Annual Making Connections Conference
RIAIMH partners with various community and state agencies to offer an annual conference that builds on a specific topic of interest, presented by a nationally-known speaker. We use this opportunity to offer research-based information that serves to broaden our thinking and transform our practices. RIAIMH convenes a Conference Planning Committee (members are from the community, RIAIMH Board, and RIAIMH staff) to work together on the specifics of this event, including intended audience, IMH-related topic; and links to ongoing initiatives in the State.
Save the date- 2025 cONFERENCE!
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Virtual
More Details to Follow
2025 Keynote Speaker:
Kate Rosenblum, PhD, ABPP, IMH-E Professor, Departments of Psychiatry, OB/Gyn, and Pediatrics Co-Director, Zero to Thrive
| Dr. Kate Rosenblum is a clinical and developmental psychologist and holds dual appointments as a Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Obstetrics and Gynecology. In the Department of Psychiatry she co-directs the Women and Infants Mental Health Program, the Infant and Early Childhood Clinic, and Zero to Thrive (www.zerotothrive.org), a program focused on promoting the health and resilience of families with young children facing adversity through research, training, and service. Dr. Rosenblum’s expertise in infancy and early childhood, parent-infant relationships, and parent mental health is broad. For example, in collaboration with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services she is the lead evaluator of a multi-site statewide evaluation of infant mental health home visiting services, encompassing a number of studies including several community-based quasi-experimental pre-post trials as well as a university-based randomized controlled trial. Her expertise in parenting, maternal mental health, and infant-parent interventions is nationally recognized; she is the current President of the Board of the international organization the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health, and she is an Academy Fellow with the national organization ZERO TO THREE. She has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles and chapters and has been funded by NIH as a PI or Co-I continuously for more than 15 years. These funded studies and manuscripts include several RCTs, including an NIMH-funded effortful control intervention to reduce preschool anxiety (“Kid Power”), as well as a series of studies testing the efficacy of a mental health and parenting intervention she co-developed with colleagues to serve pregnant women and/or parents of infants and young children (i.e., the “Strong Roots Programs” which include Mom Power and Fraternity of Fathers, and several adaptations for military families, Early Head Start, and child welfare). Her research, supported by both federal and foundation grants, emphasizes early relational health and prevention and intervention for families with infants and young children facing adversity. Many of the families she works with have experienced significant disruptions, including separations, trauma, and/or loss. In these contexts her work focuses on strengthening protective factors to enhance family resilience. |
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2024 Registration fee (coming soon): (members), (non-members), (student members), (non-members students) CEU fee - select/purchase during registration: NASW Continuing Education Units offered ($15/hr), CELP PD contact hours offered (free) IECMH-Competency® hours offered - noted on Attendance Certificate. |
RIAIMH thanks the following organizations for their generous support of our Annual Making Connections Conference:
Registration and Cancellation:
Pre-registration is required. Cancellation requests emailed to the event manager prior to 11:59 pm 24 hours before, will receive a full refund. No refunds for cancellation requests received on or after the day of, regardless of the cause for cancellation including failure to join meeting on the day of the training. If the training cannot be held due to circumstances beyond the hosts’ control (natural disaster, strike, fire, severe weather, illness of speaker, speaker cancellation, etc.) the seminar will be rescheduled, if possible, and the registration fee applied to that date. If rescheduling is not possible or registrant cannot attend the rescheduled date, reimbursement will be provided less any actual costs accrued.
Instructions for Zoom will be included in the confirmation email sent to all participants upon completion of registration.
For questions please contact Sheila Grant Orphanides, the RIAIMH Professional Development Coordinator, info@riaimh.org
Continuing Education Credits:
Full attendance meets the qualifications for ___ hours of continuing education credit as required by the National Association of Social Workers, Rhode Island Chapter-NASW units (including __ Cross-Cultural Practice hours) and the Center for Early Learning Professionals (CELP)-credit for Rhode Island's Early Childhood Workforce.
Attendance also meets the requirements for ___ IMH-Competency aligned training hours.
In order to receive CE Credits, participants must purchase CE units ($15/hr) in addition to registration (CE unit price is NOT included in registration). Full attendance is required in order to receive CE units and no partial credit will be offered. Failure to meet these requirements will prohibit RIAIMH from issuing CE certificates and no refund will be provided.
RIAIMH is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. RIAIMH is a founding member of the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health.
RIAIMH is an affiliate of the World Association for Infant Mental Health. |
