Categories are based on your scope of practice/work with or on behalf of infants and young children. There is a category of Endorsement for everyone in the infant and early childhood workforce.
- Family Specialist: Family Specialists work in Prevention and Early intervention. They work with the infant/child and caregiver together using their IECMH expertise to assess social emotional needs, provide preventative support, and connect families to additional services.
- Policy: Policy professionals work to promote infant and early childhood informed policy and program development. They use their IECMH expertise to support macro systems.
- Mental Health Specialist/Clinical: Mental Health Specialists and Clinical Mentors provide clinical intervention to the infant/child and their caregiver together. They use their IECMH expertise to address identified social-emotional & relational health needs through direct intervention. *In addition, Mentor-Clinical also provides RSC and demonstrates leadership.
- Family Associate: Family Associates work to promote healthy growth, development, and relationships. They use their IECMH expertise to support young children, caregivers, systems and other IECMH professionals through direct service and/or macro.
- Research/Faculty: Research/Faculty professionals work to promote what we know in the IECMH community through research and academia. They use their IECMH expertise to inform students, professionals, programs and systems.
Reflective Supervision Add-On
Receiving reflective supervision/consultation is considered best practice for all professionals working with, or on behalf of, infants and young children. RSC is a requirement for several categories of Endorsement. RSC supports professionals so that professionals can best support families, young children, and babies.
ERS (Endorsed Reflective Supervisor) If, in addition to being endorsed as a family specialist or mental health specialist, you also provide RSC to other IECMH professionals, you can apply for the ERS add-on and become a qualified provider of RSC for other professionals working towards and maintaining their IECMH-E®.
ERS can provide qualifying hours to any Family Specialist or Mental Health Specialist. ERS can Receive RSC from other ERS or MHM-Clinical