A professional home for all birth-to-six professionals in Alabama
First 5 Alabama (AL-AIMH) works across Alabama to equip and support professionals who serve infants, young children and their families through specialized in-service training, advocacy and Endorsement®. First 5 Alabama (AL-AIMH) hopes to supply these professionals with everything they need to support strong relationships for infants, young children and their families, and those who care for them all.
First 5 Alabama is Alabama’s Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association.
We are an organization of individuals committed to strengthening relationships between infants, toddlers, early childhood-aged children, parents, and other caregivers.
First 5 Alabama's Vision, Mission, Purpose, and Goals
All Alabama Children Thrive By Five
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Promote throughout Alabama, the healthy social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of young children through supportive and nurturing relationships from conception through five years of age;
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Facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation among individuals concerned with promoting conditions that will bring about the optimal development of young children and child-caregiver and child-parent relationships;
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Encourage the realization that early childhood is a sensitive period in the psychosocial development of individuals;
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Promote education, research, and study of the effects of mental development during early childhood on later social/emotional/behavioral and psychopathological development;
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Promote education, professional development, and expertise of a cadre of professionals concerning the mental health of young children, parents, families and other caregivers of young children;
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Promote mental health in early childhood by developing evidence-based practices and/or informing programs about promotion, prevention, intervention, and care.