Virtual Event: Take care of the people who care for me: Supporting military families coping with parental mental health issues

**Live Attendance Required to earn CEUs** (complete all requirements within 30 days of event).

Health and Development Risk and Protective Factors: How and why multiple factors—including community, economic, political, and cultural influences—support or impede healthy development and the quality of relationships; and ways to work with families to identify strengths and use them as resources to reinforce protective factors, help manage challenges, and reduce risks.

LEARN and Chat: Take care of the people who care for me: Supporting military families coping with parental mental health issues

May 15, 2024 , 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM ET

Special Member Exclusive follow-on discussion, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

Pregnancy and parenthood are typically wonderful and challenging times in the lives of families. One of the key protective factors for infant well-being is the mental health of parents. Military family life can bring its own set of challenges and stressors around these experiences such as frequent moves, isolation, deployment and hazardous risks. This webinar will explore the risk and prevalence of mental health problems experienced in military families and the impact of these challenges on the baby’s development and relationships. Resources to promote and provide supportive treatment will be shared.

As a result of participating in this event, learners will be able to:

Identify the risks and prevalence of mental health problems among military connected parents/caregivers (both active duty and dependent partners).
Describe the specific circumstances of military family life that contribute to both risk and protective factors for families with infants/young children.
Recognize how infants and young children might experience parental mental health problems and recognize signs of distress in the very young child.
List resources to support military families with young children who experience parental mental health issues.

Member Exclusive w/ZERO TO THREE, 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM ET

ZERO TO THREE is excited to invite members to stick around for a brief follow-on discussion to further process takeaways from the event.

Kathleen Mulrooney

Director, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Strategy-Program

ZERO TO THREE

Kathy Mulrooney is a passionate advocate and recognized thought leader in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH). She has worked around the world and across many systems of professionals who touch the lives of infants, young children and their families. She has worked with ZERO TO THREE for the last 12 years of her nearly 45-year career in the mental health field. At the heart of her IECMH work is her deep commitment to the core values of relationship, reflection, cultural humility, and lifelong learning. Kathy also revels in her role as “grandma” to her young grandchildren who remind her, on a very personal level, of the importance of strong connections and the tremendous capabilities of babies and young children.

Kathy serves as the Director Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) Strategy-Program for ZERO TO THREE. In this role she provides leadership across ZERO TO THREE programs related to IECMH and is a member of ZERO TO THREE’s IECMH Leadership Team. Kathy thus coordinates IECMH activities within ZERO TO THREE and in collaboration with external partners. She is deeply engaged in the organization’s racial equity, diversity and inclusion work and the alignment of this work with advocating for changes in the IECMH field to center the rich and diverse sources of knowledge, perspective taking, experiences and leadership of persons of color and other persons or groups who have been marginalized.

Kathy was a member of the Diagnostic Classification Revision Task Force which produced DC:0-5™ and led the original development of DC:0-5 training curricula and training offerings. She has overseen delivery of DC:0-5™ training efforts around the world. She is one of the co-editors of the DC:0-5 Casebook which is expected to be published in Spring 2023.

Kathy, in collaboration with other field experts, also designed a series of IECMH training topics which are available for clinicians and allied professionals. Kathy works closely with ZERO TO THREE’s Policy Center to advance IECMH on local, state and national levels. Kathy has worked to promote IECMH through her various roles at ZERO TO THREE including work with Military Family Projects, Project LAUNCH, and Professional Development & Workforce Innovations team. Kathy brings extensive experience in promoting reflective practice and reflective consultation in a variety of settings and systems. Likewise, she has worked to promote trauma-informed practice, and has been involved in terrorism and disaster response supports nationally.

Summer Jones

Senior Writer and Training Specialist, Military Family Projects

ZERO TO THREE

Summer Jones is a Senior Writer and Training Specialist for Military Family Projects at ZERO TO THREE. In this role she provides training and consultation for Army New Parent Support Program’s Home Visitors, supporting their work with military-connected parents. She has facilitated numerous webinars, lives, and distal trainings for multi-disciplinary professionals.

She is endorsed as an Infant Mental Health Mentor, Policy. She is an experienced home visitor, supervising and managing a counseling program that provided in-home mental health services and parent education to mothers who are screened as at-risk for depression. She has also provided programmatic and technical support to states, territories, tribes, and communities implementing federally-funded grants and programs supporting early childhood development, mental health, well-being, and education.

Jennifer Novak

Senior Writer and Training Specialist, Military Family Projects

ZERO TO THREE

Jennifer Novak is the Senior Writer/Training Specialist for Military Family Projects at ZERO TO THREE. She has a specialty focus on the needs of children and families impacted by trauma and applies a trauma-informed lens in creating these tools. She provides training and technical assistance to professionals and develops evidence-based resources designed to support military families with young children.

As a former military spouse for ten years, she brings personal experience and knowledge of the issues surrounding military and veteran families to her work. She holds a Master’s Degree from Florida State University in Social Work, and a Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Florida in Family, Youth, and Community Sciences. She also holds an LMSW in the State of Maryland and provides part-time mental health counseling services to children and adults.

**Live Attendance Required** (complete within 30 days of event). All registrants will have 30-day access to the session recording.

ZERO TO THREE is pleased to offer Continuing Education Units for a wide range of learning events, both in person and on line.

Contact hours and CEUs are automatically added to your registration for no additional charge. Registrants can earn up to 0.1 CEU or 1 Contact hour for attending this event. Continuing Education Units are awarded with live attendance, completed session evaluation, and a passing quiz score of 75% or greater.

Learner Objectives:

Identify the risks and prevalence of mental health problems among military connected parents/caregivers (both active duty and dependent partners).
Describe the specific circumstances of military family life that contribute to both risk and protective factors for families with infants/young children.
Recognize how infants and young children might experience parental mental health problems and recognize signs of distress in the very young child.
List resources to support military families with young children who experience parental mental health issues.

Contact hours offered may vary per discipline. For more information regarding ZERO TO THREE CEUs, please visit: https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1657-earn-ceus-from-zero-to-three. Please note: A computer or electronic device with internet connection is required for successful completion. This session will be hosted for one hour and includes a brief introduction, 45 mins of content based teaching, and 10 to 15 minutes of Q and A. Questions can be posted throughout the session, and the presenter will address as many as possible.

Additional Details:

ZERO TO THREE is accredited as an Authorized Provider of Continuing Education and Training by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). In obtaining this accreditation, we have demonstrated compliance with the ANSI/IACET Standard, which is recognized internationally as a standard of excellence in instructional practices. As the official standard for continuing education and training, IACET Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are recognized by a wide range of organizations, including professional associations, regulatory boards, corporations, and universities.

Though IACET CEUs are widely accepted, it is up to each organization to choose whether or not it will accept them. For this reason, we strongly advise that you confirm in advance if a particular body accepts IACET CEUs. To view a list of companies, regulatory boards, and organizations that have reported to accept the IACET CEU credit, please click here. This list is not exhaustive, nor does it guarantee that an IACET CEU will automatically be accepted.

*Presenters have affirmed that they do not have proprietary interest in products, instruments, devices, services or materials discussed in this course, and have confirmed that they have not been compensated in relation to this presentation.

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