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To best serve infants, young children, and families, we must support all professionals who work with them to incorporate core principles of social and emotional health and well-being into their practice. To address this need, the Rhode Island Association for Infant Mental Health (RIAIMH) promotes a nationally established set of Competency Guidelines for Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health® (MI-AIMH Copyright© 2024), known as the Competency Guidelines, for the diverse array of RI providers in the infant and family workforces. Building a competent workforceThe Competency Guidelines continue to identify knowledge, skills, and reflective practice approaches that support the development of competency in infant and early childhood mental health across disciplines and in multiple service settings. Competency Guidelines information can be used to build a comprehensive infant and early childhood mental health system. They create a shared framework, "map" for professional development across all sectors and disciplines in the field of infants, early childhood, and families across the full spectrum of service deliver, including promotion, prevention, treatment and intervention, and macro. Competency DomainsThe Competency Guidelines outline the requirements for Endorsement by guiding one's development of knowledge, skills and best practices, gained through specialized I/EC experiences (education, work, in-service training, and reflective supervision/consultation). The Competency Guidelines® are comprised of 8 domains:
GET STARTEDReview the Competency Guidelines section of your category. Competency Guidelines This page in EASy will tell you about all the competencies aligned with your category and the category requirements.
| RESOURCESThe IMH-Competency Guidelines® are aligned with many in-service training and evidence-based practice models. RIAIMH has worked with local agencies to align program training with the IMH-Competencies. Programs such as Early Intervention, CCRI CDA certificate program, and MIECHV-HFA are aligned with the IMH-Competencies, ask your Endorsement Coordinator for more info. As a reminder, all RIAIMH professional development, learning collaboratives and training are aligned with the IMH-Competencies. The suggested competencies are listed on the Attendance Certificate.
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