Adding to our Family Support Toolbox: Let’s Talk Developmental Milestones and Early Childhood Mental Health

Join Amanda Miller (Executive Director) and Jessica Gervais (Training Coordinator) along with Dr. Katie Herron in an interactive conversation around the importance of understanding developmental milestones when interacting with young children. Dr. Herron will offer concrete examples and resources and consider how milestones should be part of a larger early detection system. In particular, social-emotional milestones play an important role in supporting early childhood mental health. This session will define early childhood mental health while interacting with participants to identify concrete ways to help young children in feeling safe enough to learn and explore their emotions, the emotions of others, and their environment.

Learning Objectives: 

Participants will be able to explain the value of tracking developmental milestones and know where to find additional materials.

Participants will be able to define early childhood mental health, understand how it is different from adult mental health, and how it is relevant to their context and setting.

Participants will leave with 2-3 specific strategies for tracking developmental milestones and/or supporting early childhood mental health with families and/or young children.

Two (2) CEUs will be offered to participants who join this interactive session and complete the evaluation.