Infant-Family Early Childhood Mental Health
California State Endorsement
IFECMH Endorsees in Humboldt County
Advanced Infant-Family and Early Childhood Transdisciplinary Practitioner
Katherine D. Allen (0-5)
Beth Heavilin (0-5)
Transdisciplinary Mental Health Practitioner
Mary Ann Hansen (0-5)
Jennifer Mager (3-5)
Laura J. Power (0-5)
Mental Health Specialist
Julie C. Branson (0-5)
Sheri Graham-Whitt (0-5)
Jeannie Mood Campbell (0-5)
Jessica Montague (0-5)
Melia Brooke Porter (0-5)
Meg A. Walkley (0-5)
Reflective Practice Facilitators I, Reflective Practice Facilitators II & Reflective Practice Mentors
Jeannie Mood Campbell (RPM)
Sheri Graham-Whitt (RPF II)
Mary Ann Hansen (RPF I)
Beth Heavilin (RPF I)
Laura J. Power (RPF I)
Meg A. Walkley (RPM)
The California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health (CA Center for IFECMH) has outlined a framework to provide endorsement to qualified professionals working with infants, children, and families.
The training guidelines and personnel competencies can be found here. The competencies outlined are essential to ensuring a common standard of expertise and education in people working with young children and families. According to the CA Center for IFECMH, these standards have been set after 20 years of investigation across the nation on the skill sets essential for providing quality supports to infants/children and their families.
Categories for Endorsement
- Professionals seeking endorsement as a Transdisciplinary Mental Health Practitioner are working directly with infants and families in some capacity. This category is specially designed for professionals working in any number of different capacities, from human service agencies, health care offices, or educational programs.
- Advanced Transdisciplinary Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioners are those with a master’s degree or higher in a relevant field who have already been endorsed by the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health, having met the criteria for the Transdisciplinary IFECMH Practitioner. To qualify as Advanced Transdisciplinary IFECMH Practitioners, they need to have a minimum of eight years of direct experience with infants and young children, prenatal up to age 5.
- Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialists (IFECMH Specialists) must have a master’s degree or higher and be endorsed by the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health, having met the IFECMH Specialist criteria described in the California Compendium of Training Guidelines, Personnel Competencies, and Professional Endorsement Criteria for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health. In order to qualify as a specialist, they must also have a professional license or credential from a state regulatory agency. IFECMH Specialists come from relevant professional practice disciplines and provide prenatal, infant-family, and early childhood mental health services within their scope of practice and professional ethics in the areas of promotion, prevention and early intervention, and treatment.
- Reflective Practice Facilitators I and II (RPF I and II) are people already endorsed by the California Center for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health who support the reflective practice of providers who work with infants, toddlers, young children, and their families and have also completed an additional set of trainings and competencies that focus on the reflective practice facilitation process outlined in the California Compendium of Training Guidelines, Personnel Competencies, and Professional Endorsement Criteria for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health. A Reflective Practice Facilitator I must first be endorsed as a Transdisciplinary Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioner, Advanced Transdisciplinary Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Practitioner or Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist. A Reflective Practice Facilitator II must currently be endorsed as an Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health Specialist.