This presentation will offer guidance to practitioners on providing clinical and therapeutic support to young children who are in foster care. It will review the life experiences of children who enter foster care as infants or toddlers, often including attachment disorders or attachment disruptions, sometimes augmented by other losses and traumatic experiences. It will also review common characteristics of parents of young children who are involved in the child welfare system.

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As knowledge and understanding around the Adverse Childhood Experience Study grows, so does the need for tangible action steps to build resilience. To do this, we all must recognize that we have the opportunity and shared responsibility to build resilience of children and families. This 90-minute training begins with a brief review of the ACE Study, discusses the importance of intentional resilience strengthening and engages participants in perspective shift work to equip them with everyday action steps that are grounded in the Protective Factors Framework.

Reconnect and Renew your support of professionals who work on behalf of infants, toddlers, and their families.

The ripple effect of immigration policy enforcement on young children in immigrant families is an urgent topic for infant and early childhood providers (pediatricians, mental health clinicians, early childhood educators, home visitors, and other frontline workers).

Presented by: Ross W. Greene, Ph.D., originator of the innovative, evidence-based approach called Collaborative & Proactive Solutions (CPS)

Each year, the New York Zero to Three Network, in memory of a founding Board Member, Hedi Levenback, honors an innovator in the field of infancy and early childhood. In 2024 we honored Dr. Serena Wieder.

Cosponsorship webinar with New York State Parenting Education Partnership (NYSPEP) and the New York Zero-to-Three Network (NYZTT).

The workshop will review the guiding principles and lessons learned from implementing HealthySteps, a multidisciplinary pediatric-child development program offered to families with new babies during early pediatric well-child visits.

Presenters: Ken Kessel, LCSW and Deric Boston, MSW, LCSW

In this workshop, Deric Boston and Ken Kessel discuss the scope, contours and spectrum of these complications, share their sensibilities, with case examples, on how they approach them, and explore the larger contexts in which these issues arise.

Presenter: Allison Hollihan, LMHC

The Osborne Association’s NY Initiative for Children of Incarcerated Parents shared how best to support children whose parents are involved with the criminal legal system from arrest through reentry.

Panel discussion moderated by Cynthia Piltch, PhD, MPH, CPS, with participation from Jacquie Martinez, FPS, CPS, COAPS, Ziona Rivera and Sandi Whitney-Sarles, MS, CPS,COAPS. A collaboration between the NYZTT, New York State Parenting Education Partnership, and the Center of Excellence for Psychosocial and Systemic Research.

Reflecting in and Across Differences: Developing Reflective Capacities in Ourselves and Our Clients

Keynote speakers: Arietta Slade, Ph.D. and Christiana Awosan, Ph.D.

Night of laughter and support for NYZTT. Hosted by Kendra Cunningham (DryBar Comedy), guest comics include Alyce Chan (MomComedy), Ivy Eisenberg (The Moth), and Maggie Champagne.

The Therapeutic Relationship in Early Intervention and Early Childhood Work

Speakers: Bonnie Keilty, EdD and Ashley Cattaneo, MSEd

Panelists: Masayo Douglas, MSEd/MSW candidate, Susan Rabinowicz, PhD., and Richard Kahn, PhD, MS, RD.

Moderator: Margorie Brickley, MSEd

Presented by the New York Zero-to-Three Network and New York State Association for Infant Mental Health

Authors: Dr. Suzi Tortora & Dr. Miri Keren, Dr. Susan A. Stallings-Sahler & Dr. Gilbert M. Foley, Linda Garofallou, MS,IMHS E@III & Louisa Silva, MD, MPH

Presenters: Natalie Brooks, Ph.D., LCSW-R. IECMH-E

Presenters: Dr. Lisa Wiggins, Dr. Elizabeth Isakson, and Dr. Romina Barros

Presenter: Kiran Malpe, LCSW and Susan Chinitz, Psy,D.

Tribute Memorial for Rebecca Shahmoon Shanok

co-hosts: Barbara Greenstein, Ph.D and Gil Foley, Ed.D

Breakfast for Babies is a collaborative project of NYS-AIMH and NYZTT. Open to all who work with or on behalf of very young children and their families – those who work in childcare and early learning; home visiting; Early Intervention; psychotherapy; child welfare; healthcare; policy and research, and more!

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