Our History

 

2025

……. Coming Soon!

  • Hosted a Spring Conference in partnership with the Department of Mental Health

  • Leadership Cohort for Early Childhood Endorsement was formed and earned their Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement®.

  • Endorsement opens to the state in a cohort model.

  • Hosted our Annual Conference: Nurturing Resilience November 15, 2024 with over 100 attendees!

  • Gatherings begin to provide MOPD Clock Hours

  • Thanks to a subawardee grant from UMKC Early Childhood Innovation Center, MOAIMH-EC in partnership with KAIMH will be supporting Endorsement for hundreds of Early Childhood Education Center Staff! This grant also provided funding for MOAIMH-EC to hire an Executive Director and Endorsement Coordinator

2024

2023

  • Infant Mental Health Endorsement Statewide Kickoff

  • Leadership Cohort for Infant Mental Health earns Endorsement®

New Logo 2023 - Present

 

2022

  • Thanks to a grant from the Children’s Trust Fund, Missouri became the 34th state to join the Alliance and license Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health®

2021

  • Gatherings gain participation statewide

  • Growth of DEI, Education and Endorsement committees and DEI action planning

2020

  • MOAIMH-EC accepted into Forward through Ferguson’s Racial Equity Roundtable

  • Regional Gatherings launched

2019

  • Statewide childhood mental health endorsement conversations begin with DSS and then sidelined by pandemic in 2020

2018

  • MOAIMH-EC hosts first statewide retreat

2017

  • Official affiliation with the national Alliance established

  • Website launch

  • Membership structure established

Original logo 2017-2021

 

  • 501(c)3 status established

  • Creation of Mission, Vision, Goals, and Capacity Building Strategies

  • Adoption of Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation, Conflict of Interest Policies, Whistleblower, Ethics, and Record Retention Policies

2016

2015

 

  • Adopt name for the group “Missouri Association for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health”

  • Elect inaugural Officers and Board of Directors

  • Group of professionals in Kansas City discuss creation of an Association in Missouri focused on Infant Mental Health