TTAC is pleased to launch a series of modules aimed at expanding participants’ understanding of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH).

The first module in the series, Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) and the Impact of Early Childhood Adversity (An Overview of the Topic), will provide learners with a framework to understand how parents, caregivers, and other significant persons interacting with young children, are critical to their healthy development; how early experiences and relationships can have a profound, positive and protective impact on children's future development; and how trauma and adversity impacts on children during this important developmental period.

The second module in the series, Nurturing Resilience: Supporting Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, will sensitize learners to the important contribution of sensitive, responsive, and reliable caregiving to healthy development and how to identify those caregiving qualities. It will further highlight how meaningful interactions in the routine activities of daily life can serve as opportunities to build relationships that promote healthy development; how they may strengthen families’ protective factors and be a source of positive early childhood experiences. Finally, it will enable learners to understand “parallel process”; how you relate and interact with children shapes how others relate and interact with them.

LMSWs and LMHCS who complete the trainings will be eligible to receive 1 CE credit after completing a short quiz on the content of the modules. CEU instructions can be found here. 

How to access the modules:

• Go to lms.ctacny.org and log in or create an account
• After you are logged in, click on CATALOGUE
• Scroll down or search to find the course on Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Click on that course and click ENROLL
• Once enrolled, click on MY COURSES Click on the course to launch the module

Please view the video below for step-by-step instructions on how to access the modules. (If you would like step by step instructions displayed on the video please turn on Closed Captioning)