Apply for the Dolores Norton Research Award
The Dolores Norton Research Award is presented each year to recognize a promising doctoral student or post-doctoral scholar in the field of infant and toddler social-emotional health, development, and intervention.
The award honors Dolores Norton, known to most as “Dodie,” who is the Samuel Deutsch Professor Emerita at the School of Social Service Administration of the University of Chicago.
The award provides $5,000 to support research on an open topic regarding:
- social-emotional development or mental health during the zero to five age period;
- behaviors, beliefs, and mental health of expectant parents or parents of young children; and/or interventions for infants, young children, or families.
- The award is open to doctoral students or postdoctoral fellows enrolled in or affiliated with an educational or research institution in Illinois. Area of discipline is open.
Applications are due 5 pm (CT), August 23, 2019.
Click here for more details and a printable applicationInfant/Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant
2019 Seminars
Pleading with Parents: End the Technology Distraction!
Presenters: Susan Gittings, M.A., Amy Cardin, M.S
July 16 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm at JCFS ChicagoBuilding Upon Parenting Strengths in a Multi-Cultural, Multi-Lingual Community
Presenters: Jeanine Woltman, Carol Montgomery Fate, LCSW, I/ECMH
July 23 @ 9:00 am - 12:00 pm at DuPage Regional Office of EducationShifting the Focus: Prioritizing the Developmental Needs of Infants and Toddlers through the Early Childhood Court Team
Presenters: Sherri L. Moore MSW, LCSW, Kimberly A. Mann, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.
August 6 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm at Erikson InstituteUse of Self in Treatment with Children and Families
Presenters: Linnet Mendez, LCPC, Greer Beckman, LCSW, RDT, Wendy Guyer, LCSW
September 17 @ 10:00 am - 11:30 am at JCFS ChicagoShifting the Focus: Prioritizing the Developmental Needs of Infants and Toddlers through the Early Childhood Court Team
Presenters: Sherri L. Moore MSW, LCSW, Kimberly A. Mann, Ph.D., L.C.S.W.,
September 24 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm at Champaign Public Library
ILAIMH 2019 Fall Conference
Sensorimotor Approach to Arousal Regulation and Developmental Trauma
Presenters: Sheila M. Frick, OTR/L and Tracy Bjorling, M.S., OTR/L
Date: Friday, October 11, 2019
Location: UIC Forum, 725 W. Roosevelt Road, Chicago, IL 60608
This conference will explore the connections between trauma, sensory integrative difficulties, arousal, affect and self-regulation. Participants will learn how sound and movement are critical in the development of body based, perceptual-motor, and social-emotional foundations for feeling safe in the world and in relationship to another. We will explore the basics of auditory and vestibular/somatosensory processing, and their relationship to arousal, attachment, self-regulation and learning. Video and case presentations will bring key concepts and treatment strategies to life in this theoretically-based, yet practical course.
Registration will open this summer. Stay tuned!
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