EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE

06/24/2008 - 8:00am
06/24/2008 - 5:00pm

times given are approximate

 

EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCE

 

JUNE 23-25, 2008

 

Consortium Library, Third Floor, University of Alaska Anchorage

 

Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services & the Department of Education and Early Development

 

Hosted by the Center for Human Development, University of Alaska Anchorage

 

 

 

AGENDA SUMMARY:

 

 

Monday 9:00-Noon        Welcome

 

                                   

 

                                    Early Childhood Mental Health- Kathryn Shea, LCSW

 

                                                "Moving to a 'Wellness' View of Early Childhood Mental Health: Developing a Public Health Approach"- Karen Finello, PhD

 

                                                Alaska Early Childhood Mental Health Foundations

 

 

Monday 1:00-5:00         Track One:  Kathryn Shea, LCSW

 

Mental Health Diagnosis of Young Children using the DC 0-3R (Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood, Revised Edition (DC:0–3R)),

 

 

Track Two:   Karen Finello, PhD

 

Screening, Assessment, and Observation in Young Children's Socio-Emotional Development 

 

 

Tuesday 8:30-4:30         Tracks One and Two continue

 

 

Wednesday 8:30-4:30    Neal Horen, PhD

 

Intervening with Young Children and Their Families

 

 

Case studies and video presentations will be used throughout.

 

Lunch will be provided all three days.

 

 

THE SPEAKERS:

 

 

Karen Moran Finello, PhD, is an applied developmental psychologist with a specialization in birth to five-year-olds and their families.  She is Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology in the USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences.  Dr. Finello is the Project Director of Project ABC (About Building Connections for Young Children & Families), a SAMHSA funded collaborative in SPA 4 focused on children under age 5, and Corazon de La Familia, a home visiting program at the USC-University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

 

 

Kathryn Shea, LCSW, has over 25 years of experience working with children with serious emotional and behavioral disorders. Kathryn specializes in the areas of infant/young children’s mental health and fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). She is currently the chief operating officer at The Florida Center for Child and Family Development in Sarasota. Kathryn is a national trainer in infant/young children’s mental health and a Field Trainer for SAMHSA FASD Center for Excellence; sharing both her professional expertise and personal stories of raising an adopted son with fetal alcohol syndrome.

 

 

Dr. Neal Horen is a clinical child psychologist who has focused on community-based work for the last ten years. He is Associate Director of Training for the National Training Institute on Effective Practices and works with states and communities building systems of care for young children and their families. Dr. Horen is also the Director of the Hoya Clinic at Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development. He also has a clinical practice that offers therapeutic assessment and intervention to young children and families.

 

 

No fees for advance registration.  $30 at the door.  REGISTRATION INSTRUCTIONS COMING SOON!

 

Scholarships available for DBH Treatment Grantees and Early Interventionists and possibly Head Start Mental Health Consultants.  

 

 

 

 

 

Shirley Pittz, M.S.

Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Coordinator

Office of Children's Services, State of Alaska

323 E. 4th Avenue

Anchorage, Alaska 99501

(907) 269-8923 Phone

(907) 269-3497Fax

Consortium Library, Third Floor, University of Alaska Anchorage
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