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 | |
| $0.00 Behavioral Health Clinicians funded through the Division of Behavioral Health |
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are increasingly being used to support caregivers, educators, and helping professionals—but their use with children and families raises important ethical questions. This training explores the ethical considerations of using AI to support children and caregivers, with a focus on safety, equity, transparency, privacy, and human-centered care.
Participants will learn how AI tools are currently being used in caregiving, education, and mental health contexts; potential benefits and risks; and how to apply ethical decision-making frameworks when considering AI use with children and families. Emphasis will be placed on developmentally appropriate use, cultural responsiveness, informed consent, data privacy, and maintaining strong human relationships in
caregiving and therapeutic work.
This training is designed for early childhood professionals, mental health providers, educators, and caregivers seeking practical guidance on navigating AI responsibly while protecting the well-being of children and families.
Lindsey Wold
Lindsey Wold holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a master’s degree in Applied Behavioral Health Research, with a background in neuroscience and infant and early childhood mental health. Her work is grounded in relationship-based, developmentally informed, and trauma-responsive approaches to supporting children and caregivers. Lindsey brings experience from both research and practice and focuses on translating current research into accessible learning through professional training and public education. Her work draws from evidence-based and IMH-aligned approaches, including training in Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and other relational models, with an emphasis on ethics, equity, and protecting human relationships within the systems that serve young children and families.
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members | |
| $0.00 Behavioral Health Clinicians funded through the Division of Behavioral Health |
WEBINAR DESCRIPTION:
Childhood trauma significantly impacts brain development, often leading to lasting changes in neurobiology that affect cognitive, language, and social-emotional functioning. This webinar will delve into the neurobiological underpinnings of trauma and its effects on key developmental areas: language, autobiographical memory, and self-regulation. We explored how trauma disrupts the brain’s capacity to process and communicate experiences, affecting children's language development and their ability to construct coherent life stories. We will also examine how trauma hinders self-regulation, leading to challenges in managing emotions and behaviors.
The session will highlight intervention strategies directed at parents and children to facilitate children’s communication and self-regulation. Attendees will gain insight into therapeutic approaches that support narrative expression, empower emotional regulation, and build safe, supportive environments for children affected by trauma. This webinar is ideal for educators, speech-language pathologists, mental health professionals, and caregivers seeking to deepen their understanding of trauma-informed care and its role in promoting healing and development in children.
Carol Westby, Ph.D
Carol Westby, Ph.D., has published and presented nationally and internationally on play, theory of mind, language-literacy relationships, ADHD, narrative/expository development and facilitation, screen time, children and families who have experienced trauma, and issues in assessment and intervention with culturally/linguistically diverse populations She, has received the Honors of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) and the Award for Contributions to Multicultural Affairs, and is Board Certified in Child Language and Language Disorders. Dr. Westby has received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Geneva College and the University of Iowa’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology.
| Costs: | $45.00 AK-AIMH Members |
| $60.00 Non-members | |
| $0.00 Behavioral Health Clinicians funded through the Division of Behavioral Health |
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