South Carolina Infant Young Child Mental Health Association

The safe babies court team approach is a community engagement and systems change initiative that is changing the trajectory for infants and toddle in foster care. Families are embraced by a team and given targeted and timely advice.

Scima offers many opportunities for professionals across child- and family-serving sectors to deepen their knowledge and understanding of infant mental health principles and practices. These opportunities include access to monthly webinars delivered by iecmh experts from an array of disciplines, a curated list of free, online professional development opportunities, a monthly study group series, and the scimha annual meeting and conference. In an effort to build the reflective capacity of skills of infant mental health professionals, scimha also hosts and reflective supervision learning collaborative. Supervisors participating in the 12-month learning collaborative receive reflective supervision from an endorsed provider and develop skills to deliver reflective supervision to their own staff.