News Articles

Here you will find featured articles from other sources that relate to the practice of infant mental health; the influence of MI-AIMH and its members; and developments in local, state, national and world policies and practices that are important to professionals in the infant-family field.

2009 Selma Fraiberg/Betty Tableman/Emerging Scholar/Researcher Awards: MI-AIMH invites any and all involved in work with very young children and families to carefully consider who best exemplifies the work begun by Selma Fraiberg and the ongoing work of Betty Tableman...
ZERO TO THREE Seeks Consultants for Military Communities: ZERO TO THREE seeks 10 qualified consultants to provide training at selected military communities engaged in ZERO TO THREE's training and technical assistance programs...
Our Celebration Continues: The celebration continues with Barack Obama's election as our next President of the United States...
Michigan Coalition for Children and Families: The Kidventional Wisdom Newsletter: #1 Advice for candidates to keep children in mind 10 Things a Candidate Can do to Make Kids Priority 1 in Michigan Michigan Listen: Ask local children's organizations to brief you on the status of and needs of children in your community or state...
Celebrate Babies and Nurturing Relationships with MI-AIMH: October 27-31, 2008: The MI-AIMH Executive Board, Training and Membership Committees enthusiastically invite all MI-AIMH chapters to celebrate babies and nurturing relationships during the week of October 27-31, 2008! Each chapter celebration may be big or small - a brown bag lunch, a video/DVD from the MI-AIMH/WAIMH Media Library, a clinical discussion group, a half day training with a local IMH trainer, a reflective practice group - whatever you wish...
State Theatre in Traverse City to Host Motherbaby Film Festival: Beginning Wednesday October 15, the State Theatre will host the Motherbaby International Film Festival...
Kids Priority 1 Website for Election Advocacy: The Michigan Coalition for Children and Families (MCCF has launched a new initiative, Kids Priority 1, to make children and youth THE priority during the 2008 election and the next legislative session and budget cycle...
MI-AIMH membership moves to calendar year: MI-AIMH’s membership is growing! In response, we have aligned the membership year with the calendar year—January through December...
Call for Proposals for the 2009 Conference: Call for Proposals for the 2009 conference, Healing Relationships: Preventing the Transmission of Intergenerational Trauma (April 26 through April 28, 2009 in Ann Arbor, MI) is now available! The Call for Workshop and Student Poster Presentations are available for download here...
New RAND Study on Investing in Early Childhood Programs: The RAND Corporation has published a new paper entitled The Economics of Early Childhood: What the Dismal Science Has to Say About Investing in Children, by M...
The Infant Crier - a special issue on fatherhood: MI-AIMH is now offering a digital download of the Winter 2008 issue of Infant Crier, featuring 'fathers'...
Borrowing Babies is a Bad Reality: The Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health believes that it is the responsibility of our organization to speak up and convey what the reality of this “social experiment” is for the babies involved...
Colina Foundation Gift Funds Translation of Wheels: MI-AIMH has received a gift of $3,000 from the Colina Foundation toward the production of a Spanish translation of MI-AIMH's Pre-School Stages Wheels...
The Minds of Babes: Infant mental health pioneer stresses early bonds: Read about Infant Mental Health Mentor, Joan Shirilla, in the Traverse City Record-Eagle...
Betty Tableman honored with Public Citizen of the Year award: Friends and colleagues gathered at the Michigan Chapter of the National Association of Social Workers Annual Conference to honor Betty Tableman with the Public Citizen of the Year Award...
Infant Mental Health Journal: Click to see the Infant Mental Health Journal flyer...
Julie Ribaudo interviewed in the Public News Service: Read about it at the Public News Service site...
Deborah Weatherston joins University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University: Deborah Weatherston, PhD has been invited to join University Outreach and Engagement at Michigan State University as a Community Senior Fellow...
MI-AIMH Endorsement Receives National Award: The Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) has received a national award from The Annapolis Coalition on Behavioral Health Workforce Education for innovative educational practice in the area of Child and Adolescent workforce education...
U. S. Children's Issues Get Some New Funding: Caitlin G. Johnson , OneWorld US NEW YORK , Oct 6 (OneWorld) - While the $700 billion financial rescue package is capturing headlines, child advocates across the country are quietly cheering some recent successes in Congress -- including significant reform to the child welfare system -- while raising concerns about a setback that may leave many homeless children without services they need...