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NATIONALCONFERENCE

ForMultidisciplinary practitioners, supervisors, edu-cators, researchers, academics, administrators and policymakers concerned with the care of infants, young children and families

EXPANDING HORIZONS FOR THE EARLY YEARS

Making Relationships Work for Infants and Toddlers

April 14 & 15, 2011with Pre-conference Workshops

April 13, 2011

The Westin Prince Hotel Toronto, ON

REGISTER TODAY AT www.sickkids.ca/imp

EXPANDING HORIZONS FOR THE EARLY YEARS: Making Relationships Work for Infants and Toddlers April 13 - 15, 2011

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AT A GLANCEDay 1 – Thursday April 14, 2011 Day 2 – Friday April 15, 2011

7:30 RegistrationPosters & Exhibits

8:30 Official Welcome 8:30 Welcome8:45 KEYNOTE

J. Douglas Willms, PhD8:45 KEYNOTE

Nicole Latourneau, PhD, R.N.10:00 Break (Posters & Exhibits) 9:45 Break10:30 Concurrent Session Selection A 10:15 Concurrent Session Selection CNoon Lunch (provided)

Posters & Exhibits11:45 Luncheon Presentation

Matthew Melmed(Advance Registration Required - NOT included in conference registration)

1:30 Concurrent Session Selection B 1:15 Concurrent Session Selection D3:00 Break (Posters & Exhibits) 2:30 Break3:30 KEYNOTE

Richard Tremblay, PhD2:45 KEYNOTE

Jean Wittenberg MD, DCP, FRCPC4:45 - 6:30

ReceptionPosters & Exhibits

3:30 Closing Comments

PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPSWednesday April 13, 2011 - 9 am - 4:40 pm

Option A Critical Windows for Infant Mental Health: Merging Neuroscience with Observation, Screening, Development and Program Planning

Option B Serving the Needs of Vulnerable Children: Infant Mental Health & Family Law

Message from the Conference Chair...

On behalf of the Conference Planning Committee I’m pleased to invite you to the Infant Mental Health Promotion’s third national conference: Expanding Horizons for the Early Years – Making Relationships Work for Infants and Tod-dlers. This year we have arranged a superb collection of keynote presenters as well as an array of workshops from first-class clinicians and researchers. Whatever your interest in infant mental health I’m sure you will find quite a number of topics that will inspire you to refresh and revitalize your practice. We have a wonderful new venue at the Westin Prince Hotel – fabulous amenities, and accessible as well! Please join us. I’m sure you’ll find it a rewarding experience.

Jim Howes Expanding Horizons for the Early Years, Conference ChairDirector, Early Intervention Services, Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre

PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS- Wednesday April 13, 2011 -

9 am - 4:30 pm - The Westin Prince Hotel

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Workshop BServing the Needs of Vulnerable

Children: Infant Mental Health and Family Law

Jean Wittenberg, MD, Head, Infant Psychiatry and Co-Chair IMHP, The Hospital for Sick ChildrenBrenda Packard, BSW, Supervisor, Children’s Aid Society To-ronto, & Chair IMHP Family Law InitiativeChaya Kulkarni, BAA, M.Ed, Ed.D, Director, Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP), The Hospital for Sick Children

Infants and toddlers involved with child protection are one of Canada’s most vulnerable populations at risk for poor mental and physical health. Infant maltreatment cases are the most difficult to deal with in court. The inability for this age group to adequately communicate their needs is just one of the many chal-lenges faced. Historically, child protection work has maintained a narrow focus on the physical safety and prevention of cruelty to children (Tomlison, 2001). Today we know the impact of maltreat-ment extends far beyond the physical safety of children into the realm of mental health (Shonkoff, 2009). More recently, research findings have led to a broader focus on the emotional toll and lifelong health implications of early neglect, emotional deprivation and psychological as well as physical abuse (Schonkoff, Boyce, & McEwan, 2009). This preconference session will explore the world surrounding infants and toddlers and how the systems in their lives – the child welfare system, early intervention system and the court system, interact. For many of the professionals involved in such cases (child protection, family lawyers, judges) their work can be positively influenced by an enhanced under-standing of how their actions, recommendations and decisions can impact the mental health of a young child. Throughout this day, presenters will:

• Identify and review the knowledge that practitioners need to have when working with this vulnerable population including topics such as infant mental health and normal development, the impact of maltreatment and trauma, associated changes in brain development, etc. • Examine the way child protection and court systems work together – what works and where can we do better? The results of a national survey aimed at understanding current practices and policies with child protection agencies will be shared with participants. • Describe parenting capacity assessments with infants and young children; how they differ from those with older children; what the practitioner needs to know in order to provide a professional and reliable opinion reports and court. • Explore various screening and assessment tools that could be used with young children while involved with child protections. • Consider how any assessments be used in work with foster families, biological parents and the courts • Discuss alternate models that support the needs of babies and toddlers are involved with child protection and our court system.

Critical Windows for Infant Mental Health: Merging Neuroscience with Observation,

Screening, Development and Program Planning

Jean Clinton, BMus, MD, FRCP(C), McMaster Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neuroscience Hollie Hix-Small, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, School of Child and Youth Care, Ryerson University Mary Rella, B.A., Dip. C.S., Manager of Assessment, Training and Consultation, Thistletown Regional Centre, INTERFACE, Ministry of Children and Youth Services

“Babies are resilient! They won’t remember what happens when they are so young! They will bounce back! When they get to school the system will give them what’s needed to repair any damage!”

The breakthroughs in science now confirm that these statements are myths of generations past. In fact, the relationships and the quality of relationships will profoundly influence a child’s develop-mental trajectory. While they may not recall specific events, over time, repeated neglect and/or trauma has an impact on a child that will last far beyond childhood. This full day session will begin with a brief review of the importance of the attachment relation-ship needed by babies and toddlers and the critical impact of this relationship on a child’s short and long term development. How the quality of this relationship can lead to poor or good physical and mental health in the short and long term course of a child’s life will be discussed highlighting the impact of these relationships and experiences on brain development and consequently the im-pact on a child’s overall development.

Building on this foundation, presenters will explore the tools that are available to help practitioners screen and understand a child’s social, emotional development. A detailed exploration of the Social Emotional Assessment/Evaluation Measure (SEAM) will equip practitioners with the skills they need to screen and create appropriate plans to support a child’s development. Finally, pre-senters will explore how tools such as the SEAM can be used to engage parents in the development of their child.

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The Birth of a Mother: The Importance of Observation and Play in Assessment, Formulation and TreatmentElizabeth Tuters, HEAD, Infant Team & Sally Doulis, Member, Infant Team, Hincks-Dellcrest Institute, Toronto

This presentation will describe a clinical intervention with a mother and a young child from assessment through termination using DVD clips to illustrate the process.

In this Interactive Workshop we will focus on the method of obser-vation as developed by Esther Bick (1964) and its relevance for training mental health professionals in order to alert them to the sig-nificance of locating feelings engendered in the observer/clinician (transference/counter transference). Informed by one’s own emo-tion, the clinician is able to generalize and to know the theoretical concepts to construct a formulation and to devise a treatment plan for intervention. DVD segments will be shown to demonstrate the complexities of working within the infant –parent relationship, and the advantages of an observation team teaching approach.

Relationships and Brain Development in the Early Years: Putting Research into PracticeMia Elfenbaum, Instructor, Early Childhood Education, Red River College of Applied Arts, Science, and Technology, Winnipeg; Jane Bertrand, Professor, Early Childhood Education, School of Early Childhood, George Brown College, Toronto; Zeenat Janmohamed, Coordinator, Atkinson Centre/OISE, Toronto

Young children’s relationships with parents and other caregivers shape brain development and influence life-long health and well-being. This multimedia session will present examples of research (The Science of Early Child Development, 2nd Ed. online resource) affirming the early years as a sensitive period of development. Par-ticipants will see examples of high quality interactions between children and caregivers that illustrate the impact of everyday ex-periences such as nurturing responsive care, meaningful play op-portunities and appropriate language stimulation. There will be an opportunity to reflect on one’s own practice and to discuss how to share this information with colleagues and parents to support healthy relationships for young children.

8:45 New Approaches to Assessing Early Child Development Keynote Successful Transitions: Possibilities for Prevention, Intervention and Inclusion J. Douglas Willms, PhD

Canada Research Chair in Literacy and Human Development; Director, Canadian Research Institute for Social Policy, University of New Brunswick

Research on early child development has been successful in identifying the risk and protective factors associated with childhood vulnerability and how demographic risk factors, such as poverty and low parental education, interact with family practices in their effects on children’s developmental outcomes. However, we know relatively little about when and where to intervene, how best to intervene, or how to grow successful interventions to scale. In this talk, Dr. Willms will indentify eight types of interventions aimed at improving the chances of children making successful tran-sitions at each stage of development. Recent findings from Canada’s National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth and the Early Years Evaluation will be used to provide a schema for prevention, intervention and inclusion that integrates recent research on the measurement of childhood outcomes, children’s developmental trajectories, and the geographic distribution of childhood vulnerability.

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8:30 Official Welcome

Promoting Secure Attachment with High-Risk, Young-Parent Families

Victoria Green, Clinical Lead; Carolyne Normande, Parenting Counsellor; Julia Maddocks, Support Counsellor, Brighter Futures For Children Of Young Parents; Kelly White; Natasha So, St. Mary’s Home, Ottawa

To be effective in working with high-risk, young-parent families, the St. Mary’s Home Infant Mental Health Team has developed strat-egies and adapted interventions that promote secure attachment with this challenging population. This workshop will focus on com-munity interventions and strategies that can be used by all front-line service providers, including using a proactive vs. reactive ap-proach to intervention, support from external community agencies, and consistency in applying the same strategies that caregivers are encouraged to use in their interactions with their children. An ad-aptation of Modified Interaction Guidance to this population based on experiences in recruiting, retaining, and engaging clients will be presented. The presentation will also explore implications for clinical practice and the roles of practitioners in promoting secure attachment.

Integrative Approaches in Response to Child Maltreatment

Kathy Moran, Protection Manager & Helen Belanger, Enhanced Parenting Specialist, Simcoe County Children’s Aid Society; Dr. Mirek Lojkasek, Psychologist, Private Practice, Lecturer, Dept. of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto A change in child welfare practice has been mandated in the Trans-formation Agenda. As the field embraces customized service, evi-denced informed programming and transparency, the application of theoretical frameworks is forming the link between research and practice. At SCCAS, Attachment Theory is being adopted as the basis for a shift in thinking about child maltreatment and is becom-ing integral to child protection assessments particularly in the 0 to 3 year population. Additional programming interventions are being woven into the emphasis on relationships, sensitivity and the infant/child as situated within the larger circle of family and community. Programs such as Watch, Wait and Wonder and our clinical super-vision framework supports customized, clinical work, as well as the agency’s sustainability plan to meet the challenges of this new way of working with young children living in high risk family situations.

Evaluating Treatments for Substance- Using Women: A Focus on Relationships

Mary Motz, Clinical Psychologist; Stacey Espinet, Postdoctoral Fellow, Mothercraft Early Intervention Department/Breaking the Cycle, Toronto; Debra Pepler, Professor, Department of Psychol-ogy, York University, Toronto

Over fifteen years of Mothercraft’s Breaking the Cycle program evaluation data points to its success in engaging and supporting pregnant and parenting substance-using women, a previously un-reachable high-risk group. These mothers live in contexts of perva-sive risks such as poverty, inadequate nutrition, unstable housing, inadequate health care, abusive relationships, low social support, and drug and sex trade involvement. This lays the foundation for inter-generational cycles of poverty, trauma, abuse, substance use and psychopathology. This presentation will examine the unique features and effectiveness of BTC program in engaging and sup-porting substance-using women who are pregnant or parenting.

The Experience of Being a Father: Early Contacts and Communications Between Father and Baby During Pregnancy

Florence Vinit, Professeur, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal

The father’s place in accompanying pregnancy and childbirth has increased considerably in Western societies in the last fifty years. The father is involved during the time of birth through the way of welcoming the baby, the cut of the umbilical cord or the approach of “skin to skin”. In contrast, ways in which to give an active role to the father during the pregnancy, are more rare (haptonomy, Bonapace method etc..) This paper will present a literature review of the dif-ferent forms of involvement taken by the father figure during preg-nancy and childbirth. We will then discuss a phenomenology of the way that contact has been established from the announcement of the pregnancy until the birth of the child.

Promoting Resilience, Addressing Needs and Building Relationships: Infant Mental Health Intervention and Research with First Nations Communities

Yvonne Bohr, Associate Professor York University, Head; Leigh Armour, Child and Family Therapist, Infant Child Treatment Team, Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre, Scarborough; Pam Nolan, Manager of Health and Social Services, Naan-Doo-We’An Wigwam Health Centre/ Garden River Wellness Centre, Garden River First Nations (FN) infants and young children are under-served in Canada. Beyond disproportionate rates of infant mortality, adoles-cent parenthood, and child welfare involvement, there are numer-ous challenges faced by FN communities that can have a signifi-cant impact on the social emotional development of infants. The history of oppression and trauma that marks FN families, may af-fect the intergenerational transmission of attachment and the so-cio-economic hardships faced by many communities may shape parent health and parent-child interactions. Cultural and historic context, and traditional values and practices need to be taken into consideration so that interventions can fit and “belong” to the com-munities that need to implement them. This workshop will describe a collaboration between Garden River and a team of infant men-tal health clinicians and researchers: opportunities and challenges provided by this partnership, lessons learned and recommenda-tions to others interested in such an alliance.

On Track: Supporting Healthy Relation- ships and Healthy Development Through EarlyIdentificationandCommunity Intervention

Hiltrud Dawson, Health Promotion Consultant, Best Start Re-source Centre, c/o Health Nexus, Toronto & Ruth Doherty, Co-ordinator, Early Words: Hamilton Preschool Speech and Language Services, Early Childhood Vision Support Services: Centre South Blind-Low Vision Intervention Program, Hamilton, ON

Optimal healthy child development is the goal of all practitioners working with children from 0 - 6 years. Service providers have the challenging task of supporting children’s development to reach their best potential, while seeking to identify factors that may put a child at risk for difficulties and developmental delays. This

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Culture-SpecificIssuesinInfantMental Health: Parent-Infant Separations in Trans- national Families

Leigh Armour, Child and Family Therapist, Infant Child Treatment Team, Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre & Yvonne Bohr, Associate Professor York University, Head, Infant Child Treatment Team, Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre, Toronto

Little attention has been paid to the effects of a rapidly globalizing world on infants, even though some features of globalization may have a significant impact on young children’s wellbeing. Disrup-tions in attachment relationships occur in many Canadian transna-tional families when infants are separated from their parents and cared for by geographically distant relatives for a prolonged period of time. Such separations can have an adverse effect on attach-ment, the psychological development of children, and the adjust-ment of parents. This presentation will introduce a new model for understanding the diverse developmental pathways of infants in global and transcultural contexts, and address clinical and policy implications to better support families in these contexts.

Developing Treatment Plans for Infants in Foster Care

Mary Rella, Manager of Assessment, Training and ConsultationThistletown Regional Centre, INTERFACE, Ministry of Children and Youth Services, Toronto

The presentation will focus on caregiving interventions provided to foster parents regarding infants and children who have been placed in the society’s care following an apprehension and/or tem-porary care agreement. Treatment Plans for Infants and Children in Foster Care Project is focused on attending to the individualized special needs of the infant/child, taking into account the history of caregiving environment, experiences in their original primary re-lationship, identification of arousal patterns/emotional regulation, and identification of corrective caregiving behaviours that would promote a corrective emotional experience. The overall goal is to strengthen the infant/child’s potential to form future adaptive rela-tionships by providing the infant/child with a secure base relation-ship and a regulating caregiver for the purpose of an emotional corrective experience of co-regulation.

Exploring the Role of Cumulative Risk and the Mother-Child Relationship in the Neurobehavioural Functioning of High Risk Infants and Toddlers


The mother-child relationship is integral to fostering healthy child development and more research is needed to establish how the mother-child relationship impacts various developmental domains. Literature on cumulative risk outcomes has identified the impor-tance of the cumulative occurrence of different types of risk on child cognitive and social-emotional outcomes (Liaw & Brooks-Gunn, 1994; Rutter, 2000, and others). The presentation will examine: (1) Whether there is a difference in neurobehavioral functioning between children in an early intervention program with and with-out prenatal alcohol exposure; (2) Whether there are associations between mother-child relationship functionality, pre- and post-na-tal (cumulative) risk, and neurobehavioral development; and (3) Whether mother-child relationship functionality mediates the re-lationship between cumulative risk and neurobehavioral develop-ment.

Caring for the Military Child: Tools for Coping with Separation and Stress

Linda Scott, Program Manager, Esquimalt Military Family Re-source Centre, Victoria, BC & Raymond A. McInnis, CWO (ret’d), Director, Military Family Services, National Defence (Canada), Ottawa, ON

Military children experience stress as their parents deploy to long and dangerous operations. Families must cope with work related separation, traumatic events, and operational stress. When the family is reunited, everyone is challenged with reintegration into daily life. Families live far from the support of extended family, and must constantly re-establish themselves in new communities. These unique stressors in a child’s early years increase vulnerabil-ity to problems with attachment and anxiety. The Canadian Forces Military Family Service Program’s vision of capable and resilient military families provides a guiding philosophy for Military

Sharman Word Dennis, CEO, Global Enrichment Solutions, LLC, Washington, DC

This workshop will present information on how to look at the family of a child with special needs from an ecological perspective. This will help determine what systems are available to furnish help to the family and the child. Once such detailed information is available, a system of support information and services can be mapped and made available, and an advocate can develop a practical plan to navigate the systems of care. This workshop will utilize a didactic and hands on approach and participants will be taught to develop an ecomap of their individual families.

workshop will highlight a new reference guide to support healthy development in all children, identify risks, and promote early inter-vention though local services. Special attention will be given to the social development of the child and the collaborative approach of families and service providers to support optimal development. Navigating the Systems to Meet the Needs of the Child With Special Needs and Their Family

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parenting, and promote secure parent-child attachment, which is known to be related to numerous positive developmental outcomes for children. In this presentation, we will provide an overview of Baby Steps to Attachment and introduce key strategies and materi-als that are part of the intervention. We will also describe the suc-cesses and challenges encountered by two community agencies during implementation of the enhancement into their home visita-tion practice. Incorporating this intervention into other home visita-tion or parenting programs will also be discussed.

Understanding the Role of Attachment within the Context of Infant Pain

Dr. Greg Moran, Professor (Tenured), Psychology, The of Univer-sity Western Ontario, London; Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell, CIHR New Investigator in Pain, Associate Professor (Tenured), Psychol-ogy, York University, Associate Scientist, The O.U.C.H. Laboratory, York University, Toronto, Psychiatry, The Hospital for Sick Children; Rachel Horton, Doctoral Student; Jessica Hillgrove-Stuart, Doctoral Student, Clinical-Developmental Area, Psychology, The O.U.C.H. Laboratory, York University, Toronto

Attachment theory (Bowlby, 1969) posits that the caregiver-infant relationship is at the centre of the infant’s ability to regulate distress. Distress from pain has been identified as one of the key triggers of the attachment system. Not only is the infant more sensitive to pain-ful stimuli, infants are limited in their abilities to manage distress and are completely reliant on their caregivers to assess and man-age their pain. Painful medical procedures represent a naturalistic context for exploring the infant-caregiver attachment relationship over the first year of life and its association with infants’ regulatory capacities for painful experiences. After an orientation to the area of infant attachment and its role in painful medical procedures, data from two parts of an ongoing longitudinal study exploring infant at-tachment and pain will be presented, as well as recommendations for the care of infants in pain.

Infant Mental Health in a Hospital Clinic for Teen Mothers

Dr. Jean Wittenberg, Head, Infant Psychiatry Program; Gillian Thompson, Nurse Practitioner Paediatrics, Adolescent Medicine; Gillian Liberman, Social Worker, Young Families Program, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

The Young Families Program is a multidisciplinary clinic that pro-vides health services to adolescent mothers and their babies. Both mothers and babies are patients of this tertiary care academic hos-pital setting. We present a review of the clinic population and dis-cuss: Priorities and challenges faced in delivering basic healthcare for mothers and babies; approaches to fostering mental health for mothers and babies in this vulnerable population; and ethical and legal issues of child/youth protection for both babies and mothers. Approaches to fostering mental health for mothers and babies are informed by developmental findings for the infancy and adolescent age groups, by the principles of supportive psychotherapy and by adaptation of interventions such as Supporting Security to the clinic setting.

Family Resource Centres across the country. This presentation will look at the possible effects of risk factors such as deployment and operational stress and the innovative prevention and intervention programs and tools designed to support young children from mili-tary families.

Handle with Care: Strategies for Promoting the Mental Health of Young Children in Community-Based Child Care

Dr. Nancy Cohen, Project Coordinator; Heidi Kiefer, Project Co-ordinator; Bonnie Pape, Independent Consultant, Hincks Dellcrest Institute, Toronto

Handle with Care is a training package intended to provide early childhood educators and other practitioners with underlying prin-ciples and practical strategies for promoting the mental health of children 0 to 6 years. It helps to understand how developmental, family and community factors play out in children’s lives and pro-vides practical tools for ensuring that mental health promotion is incorporated in daily routines and activities. In this presentation, background for the training will be described and components of training demonstrated. Results of a study of the impact of Handle with Care training on practitioners’ knowledge and practice also will be summarized.

Super Dads Super Kids: Discovering An Innovative and Interactive Program for Fathers and their Children

Brian Russell, Provincial Coordinator, Father Involvement Initia-tive – Ontario Network, Toronto

The Super Dads Super Kids Program (SDSK) is an interactive pro-gram for fathers and their children. Fathers have indicated that they are looking for opportunities to spend more time with their chil-dren AND for pertinent information about parenting. This feedback meshed the twin needs for fathers engaging their children on a relational level while continuing to develop their skills and knowl-edge around parenting. This workshop will give an overview of the importance of father involvement, highlight the value of father/child activity programs, provide a summary of the 8 sessions in the SDSK program and interactive online version for fathers, and offer an opportunity to experience pieces of the program.

Baby Steps to Attachment: An Enhancement for Existing Home Visitation or Parenting Programs

Berna J. Skrypnek, Associate Professor; Karen Cook, Registered Psychologist, PhD student/Research Assistant; Nicolette Sopcak, PhD student/Research Assistant, University of Alberta, Edmonton

Baby Steps to Attachment is a ten session intervention designed as an enhancement for existing home visitation or parenting programs serving parents of infants. The sessions are designed to foster pa-rental reflective functioning, increase sensitive and responsive


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3:30 Prevention of Mental Illness: Why Not Start at the Beginning? Keynote Development and Prevention of Behaviour Problems

Richard E. Tremblay, PhD Canada Research Chair in Child Development; Director, Centre of Excellence for Early Childhood Development; Professor of Psychology, University of Montreal Two theoretical models had strongly influenced research on disruptive behaviour problems: social learning and dis-ease onset. According to these developmental perspectives, children learn disruptive behaviours (DB) from their environment and onset of the disease is triggered by accumulated exposition to disruptive models in the environment, including the media. Most of the evidence came from studies of school age children and adolescents.Longitudinal studies tracing developmental trajectories of DB from early childhood onwards suggest an inversed developmental process. DB are universal during early childhood. With age, children learn socially acceptable behav-iours from interactions with their environment. The mechanisms that lead to deficits in using socially accepted behav-iours are strongly intergenerational, based on complex genetic and environmental contributions, including epigenetic mechanisms. Prevention of these deficits requires early, intensive and long-term support to parents and child. Newly discovered epigenetic mechanisms suggest that intensive perinatal interventions will have impacts on numerous as-pects of physical and mental health, including DB.

4:45 – 6:30 Poster Presentation - Cash Bar Reception/ Networking

Poster Presenters

Marketplace Exhibitors will include: The Centre of Excellence on Early Childhood Development, York University Division of Continuing Education, Brookes Publishing, Wintergreen Learning Materials, Parentbooks, the Father Involvement Initiative - Ontario Network, Attachment Association of Canada, Best Start/ Health Nexus, About Kids Health... and more!

Promoting the Mental Health of Young Children: Policy Innovation Through PartnershipNicole Swant, Children and Youth, Mental Health Lead – BC Region, Public Health Agency of Canada, Vancouver

Adolescent Breastfeeding Experiences: A Qualitative Research StudyKaren Campbell, Durham Region Health Department, Whitby

Handle With Care: Evaluation of a Mental Health Promotion Training Program for Child Care PractitionersDr. Nancy Cohen; Heidi Kiefer; Bonnie Pape, Hincks Dellcrest Institute, Toronto

Evaluation of the Behaviour 101 WorkshopBrittany Hall, Child, Youth and Family Program, University of Guelph, Guelph & Natalie Dorosh, Family Community Behav-ioural Services, Halton Region

From Best Practices to Standards: Every Child Has the RightEllen Boychyn; Lorna Montgomery; Wendy Perry; Cathie Smith & Roxanne Young, The Ontario Association of Infant and Child Development (OAICD)

More than a Haircut: The Barbershop ProjectSusan Gowans, Macaulay Child Development Centre, Toronto

Knowledge Mobilization: Using the Early Development Instrument to Empower CommunitiesNikita Desai & Jean Varghese, Mothercraft, Toronto

TheInfluenceofAcculturationontheParentingBeliefsandPractices of Chinese Canadian Immigrant MothersJessica Lynn Chan, Clinical Developmental Psychology, York University

Family Resilience & Building Resilience in Families Where a Family has Prader Willi SyndromeCatherine Sondergaard & Liv Elliott, Infant and Child Develop-ment Services Peel, Prader Willi Syndrome Providers Network

Providing the Right Service at the Right Time to Improve Access to Infant and Child Development Services Dorothy McLaughlin, Ellen Boychyn, Roxanne Young, Lorna Montgomery, Judi Neufeld, Elizabeth VanRyn, Dr. Virginia Frisk, Pamela Martindale, The Ontario Association of Infant and Child Development (OAICD)

Wings for Melanie: A Story of Parent, Child and Professional Partnerships

Beth Harry, Professor and Chair, Department of Teaching and Learning, School of Education, University of Miami, Florida & Barb Mackay Ward, Director of Operations, First Three Years, Toronto

Reading excerpts from her memoir Melanie, Bird with a Broken Wing, Beth will highlight the sensitive challenges involved in learning to become a mother to an intensely fragile yet spiritually resilient infant with cerebral palsy. This presentation will highlight the complex emotions that parents experience as they adjust to life with a child who has special needs, as well as the practical and emotional aspects of supporting a child with feeding difficul-ties, vision impairment, and limited motor skills. Professionals have power to either support or undermine parental hopes and strengths. A practical framework for strengthening the parent-in-fant relationship for families coping with complex health issues will be presented, as well as the implications of adult attachment in relation to parents coping and caring for a child with a disability.

Promoting Positive Parent/Child Relationships – Building on the Strengths of the Family

Ruth Sischy, Manager and Policy Advisor, Parenting and Family Literacy Centers, Toronto District School Board, Toronto & Sandy Giles, Coordinator of Parenting and Family Literacy Centers, York Region District School Board, Newmarket, ON

Parenting and Family Literacy Centres lay the foundation for healthy early childhood development by supporting the critical relationship between the parent/caregiver of the child. The play-based programs promote positive parent-child interaction and support the health and well being of the whole child through the materials, the information and the role modeling that is available. This workshop will explore the nature of these relationships and will offer strategies to provide an inclusive program that builds on the strength of the family and sets the stage for parent engage-ment in diverse and multi-cultural communities. The session will also present research that demonstrates the many ways in which this evidence-based program has improved academic outcomes for children in vulnerable, culturally diverse communities, and strategies that build home school partnership.


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8:45 Relationship Risks and Infant Mental Health PromotionKeynote

Nicole Letourneau PhD RN Canada Research Chair in Healthy Child Development; Child Health Intervention and Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Studies Program, Faculty of Nursing, University of New Brunswick

Parental mental health problems, addictions to substances, and family violence are stressors that are considered to be toxic to infants’ health and development. These stressors act via alterations in parent- (usually mother-) infant interaction quality and infant attachment that have been linked to changes in infants’ neuroendocrine function, cardio-vascular reactivity and epigenetic expression and an increased incidence of immunologic disease and various mental health and behavioural problems. Thus, research will be reviewed that demonstrates relationships between parent-in-fant interaction/attachment behaviours and:• Cortisol patterns,• Vagal reactivity,• Asthmatic disease, and• Self-regulatory disorders. This review will provide guidance for relationship-focused interventions that may be tailored to address the effects of stressors that are toxic to infants and children’s development. Moreover, relationship-focused interventions that may have concurrent effects on reducing the toxic stressor, by for example, reducing maternal symptoms of depression, will be discussed.

The Prenatal Origins of Attachment and Health

Myrna Martin, Director, Kutenai Institute of Integral Therapies, Nelson, BC

Many practitioners and parents are aware of the positive patterns that can come from having good prenatal care during this early pe-riod. However, there can be difficult patterns associated with this time, especially those that arise from experiences such as a highly stressful pregnancy, previous pregnancy loss, surgical or chemical interventions during birth, prematurity and NICU experiences, and other difficulties in the postnatal period. Researchers and practi-tioners in medicine, cellular biology, neuroscience, child develop-ment, psychotherapy and others are now forming an interdisciplin-ary approach to work with these early patterns. New research from the science of epigenetics (how the environment influences the ge-nome) and prenatal attachment will be delineated. Evidence based clinical approaches that can support healthy prenatal and neonatal attachment and protect against unhealthy epigenetic influences will be outlined.

Why Adoption in Ontario is Failing Our Children

Dawn Flegel, Director of Service & Deborah Ellison, Quality As-surance Consultant, Family and Children Services of St. Thomas and Elgin, St. Thomas, ON

Attachment theory strongly argues the importance of the early es-tablishment of attachment relationships in order for children to de-velop healthy interpersonal relationships later in life. Yet, despite extensive knowledge in this area, young children who come into care and are later adopted often experience several moves that serve to disrupt the development of attachment relationships. We propose that the current adoption philosophy in the Province of On-tario that encourages the temporary placement of children prior to placement in their permanent adoptive homes does not serve the needs of children well. This workshop describes the development, evolution, and evaluation of an effective, child-centred, alternative service system with the goal of providing each child with long term stability, security, and continuity within a family setting: the Foster to Adopt Model in Elgin County.

Public Health Nurses Engage in ReflectivePractice:Leadinginthe FaceofSignificantChallenge

Judy Wong, Healthy Families- High Risk Consultant, Toronto Pub-lic Health, Toronto

Healthy Babies Healthy Children offers high risk home visiting by public health nurses (PHNs) and Family Home Visitors to support pregnant women and families with children up to age six. PHN’s autonomous practice, along with families’ complex issues and the intense nature of home visiting, often leave PHNs open to challeng-ing situations. Our organization created the High Risk Consultant (HRC) role to provide PHNs with peer support and promote prac-tice excellence by creating a safe, non-judgmental environment and using strengths and relationship based approaches to engage PHNs in guided reflection. This presentation will outline the guided reflective process used by HRCs to engage staff and provide peer support, the successes and challenges experienced in using the process, and strategies that other organizations may effectively ap-ply.

The Development and Evaluation of a Blended Prenatal and Parent Education Program for First-Time Parents

Palmina Ioanone, Research Associate, The Hincks-Dellcrest Cen-tre, Toronto & Karon Foster, Lead of The Parenting Partnership, Phoenix Centre for Children and Families, Pembroke, ON

Research shows that parents feel parenting is the most important job they will do; yet they do not have the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to be the parent they want to be (Willms, 2002). Invest in Kids developed a comprehensive prenatal and parenting education program -The Parenting Partnership™ (TPP) to ensure the best possible start for children by transforming the way we pre-pare and educate first-time parents. This unique program begins in pregnancy and continues until babies are 14 months. This presen-tation will describe the rationale for this program; the program de-sign and content; the engagement of parents with both the on-line and FF components; and the challenges and lessons learned.

Heart to Heart: A Nurturing Programme for Multi-Risk Mothers and Babies

Leslie Allan, Executive Director; Allie MacDonald, Educator; Vicki Hetherington, Educator, Early Intervention Saint John Inc., Saint John, NB

Heart to Heart is a group nurturing programme developed and extended from Parents as Partners (PIPE) materials specifically to support multi-risk mothers and babies. The programme seeks to encourage engaging and warm maternal sensitivities toward strengthening and building strong, healthy emotional bonds and development. The content ranges through a variety of important threads including: baby as a unique person with capabilities; listen-ing to and reading baby’s cues; recognizing and naming ranges of emotions; basic understanding of attachment; baby’s tempera-ment; valuing the many types of play; infant massage and the emo-tional connection; managing stress; and the importance of time for self-care. Uniquely, the programme seeks to nurture the mothers in a parallel process of care and trust.

Exploring the Emotional Quality of the Relationship Between Substance-Using Mothers and their Infants and Very Young Children


The emotion and behaviour regulation capacities of infants develop in the context of their relationships with primary caregivers (Tronick 1989). Using a sample of high-risk mother-infant dyads from Moth-ercraft’s Breaking the Cycle (BTC), we assessed the quality of the mother child relationship using coded videotaped free play mother-child interactions, clinical case reviews, and ratings of maternal perceptions of the mother-child relationship. The objectives of the study are: (1) to describe the quality of the mother-child relation-ship in BTC families; and (2) to compare the use of observational measures, file review data, and maternal questionnaire reports in assessing the emotional quality of the mother-child relationship in BTC families. Videotapes of mother-infant dyads will be used to highlight the results of this study.


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Coordinated Access: An Integrated Systems Approach to Address the Complex Needs of Young Children

Maureen McDonald, Director of Early Child Development Pro-grams & Devon Physick, CITYKIDS Service Navigator Team Leader, Mothercraft, Toronto

CITYKIDS is city-wide program designed to coordinate and in-crease access to support services for children with extra support needs. Through coordinated intake, CITYKIDS offers a single-point access to specialized early childhood services and ensures that children are directed to appropriate services that meet their unique needs. Through a review of statistical evidence of program outcomes this presentation aims to provide insight into how effec-tive CITYKIDS is in enhancing service coordination and access to services. Additionally, presenters will review the development of multidisciplinary programs which were created in response to the waitlists for services within the city of Toronto.

To this end, these findings and program model descriptions can inform practitioners, educators and researchers in the field of early learning and care as well as different levels of government on how the models can be further improved to optimize service efficiency.

Supporting Parent-Infant Attachment in Peel using a Collaborative ApproachPenny Davies, Supervisor, Children’s Services, Regional Munici-pality of Peel, Brampton & Natasha Lisus, Clinical Supervisor, Preschool Services, Peel Children’s Centre, Mississauga, ON

The Valley Infant-Parent Program (VIPP) in Peel Region has de-veloped a flexible, family-centred, strength-based, interdisciplinary model for supporting secure attachment relationships in families facing a variety of significant and complex challenges including dis-ability, adoption, trauma, mental illness, and isolation. This presen-tation will take participants through the five-year process leading to the current model of service and highlight some of the challenges and successes along the way. Presenters from each agency will discuss how issues such as privacy, different regulatory bodies, intake and referral processes and different approaches to program development and delivery were addressed during the program’s evolution without losing sight of our shared objective: to help foster healthy and responsive relationships between caregivers and their infants.

Safe Sleep – Why is it so complicated? A Child Welfare Perspective

Lisa Saunders, Nurse Coordinator Health Specialist Program & Jennifer Miles, Health Specialist, Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto, Toronto

The Ontario Coroner’s Paediatric Death Report (2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010) has identified unsafe sleep environment as a contribut-ing factor in a number of deaths of Ontario infants. This


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Early Experiences Matter: Becoming a Big Voice for Babies Matthew Melmed

Executive Director, ZERO TO THREE, USA Zero to Three was founded by T. Berry Brazelton and other leading clinicians nearly 30 years ago. Today the organi-zation is led by leading experts in the fields of early childhood education and development, infant mental health, neu-roscience, and maternal child health from across the United States. During this special lunch Matthew will highlight the journey of Zero to Three from its infancy and describe the milestones that enabled them to become a big voice for babies and toddlers influencing governments at all levels and ultimately policies, practices, and research agendas at community and national levels aimed at meeting the needs of babies and toddlers. He will share lessons learned and highlight the opportunities for such a voice in Canada through each of us in our roles with babies and toddlers.

11:45 LUNCHEON PRESENTATION Advance REGISTRATION Required Otherwise on your own Capacity is limited

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workshop will include a brief review of research related to infant sleep practices, attachment and SIDS/SUDI prevention, and an overview of The Catholic Children’s Aid Society of Toronto’s April, 2010 comprehensive safe sleep campaign. Interventions related to promoting safer sleep environments while respecting/incorporating caregivers’ cultural beliefs, circumstances and additional risk fac-tors will be discussed. Participants will be able to implement strate-gies to assist and support parents to provide their infants with the safest sleep environment possible while promoting infant-caregiver relationships.

Learning Through Play Program: Outcome Evaluation of an Early Childhood Development Training Program for Mothers

Dr. Nancy Cohen, Director of Research; Miriam Reesor, Manager; Alfredo Tinajero, Research Associate; Fataneh Farnia, Research Fellow, Learning Through Play International Program, Hincks-Dell-crest Centre – Gail Appel Institute, Toronto

Learning Through Play is a low literacy program for parents de-signed to improve the health and well-being of children and their long-term mental health and development. This presentation will begin with a brief review of Learning Through Play low-literacy pictorial resources and methodology, program design and imple-mentation, and its application in Canadian communities and inter-nationally. The focus will be on research findings on the outcomes of this program. Results have shown a significant increase in moth-ers’ knowledge and positive attitudes towards their infants’ devel-opment, as well as significant reduction in symptoms of mental distress in the mothers’ reduction in use of physical punishment of children and improved relationships in the family as a whole.

More than a Haircut: The Barbershop Project

Susan Gowans, Program Supervisor, Macaulay Child Develop-ment Centre, Toronto

In 2006 Macaulay Child Development Centre and community part-ners hosted a Black History Month event in a local barbershop that focused on the role of Black fathers. This was the beginning of More than a Haircut, an innovative, culturally specific father involve-ment program, informed by community development, anti-oppres-sion and child development theory and practice. The primary goals of the project are to: enhance the positive involvement of African Canadian fathers and father figures in the lives of their children; increase the capacity of barbershops as a community resource for fathers. Discussion of The Program Model: What Makes it Work? will describe the participatory research process and Barbershop Project outcomes.

Nursing Interventions to Support Homeless Pregnant Women: Lessons from the Homeless At-Risk Prenatal Program

Alice Gorman, HARP Acting Manager Healthy Families; Catriona Mill, Health Promotion Consultant; Cheryl Dillon; Mandy Tomlin-son, HARP, Toronto Public Health, Toronto

Homeless pregnant women present with complex health and social needs which increase risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes. Many clients have mental health or cognitive issues; as such, stability and access to optimal prenatal care can be challenging. In 2007, Toronto Public Health implemented the Homeless At-Risk Prenatal (HARP) program in an effort to contribute to improved maternal and infant health outcomes.

This presentation will provide an overview of HARP services, a pro-file of the clients served, interventions used by HARP Public Health Nurses, and strategies to enhance outcomes for pregnant home-less women and their babies. Components of the overall approach to service, including relationship- building and intensive follow-up with marginalized clients, and maintaining strong community part-nerships will also be discussed. Insights that will be presented were informed by a formative evaluation of HARP nursing services.

The Feasibility and Acceptability of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program in Ontario

Dr. Susan Jack, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, McMaster University, Hamilton & Debbie Sheehan, Director, Family Health Division, City of Hamilton Public Health Services, Dundas, ON

The Nurse-Family Partnership (NFP) is a home visitation program delivered to first-time, low-income, young mothers. Nurses visit families starting early in pregnancy and until the child is 2 years. In the US, the NFP has demonstrated consistent and enduring mater-nal-child outcomes in three randomized controlled trials. In 2008, the first Canadian NFP pilot was implemented in Hamilton, Ontario. The NFP provides nurses with an evidence-based, structured ap-proach to home visiting. Community professionals have identified that the NFP addresses a current service gap in providing profes-sional preventive health care to high-risk families, particularly dur-ing pregnancy. Clients and families identified nurses as important sources of support and expert professional knowledge.

Infant Pain-Related Distress Regul ation: Sharpening our Understanding of Infant Expression, Parental Sensitivity and Soothing Behaviours in a Painful Context

Dr. Rebecca Pillai Riddell, Assistant Professor; Sara Ahola Ko-hut, Doctoral Student; Laila Din Osmun, Doctoral Student; Nicole Racine, Doctoral Student, Clinical-Developmental Area, Psychol-ogy, York University, The O.U.C.H. Laboratory, Toronto

Researchers have hypothesized that the capacity to regulate nega-tive emotional states is an imperative skill in developing emotional competence and adaptive social behaviour. As the foundations for emotion regulation are laid during infancy, it is important to under-stand how infants develop the ability to express and regulate their own negative emotions. Observing infants undergoing painful pro-cedures during their first year of life provides a unique framework in which one may observe the arousal of negative affect, how par-ent-infant dyads function to regulate that emotion, and how these factors change over time. This talk aims to investigate the devel-opment of infant facial expressions of negative emotions during a painful context, the roles of caregiver emotional availability and how we can best observe caregiver behaviours during a painful context.

Me, My Baby, Our World Parenting Group – Designed for Adolescent Parents

Cathy Sorichetti, Senior Clinician & Lisl McGuigan, Manager, Child Development Centre, Rosalie Hall Young Parent Resource Centre, Scarborough, ON

The Me My Baby Our World (MMBOW) Parenting group is a 12 week program, developed at Rosalie Hall, specifically for young parents “at risk” 13- 25 and their children 0-18 months. The pur-pose of the group is to enrich the relationship between young par-ents and their children by increasing parent responsiveness and confidence, leading to best possible infant metal health outcomes. The presentation will focus on the components of MMBOW includ-ing: population risk factors, program development history, group goals and delivery, and research and evaluation tools. Use of a facilitor’s guide and training experience with other Young Parent Resource Centres (YPRC’s) will highlight the knowledge transfer process and feedback from agencies delivering MMBOW.


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2:45 Supporting Security: Issues in Developing and Disseminating a Preventive Keynote Intervention for Early Parent-Child Relationships

Jean Wittenberg MD, DCP, FRCPC Head, Infant Psychiatry, The Hosptial for Sick Children

Supporting Security is a preventive intervention for groups of parents and babies focused on the attachment relation-ship between caregivers and infants up to the age of one year. It incorporates aspects of evidence-based interven-tions including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, parent training, problem solving and mindfulness therapies. It is designed to be delivered to at-risk populations in different cultures by healthcare workers such as public health nurses from the local community. This presentation describes the manner in which evidence-based therapies can be adapted for implementation by relatively inexperienced personnel. It also discusses issues that arise in the process of bringing an intervention to a different culture, in this case bringing Supporting Security to First Nation communities in northern Ontario.

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3:30 Closing Ceremonies

4:00 Adjournment

CONCURRENT SESSIONS - TOPICS AT A GLANCE

Parent-Infant Relationships

Innovative Prevention and Early Intervention

Innovative Parenting Programs

Interagency/ Interdisci-plinary Collaboration

Research/ Program Evaluation

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Culturally Responsive Practice

Maternal Mental Health/ Trauma

Child Protection/ Legal Issues

Health Care/ Safety/ Health Promotion

Infant Trauma and Maltreatment

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Father Involvement Promoting Development Child Disability/ Disorders/ Illness

Adolescent Parenting Reflective Practice and Supervision

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The newly renovated Westin Prince, Toronto, features the unique combination of resting on 15 acres of magnificent parkland while maintaining easy access to all Toronto has to offer. The Westin Prince offers the atmosphere and facilities of a resort property with the convenience of a city hotel. Guests can enjoy the complimentary health club, beautiful outdoor seasonal pool, tennis, a putting green and wooded walking paths. All Westin Hotels & Resorts are smoke – free environments.

We are pleased to confirm the following special group rates (+ applicable taxes and fees).Room Type: Traditional King, Queen or Double Occupancy: Single$159 Double $159 Triple $179 Quad $199

When calling in to the Reservations Department, please ensure that you specify Infant Mental Health when reserving to access group rates. Guests can contact reservations Toll Free at 1-888-627-8550 (Canada and US). Individual reservations must be guar-anteed with a credit card or advance deposit. Please note that all guests will be required to present a credit card upon check-in at the Hotel. The “cut-off date” for accepting reservations into this room block is March 13, 2011. Any additional reservations requests received after 5:00 p.m. local time at the Hotel on the cut-off date will be accepted on a space and rate availability basis.

The Westin Prince 900 York Mills Road Toronto, ON M3B 3H2 CanadaToll Free: 1-888-627-8550 (Canada & US)Phone: (416) 444-2511

The Westin Prince is located in Toronto just South of the 401, and West of the Don Valley Parkway at York Mills Rd. and Don Mills Rd. and is easily accessible by car or by 24 hour Toronto Transit (TTC) (321 York Mills bus from York Mills Subway Station, or 25/ 303 Don Mills bus from Pape Subway Station).

For further information on the hotel, driving directions and nearby amenities visit: www.westin.com/prince


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It is recommended that you do not make travel or hotel reservations that cannot be changed or cancelled without penalty until you re-ceive your confirmation. Costs incurred are the responsibility of the individual. IMHP cannot be held responsible for expenses incurred by an individual who is not confirmed and for whom space is not available at the conference.

Members Save 20%! We encourage you to become a member in order to take advantage of discounted conference rates. Please visit www.sickkids.ca/imp for full details on membership benefits. Not sure if you or your agency is a member? Contact IMHP before submitting registration to confirm your membership status. Refunds will not be issued for overpayment, and you will be invoiced for the difference in fees if your membership is not valid.

Early bird - Register by Feb. 14, 2011 to receive the discounted package rate for all three days - full two-day conference PLUS pre-conference workshop. After Feb. 14 full registration rates for both conference and preconference workshops will be applied.

Registration Deadline - Register early to ensure enrollment in your choice of sessions. Registration is limited and concurrent session selections will be allocated in the order of the date received. Registration will close March 26. Registrations received after March 26 may be declined.

Cancellation policy - Please be sure to read the cancellation policy prior to submitting your registration. Should you need to cancel your registration you must do so by email to [email protected] prior to March 1, 2011. Until March 1, there is a 50% refund for cancellation. After March 1, no refunds will be granted for withdrawal, however a replacement can be secured by the registrant pro-vided that you forward details in writing no later than April 1. Transfer of fees to another IMHP event is not possible.


EXPANDING HORIZONS FOR THE EARLY YEARS: Making Relationships Work for Infants and Toddlers

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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP – Wednesday April 13, 2009

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FULL CONFERENCE –Thursday April 14 & Friday April 15, 2011

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Concurrent Session Selection (Number 3 choices in each group in order of preference, i.e. 1, 2, 3. Selections will be allocated in order of receipt)Day 1 - AM A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9

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Register before March 26, 2011. Until March 1, 50% refund for cancellation. After March 1, NO refunds. See Registration Details for more information.

EARLY BIRD SPECIAL - Before Feb.14, 2011 ONLYFull Conference PLUS Pre-conference workshop - April 13, 14 and 15

IMP Members $560 Non-Members $ 700 $__________


SPONSORS

Expanding Horizons for the Early Years 2011 Conference Committee and Abstract Reviewers

Jim Howes, Aisling Discoveries, Babies Best Start (Committee Chair)Cynthia Alutis, Child Development Institute (IMHP, Co-Chair)

Ana Bruzon Catholic Children’s Aid Society of TorontoEllen Boychyn, OAICD/ Infant and Child Development - Durham

Louise Cohen, Toronto Children’s ServicesRochelle Fine, Hincks-Dellcrest Centre

Eileen Keith, Surrey Place CentreMargaret Leslie, Breaking the Cycle Mothercraft

Nancy Luciano, OAICD/ Durham Region Health Department, Infant and Child Development ServicesSusan Mendolia, Toronto Public Health

Lorna, Montgomery, OAICD / Peel Infant DevelopmentKathy Moran, Simcoe County Children’s Aid

Brenda Packard, Children’s Aid Society of TorontoCathy Sorichetti, Rosalie Hall

Mary Lou Walker, Toronto Public Health

Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP) Staff

Chaya Kulkarni, IMHP Director, IMPRINT Editor, 416-813-6062, e-mail: [email protected] Donna Hill, IMHP Administrative Assistant, 416-813-7654 x 1082, e-mail: [email protected]

Anjeza Sheno, IMHP Administrative Assistant, 416-813-7654 x 28185, email: [email protected]

Infant Mental Health Promotion (IMHP)The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 1X8

Fax: 416-813-2258 Web site: www.sickkids.ca/imp

With Special Thanks to Kind Sponsors

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