Announcing Our 29th Annual Conference
September 19 and 20, 2024
at the Holiday Inn, Concord, NH
This year’s theme is “Celebrating and Engaging Diverse Family Structures.”
Workshop topics include.
Working with dads/fathers and parenting partners
Enhancing engagement with caregivers and families
Inclusive strategies for supporting kinship, foster and adoptive family relationships
Recognizing the needs of families with LGBTQ+ caregivers
The unique needs of refugee and new American families
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Presenting our keynote speaker
Raymond Levy PsyD
Clinical Psychologist, Founder & Director, The Fatherhood Project Mass General Hospital, Psychiatry, Boston, MA
Dr. Levy has been a Clinical Psychologist at Mass General Hospital, Boston, for 29 years and founded The Fatherhood Project in 2013. He has edited two books on psychotherapy research and more recently, articles and a chapter about fatherhood and fatherhood research with Dr. Milton Kotelchuck. Dr. Levy is the proud father of two adopted adult children and has made fatherhood central to his life.
Fathers were once thought of as "the forgotten parent," and fatherhood as a critically important topic has not been taken seriously in academia, health communities, social policy, obstetrical clinical practice, or business until recent decades. Now, in public health, federal funding, programmatic initiatives, and research worlds, more attention is being paid to fathers as a central component of family life, including their frontline caretaking functions and their economic contribution to children and families.
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Having fun at the 2023 Conference!
New Hampshire Association for Infant Mental Health Annual Conferences through the years
2023 - First Relationships: Fostering Emotional Resilience From the Start
2022 - From Community to Clinic, Best Practices in Early Identification
2021 - Understanding Bias, Celebrating Diversity
2019 - Understanding and Addressing the Impact of Maternal Substance Misuse
2018 - Breaking the Cycle of Poverty: Overcoming its Impacts, Successful Strategies for Engaging Families
2017 - Working with the Worrier: Addressing Anxiety Concerns in Young Children
2016 - Self Reflection as a Clinical Tool for Families, Service Providers, and Teams
2015 - From Risk to Resilience
2014 - Understanding and Promoting Neuro-development from Prenatal to Pre-school
2013 -Trauma in Early Childhood: Assessment, Intervention and Supporting Families
2012 - Focusing on Fatherhood
2011 - Climbing the Ladder Toward Competency in Young Children's Mental Health
2010 - Eat Sleep and Be Merry: Regulation Concerns in Young Children
2009 – Evidenced-based Practices for Working with Young Children and Families
2008 – Attachment: Connecting for Life
2007 – Social-Emotional Development: Promising Practices, Research and Policy
2006 – Supporting Young Children through Separation and Loss
2005 – The Screening and Assessing of the Social-Emotional Concerns
2004 – Approaches That Work: Multi-Stressed Families and their Young Children
2003 – A Better Beginning: Parents with Mental Illness and their Young Children
2002 – The Road Less Traveled: Adoptive Families in the New Millennium
2001 – Processing Trauma and Terrorism
2000 – The Neurobiology of Child Development: Bridging the Gap Between Theory Research and Practice
1999 – Coming Together for Children and Families: Developing Comprehensive Systems of Care
1998 – Trauma: A Multi-Dimensional View
1997 – Fostering the Well Being of Families
1996 – A Promising Future
1995 – Building Relationships: Families and Professionals as Partners