Two amazing days of learning, inspiration and fun.
Dive into the magical lineup of inspiring lecture sessions, deep-diving issue intensives, eye-opening plenaries and so much more. More details are being added all the time, so be sure to check back often for the latest updates!
More Sessions. More Content.
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It’s time to get planning — our full agenda is here. Our spectacular lineup of speakers and sessions will give you practical takeaways, valuable insight and in-depth understanding of the latest trends and practices that are essential to your work. With three unique session types to choose from, fully curate your LEARN Conference experience in a way that matches your professional development goals.
Baby Talks
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question or consideration for discussion.
Each Baby Talk Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Lecture Sessions
Lecture Sessions present new information or evolving understandings about a specific topic, process, or issue.
New this year, each of the Conference schedule blocks include:
- One Lecture Session featuring ZERO TO THREE staff and work. Don’t forget to stop by the ZERO TO THREE LEARN Booth to interact with ZERO TO THEEE team members all Conference long.
- At least one HealthySteps Lecture Session grounded in integrated pediatric care and focused on HealthySteps Specialist competencies, HealthySteps program implementation or continuous quality improvement.
Issue Intensives
Issue Intensives have a deep dive focus on an early childhood topic, process, or issue and include opportunities for learners to explore ways to use and apply the content in their work.
Issue Intensives include a mixture of presentation/information sharing to set context and interactive activities.
Each Issue Intensive Session is delivered in 2-parts, each 60 minutes for a total of 120 minutes (2 hours).
DAY 1
September 19, 2023
The Power in Our Journeys
Practice Plenary
Author and activist Nicole Lynn Lewis began college at William & Mary as a teen mother with her infant daughter in tow. The experience of navigating through a higher education system that was not designed for her provided an in-depth understanding of the challenges that student parents face including the intersectionality of race, gender, and poverty in their journeys.
Baby Talks: Insights on Engagement
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question/consideration for discussion. Each Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Meal Time: Talking With Children
STEM Learning for All Through Inclusive Teaching Practices
LS-A1: Decolonizing Leadership in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: What Can We Learn From the Black Liberation Movement?
Gather with us and learn from stories of how courageous leaders incorporate the mind, body, and soul to reimagine justice in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH).
LS-A2: Mindfulness, Stories and Internal States: Building Resilience Across Generations
Learn more about a collaborative, rapid cycle process is used to revise and refine. Are you ready to innovate?
LS-A3: From Development to Research: A State’s Journey with Reflective Practice and Supervision Curricula
Hear about reflective practice and supervision (RP/S) curricula, the state-wide planning and coordination that allowed for feasible implementation, and key program evaluation and research findings that point to the effectiveness of its professional development series.
LS-A4: Universal Design for Learning as a Tier 1 Approach to Inclusion in an Infant and Toddler Classroom
Join us as we acknowledge our own beliefs, biases, and practices, and identify UDL strategies related to caring for infants and toddlers that support authentic inclusion from a Tier 1 lens.
Featuring ZTT Work
LS-A5: Early Connections: Supporting Parent Development Through a Café Approach
Join us to learn about this new resource, which centers parents’ voices and lived experiences.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-A6: Bridging the Gap: Leveraging a Multidisciplinary Team to Address Disparities in Postpartum Depression Screening and Intervention
Review strategies for collaborations between HealthySteps and pediatric providers to transform screening, referral, and service delivery practices to provide more equitable care
Issue Intensive: Part 1
II-A1: Early Screening, Better Outcomes: Exploring Developmental Screening and Referral Toolkits
Learn about holding developmental conversations with families including attention to linguistic and cultural diversity.
Issue Intensive: Part 1
II-A2: Building Cross-Sector Coalitions Rooted in Grassroots Experiences to Advocate for Children
Learn about Mississippi’s process to create a diverse coalition. Explore its criteria for partnership and the shared principles/processes for collaboration. Reflect and consider how you might begin this process. Benefit from group critical and generative discussions.
Issue Intensive: Part 1
II-A3: Re-envisioning Authentic Voice Through the Lens of Critical Self-Reflection
Members of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative will focus this session on supporting the critical self-awareness needed to re-envision one’s authentic voice.
Baby Talks: Mitigations to Advance Equity in Perinatal Care
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question/consideration for discussion. Each Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Lost in Translation: The Risks Language and Cultural Barriers Present in Our Spanish-Speaking Patients Receiving Perinatal Care
When the Bough Breaks: Creating a Safety Net System of Care for Perinatal MH in DC
Black Mothers Care Plan: Reducing Racial Bias and Supporting Maternal and Infant Health
LS-B1: Holding the Baby in Mind: Organizational Leadership Strategies to Advance Infant Mental Health Services
Learn how one community mental health center used a strategic planning workgroup to advance the delivery of infant mental health services in a setting where knowledge and ability to serve infants were limited.
LS-B2: Building Capacity of Program Directors to Drive Improvement and Inspire Educators: A Case Study from Fort Worth, Texas
Learn about an evidence-based framework for program improvement, the Start Early Essentials, and hear a case study of the framework in action.
LS-B3: Getting to “Being With”: The Journey from Wanting to Help to Feeling With in Infant and Early Childhood Workforce Development
Decode what it means to “be with” vulnerable families, including lessons learned from the field, specific strategies and reflections on individual biases.
LS-B4: Tools for Your Toolbox: Integrating the Diversity-Informed Tenets and FAN© into Mental Health Consultation
Discuss the hypothesis that these frameworks ensure enhanced, deep practice for the Consultant.
Featuring ZTT Work
LS-B5: Mental Health Assessment and Treatment Planning for Infants and Young Children in Child Welfare Systems
Learn about assessment and treatment planning for young children, and caregivers in the context of child welfare systems.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-B6a: Prescribing Play in Pediatric Well-Child Visits
Review and discuss the initial findings from a national pilot program that has engaged over 1,000 pediatric clinics nationally.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-B6b: Early Childhood Value-Based Payment Model in Pediatric Primary Care
Explore how a value-based payment model includes clinical quality measures stratified by race and ethnicity to assess and incentivize improvement in equity outcomes.
LS-B7: Cultivating the Development of Black Boys with an Equity Mindset
Creating success for African American boys requires thoughtful commitment and focus to offer high-quality learning environments. The ongoing professional development of education staff— like coaches, education managers, and supervisors— is key to this effort.
Issue Intensive: Part 2
II-A1: Early Screening, Better Outcomes: Exploring Developmental Screening and Referral Toolkits
Learn about holding developmental conversations with families including attention to linguistic and cultural diversity.
Issue Intensive: Part 2
II-A2: Building Cross-Sector Coalitions Rooted in Grassroots Experiences to Advocate for Children
Learn about Mississippi’s process to create a diverse coalition. Explore its criteria for partnership and the shared principles/processes for collaboration. Reflect and consider how you might begin this process. Benefit from group critical and generative discussions.
Issue Intensive: Part 2
II-A3: Re-envisioning Authentic Voice Through the Lens of Critical Self-Reflection
Members of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative will focus this session on supporting the critical self-awareness needed to re-envision one’s authentic voice.
Baby Talks: From Bias to Common Language
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question/consideration for discussion. Each Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Mind the Gaps: Approaches for Integrating Discussions on Bias into Reflective Supervision/Consultation
Developing a Common Language of Trauma-Informed Care Across Sectors of Early Childhood Providers
How Other People Do It: Unlocking Our Implicit Biases Regarding Parenting Practices to Deepen Relations With Families
LS-C1: Family, Friend, and Neighbor (FFN) Child Care: Reflections on Equity as Minnesota Expands Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Reflect with us on the Minnesota Department of Human Services expansion of early childhood mental health consultation to racially, ethnically and linguistically diverse FFN grantee staff and provider groups.
LS-C2: Outdoor Play with Young Children
Join us to discuss the joys, benefits and challenges of working with toddlers in an outdoor learning environment.
LS-C3: Advancing Equity in Early Intervention: Innovative Approaches in Illinois
Learn how Illinois is implementing innovative approaches to increase equitable access to early intervention (EI) services.
LS-C4: Instilling Hope: One Jurisdiction’s Journey to Build Hope and Support for Families Affected by Substance Use
Learn about how Oklahoma is supporting families of color to maintain family integrity and to prevent or reduce involvement with the criminal justice and child welfare systems.
LS-C5: Supporting and Empowering Gender Expansive Children and Their Families
Learn about concepts such as gender and gender expression and explore your understanding to better support children and families.
LS-C6: Lessons from New Mexico: Expanding Equitable Family Access Through Policy, Community Engagement and Communications
New Mexico has taken big steps recently to expand access to early childhood education. So, what has it meant for families?
LS-C7: Family Support Team: A Novel Co-Located Mental Health Support Initiative
Join us for a closer look at Family Support Team – highlighting screening methods used and treatment provided, recommended practices for multidisciplinary collaboration, and review outcomes from the first year of programming.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-C8: Distant Socializing: How the COVID 19 Pandemic Taught Us to Support HealthySteps Families, Bridge OB and Pediatrics, and Navigate Autism Services through Virtual Group-Based Interventions
Learn how moving to a virtual group-based intervention removed some barriers to service access, and about new curricula developed to support the parent-child dyad and address specific concerns of families referred to HealthySteps.
LS-C9: Case Formulation: The Link Between Assessment and Treatment
Learn about our method and how it includes essential questions to consider and a method for creating an empathic narrative that supports caregivers and points the way to effective treatment.
LS-C10: Member Exclusive Q&A with Practice Plenary Speaker Nicole Lynn Lewis
Young parenthood is already hard enough. But the stigmas that young parents face amplify the barriers in part because their victory stories defying expectations against all odds aren’t applauded enough. Join our Practice Plenary Speaker and founder of Generation Hope, Nicole Lynn Lewis, as she sits down for an intimate conversation with ZERO TO THREE members about how we can better support young mothers and their families.
Creating a Healthy and Just World in the Face of Climate Change: The Role of Early Childhood Professionals
Research/Science Plenary
As the greatest threat to public health in the 21st century, climate change can feel completely overwhelming, especially as its impact exacerbates existing inequities. But the world we want to create is worth imagining and pursuing—a world in which children can thrive.
ZERO TO THREE Community Reception
Who doesn’t love making new friends and engaging in lively discussion, especially over some food and drinks? After all, a big part of the LEARN Conference experience is meeting new connections and reconnecting with older ones. Our ZERO TO THREE Community Reception is the perfect opportunity to meet new connections and reconnect with older ones.
More details coming soon!
DAY 2
September 20, 2023
National Preview of the 2023 State of Babies Yearbook: Using Data and Stories to Advance Policy Change for Babies
Policy Plenary
Telling the story of babies is more important than ever. Join ZERO TO THREE for a preview of the fifth annual State of Babies Yearbook and be among the first to see new data on how America’s babies and families are faring.
Baby Talks: Inclusive Family- and Learner-Centered Engagement
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question/consideration for discussion. Each Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Family-Engaged Developmental Monitoring: Implications and Applications
Family-Centered Design: A Family Engagement Strategy for Building Equity and Social Justice
LS-D1: Meeting the Need: A Three-State Comparison of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Workforce Development Projects and Outcomes
Explore three infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) workforce development programs and the elements which contributed to positive outcomes for their respective states.
LS-D2: From Powerless to Powerful: Engaging Early Care and Education Providers in Advocacy to Move Public Policy
Consider strategies for advocacy efforts that focus on building communities, empowering providers and raising community awareness on how child care and the workforce go hand-in-hand.
LS-D3: Empowering Families of Children with Multiple Disabilities: Building Resiliency and Early Skills for a Brighter Future
Focus on the importance of individualized teaching strategies for both families and children who have disabilities.
LS-D4: Rethinking the Role of Professional Development as a Workforce Support Strategy – A Story from Mississippi
Learn how Mississippi uses professional development (PD) to support the workforce in equitable and effective ways.
Featuring ZTT Work
LS-D5: Honoring “Home” in Home-based Programs
Use the newly revised Multicultural Principles (MCP) framework to equip leaders to support home visitors in examining their own perceptions and unconscious bias and how they impact supports offered to children and families.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-D6: Strengthening Infrastructure and Processes to Collect and Report Outcome Data: Lessons from Three Primary Care Clinics
Learn about the findings from a HealthySteps Outcome Pilot Study and gain insights from three primary care clinics’ experiences building infrastructure and processes to report data.
Issue Intensive: Part 1
II-B1: Practicing Reflection as an Act of Rebellion, Liberation and Power: Listening One Year After the BIPOC Community of Leaders in Reflective Practice
Explore your role in promoting or dismantling barriers experienced by BIPOC providers.
Issue Intensive: Part 1
II-B2: Policy and Advocacy are Not a Mystery: A Call to Action for Individuals and Systems Leaders
Explore advocacy and policy with example perspectives from the systems-, programmatic-, and individual-level and strategies for each and all to consider.
Issue Intensive: Part 1
II-B3: Amplifying Family Voices in Your Community
Learn about an interactive workbook and other support for early childhood professionals in community-based organizations to authentically center the voices of families in early childhood programs, practices, and policy decisions.
Baby Talks: Innovations for Advancing Change
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question/consideration for discussion. Each Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Introducing the ECLDS Census Data Tool
Community Solutions: An Innovative Model for Grant Making
LS-E1: “They Just Don’t Get It”: Building Professional Capacity to Support Parents When a Child Dies
Siegel described the 4S’s—Safe, Seen, Soothed, Secure, as the interpersonal neurobiology of attachment. We propose these concepts to organize our understanding of times we face professional barriers to connection and offer a promise of building relational safety with families experiencing grief due to the death of a child.
LS-E2: Meeting Families Where They Are: A Two-Generation Approach
Explore how the state of Indiana uses a two-generational framework to expand CCRR services to include intentional connections with organizations that meet families’ needs.
LS-E3: Building Statewide Capacity to Identify and Serve Young Children with Autism and their Families
Learn about a model program created in partnership with a state-wide Part C system to improve access to evaluations for autism and follow-up support for families, particularly those who are traditionally under-served.
LS-E4: Creating and Sustaining a Statewide Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Teleconsultation Program for Cross-Sector Early Childhood Professionals
Review a statewide teleconsultation program that was implemented to transform access to infant and early childhood mental health training and consultation.
Featuring ZTT Work
LS-E5: The Momentum is Real: Implementation Progress on the Unifying Framework for the Early Childhood Education Profession
Consider opportunities and challenges in your own state as we share state-level progress to implement the Unifying Framework’s recommendations and the national-level work of the Commission on Professional Excellence in Early Childhood Education.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-E6a: HealthyStep-ing Up: Scaling and Impact in Colorado
Learn about statewide efforts to expand HealthySteps across Colorado over the past decade.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-E6b: Addressing Disparities and Collaboration in Early Intervention Referrals: Exploring Innovative Approaches and Lessons Learned
Explore the approach the HealthySteps program at University of Maryland, Baltimore is using to facilitate successful early intervention referrals.
Issue Intensive: Part 2
II-B1: Practicing Reflection as an Act of Rebellion, Liberation and Power: Listening One Year After the BIPOC Community of Leaders in Reflective Practice
Explore your role in promoting or dismantling barriers experienced by BIPOC providers.
Issue Intensive: Part 2
II-B2: Policy and Advocacy are Not a Mystery: A Call to Action for Individuals and Systems Leaders
Explore advocacy and policy with example perspectives from the systems-, programmatic-, and individual-level and strategies for each and all to consider.
Issue Intensive: Part 2
II-B3: Amplifying Family Voices in Your Community
Learn about an interactive workbook and other support for early childhood professionals in community-based organizations to authentically center the voices of families in early childhood programs, practices, and policy decisions.
Baby Talks: Expanding Service Paradigms
Baby Talk presentations summarize one powerful idea and tee-up one related question/consideration for discussion. Each Group begins with 30 minutes of 3 back-to-back presentations, followed by 30 minutes of interactive discussion amongst the presenters and the session participants.
Seeing Life Differently: Experiences with Families and Pediatric Ophthalmologists in the Clinic
Interoceptive Awareness in Early Childhood: Connecting Bodily Sensations to Emotions
The Impact of Reducing Barriers and Expanding Child Care Health Consultation to Increase Care Quality
LS-F1: Bridging Communication Together: Reflections on Clinical Treatment of a Trilingual Family
Discuss clinical treatment of a dyad with a Deaf caregiver and a hearing child, where family members use combinations of American Sign Language (ASL), Spanish, and English.
LS-F2: One Small Step for Early Learning, A Giant Leap for Later Life Success: Going Beyond with Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Learn about Miami-Dade’s Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation program, which works to ensure social-emotional development is embedded in teaching practices while reducing teacher stress.
LS-F3: Decreasing Disparities in Early Identification and Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Telehealth and Parent-Mediated Approaches
Explore with us three different parent-mediated early intervention modalities we offer to families via telehealth and how these interventions can improve child and parent outcomes as well as address challenges in providing services in rural areas to children with ASD and their parents.
LS-F4: Focusing on the First 40 days: Postpartum Wellbeing for Somali Parents
Join us to explore how to deliver appropriate education and support to Somali postpartum parents.
LS-F5: Conversations to Connections: Strategies for Talking to Pregnant Expectant Families About Substance Use
Join this session to learn how motivational interviewing strategies can promote open and ongoing conversations about substance use with expectant families.
LS-F6: Igniting a Statewide Movement to Support Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
Hear about the role of political will, social strategy, and knowledge base in fueling the success of Georgia’s infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) movement.
LS-F7: Empowering Early Childhood Professionals in Culturally and Linguistically Responsive, Equity-Centered Assessment for Systems Change
Define and discuss equity-centered assessment experiences in relation to family-centered and relationship-based care models that center early childhood professionals, children, and families.
HealthySteps Exclusive
LS-F8: Before Me Up to Age 3-Addressing Maternal Mental Health Concerns in a Novel 2-Generational Approach to Care
Hear about a novel program intended to identify and manage perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in a unique wrap-around program within the OB-GYN and pediatric primary care clinics at a large city hospital
LS-F9: Innovative Leaders Making a Powerful Difference: IECMH Emerging Leadership Awardees
Connect with the 2023 Emerging Leadership Awardees and discover the ways they are impacting infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) practices, policies, and systems. Be inspired by their passion, contributions, and goals. Reflect on your own professional journey with the insights you will gain from this session.
LS-F10: Member Exclusive Q&A with ZERO TO THREE’s Policy Team
Join members of the ZERO TO THREE Policy Team for an intimate Q&A session and find answers to all the policy-related questions floating around in your head.
The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
Keynote
In her keynote address, Annie Murphy Paul will explore the research behind an exciting new vision of human ability, exploring the findings of neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, psychologists, and examining the practices of educators, managers, and leaders who are already reaping the benefits of thinking outside the brain.