and creative problem solving through co-creation.

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Historically, community mental health settings provide comprehensive care in local communities across America, but often these agencies begin services when children can verbally communicate in therapeutic settings. Learn how one community mental health center used a strategic planning workgroup to advance the delivery of infant mental health services in a setting where knowledge and ability to serve infants were limited. Gain a framework you can use in your own organizations for delivering, expanding, or improving infant mental health services.

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Learn about an evidence-based framework for program improvement, the Start Early Essentials, and hear a case study of the framework in action.  Gain new knowledge of program improvement drivers and workforce development strategies and participate in a structured learning experience to introduce your colleagues to the framework.

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Various helping professionals are often encouraged to “be with” families who have experienced trauma; yet, how to hold this stance is rarely spoken about in detail. This presentation decodes what it means to “be with” vulnerable families, including lessons learned from the field, specific strategies, and reflections on individual biases.

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A combination of the Diversity-Informed Tenets for Work with Infants, Children and Families, Early Childhood Mental Health Consultative Stance, and the FAN© commit to self-awareness, relationship-based practice, and intentional effort to advance equity. This session will discuss our hypothesis that these frameworks ensure enhanced, deep practice for the Consultant.

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Learn about assessment and treatment planning for young children, and caregivers in the context of child welfare systems. Explore relationship-based, diversity-informed assessment, treatment planning, and the importance of team communication. Reflect on and consider your biases and values and how they may impact your clinical work.

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The current financing structure for pediatric primary care focuses on a narrow range of clinical outcomes and incentivizes volume over value, resulting in insufficient resources to provide the whole-family care needed to address health equity, health-related social needs, and family well-being. Our implementation of this model of advanced primary care operates in clinical settings that serve diverse families who live, work, learn, and play in underserved communities and addresses child and caregiver needs that go beyond physical health. The value-based payment model developed for the model includes clinical quality measures stratified by race and ethnicity to assess and incentivize improvement in equity outcomes.

 

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Learn about culturally responsive strength-based strategies to support Black Boys utilizing an equity mindset from infancy through early childhood.  The session will provide historical context, regarding institutionalized and structural racism that affects the development of Black Boys and how early supports can counteract the effects of racism through ongoing teacher development, quality learning environments, and access to health and wellness services. Creating success for African American boys requires thoughtful commitment and focus to offer high-quality learning environments. The ongoing professional development of education staff— like coaches, education managers, and supervisors— is key to this effort. Participants will be encouraged to share their lived experiences as well as ask questions during the lecture.

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The Developmental Screening & Referral Toolkits are a practical guide for implementing or refining a high-quality approach to embedding developmental screening and linkage within pediatric medical care, family-serving agencies, and family resource centers. Learn about holding developmental conversations with families including attention to linguistic and cultural diversity

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Learn about Mississippi’s process to create a diverse coalition. Explore its criteria for partnership and the shared principles/processes for collaboration.  Reflect and consider how you might begin this process. Benefit from group critical and generative discussions.

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Individuals, programs, and systems are struggling to consider the impact of long-term and systemic inaction and multi-faceted oppression of marginalized social identities. Engaging in meaningful dialogue to begin implementing the changes evoked by these new realizations presents a steep learning curve for many. Members of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative will focus this session on supporting the critical self-awareness needed to re-envision one’s authentic voice. Contemplate using your authentic voice as a tool to leverage current opportunities which can increase racial and socio-cultural awareness in this new and shifting landscape, with further consideration of application in your unique situation.

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BT-C1: Mind the Gaps: Approaches for Integrating Discussions on Bias into Reflective Supervision/Consultation

Description: This talk connects key concepts in the reflective supervision/consultation (RSC) model to conversations about implicit and explicit bias, highlighting ways the RSC model can advance conversations about racism and antiracism. Tools and strategies are offered as starting points, with encouragement for supervisors to continue generating ideas for facilitating these important conversations.

BT-C2: Developing a Common Language of Trauma-Informed Care Across Sectors of Early Childhood Providers

Description: Gain an overview of a statewide effort to provide foundational trauma-informed training to cross-sector early childhood providers. Learn how a common language of trauma-informed care can help address common barriers to quality care for young children who have experienced trauma.

BT-C3: How Other People Do It: Unlocking Our Implicit Biases Regarding Parenting Practices to Deepen Relations with Families

Description: Explore parenting practices from cultures worldwide and which of these practices may trigger implicit biases. Develop a deeper understanding of the “why” behind various parenting practices and the diverse families entering your program. Learn strategies to build relationships with families while embracing cultural differences and helping families better understand your program.

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To realize an equitable and just early care and education system, all providers including Family, Friend and Neighbor (FFN) child care providers need support.  Reflect with us on the Minnesota Department of Human Services expansion of early childhood mental health consultation to racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse FFN grantee staff and provider groups.

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Join us to discuss the joys, benefits, and challenges of working with toddlers in an outdoor learning environment. We will share curriculum examples of how we meet early learning standards while engaging in nature-based play with children and how we communicate children’s learning with their families.

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Learn how Illinois is implementing innovative approaches to increase equitable access to early intervention (EI) services, including a pilot study connecting Medicaid-eligible NICU babies to EI. Family members and providers involved in the study will share their perspectives on accessing EI services for children with medically complex needs and discuss policy recommendations.

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Oklahoma has created an array of supports for infants with prenatal substance exposure, pregnant and postpartum individuals, and families affected by substance use. Learn about these and additional supports designed for families of color to maintain family integrity and to prevent or reduce involvement with the criminal justice and child welfare systems.

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Children in the presence of supportive adults who embrace their preferences and expression are more likely to have higher self-esteem and sense of identity.  Learn about concepts such as gender and gender expression and explore your understanding to better support children and families.

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New Mexico has taken big steps recently to expand access to early childhood education. So, what has it meant for families? We look at multiple dimensions of equitable access to early childhood education, through research and data, building community and family capacity, and designing inclusive communication strategies.

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Family Support Team is a multidisciplinary initiative to address parental mental health and parenting needs in an urban safety net hospital’s pediatric clinic setting. We will highlight screening methods used and treatment provided, recommended practices for multidisciplinary collaboration, and review outcomes from the first year of programming.

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Montefiore’s HealthySteps program predominantly serves marginalized and immigrant families in the most diverse area in the country, with the highest rates of poverty in the state—further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how moving to a virtual group-based intervention removed some barriers to service access, and about new curricula developed to support the parent-child dyad and address specific behavioral and developmental concerns of families referred to HealthySteps. Additionally, gain insights into two psychoeducation and support-focused groups, their piloted group-based intervention curricula, outcome data,  and clinical vignettes to demonstrate program efficacy and goals for future development.

 

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A case formulation transforms assessment information into a set of working hypotheses about the child’s difficulties in the context of complex family dynamics and history. Learn about our method and how it includes essential questions to consider and a method for creating an empathic narrative that supports caregivers and points the way to effective treatment.

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Young parenthood is already hard enough. But the stigmas that young parents face amplify the barriers in part because their victory stories defying expectations against all odds aren’t applauded enough. Join our Practice Plenary Speaker and founder of Generation Hope, Nicole Lynn Lewis, as she sits down for an intimate conversation with ZERO TO THREE members about how we can better support young mothers and their families.

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As the greatest threat to public health in the 21st century, climate change can feel completely overwhelming, especially as its impact exacerbates existing inequities. But the world we want to create is worth imagining and pursuing—a world in which children can thrive. As early childhood professionals, we have great opportunities to support real and sustainable transformation. What is the latest research on climate change, why should early childhood professionals be leaders in this, and what can and should we do?