Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement® Overview
For questions about the Endorsement, please contact vaendorsement@vcu.edu
What is Endorsement?
Endorsement® through VAIMH is an internationally recognized credential for professionals working with, or on behalf of pregnant women, infants, very young children and their families. Endorsement is a reflection of a professional commitment to best practice in the infant and family fields. Endorsement is one of the first and most comprehensive efforts in the country to identify best practice competencies at multiple levels and across multiple disciplines. The work that you are doing as a professional, serving the 0 to 3 and/or 3 to 6 year old population is specialized. Whether you do intervention work, teach, support parents or other infant and early childhood mental health professionals, you carry a special knowledge and skill set that endorsement captures.
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Pathways to Endorsement
Each category of Endorsement has specific work, education, in-service training, and reflective supervision/consultation requirements, specific to infants, young children (aged 0 - 6 years) and their families. Learn more...
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Funders & Connections
The Virginia Association for Infant Mental Health (VAIMH) partners with the Early Childhood Mental Health Virginia (ECMHVA) Initiative at VCU's Partnership for People with Disabilities to implement the Virginia Endorsement® for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health (referred to as Endorsement®).
VAIMH is a member of the Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health and holds the license for Endorsement.
Funding for the ECMHVA Initiative is made available through the support of our largest funder, the Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia at the Department of Behavioral Health & Developmental Services (DBHDS), and by our sustaining partners:
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The Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) - Early Childhood Special Education & Head Start State Collaboration Office;
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Early Impact Virginia (EIVA) - Alliance of Home Visiting Programs in Virginia; and
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The Partnership for People with Disabilities at Virginia Commonwealth University's School of Education
ECMHVA Initiative
Jackie Robinson Brock, IMH-E®, IMHM-P, Early Childhood Mental Health Virginia
