KAIMH annual conference
Join us May 1-2, 2025 in Salina, KS!
For the best conference price, become a KAIMH member for $35 (the conference and membership is less than the conference fee for non-members). Member Registration ($275), Non-Member Registration ($325) Become a member here.
Call for Breakout Presentations
Celebrate 30 years with us at our 2025 Annual Conference May 1-2 in Salina, KS! KAIMH is seeking 1.5 hour presentations that support Infant Mental Health Endorsement competencies and address professional development for the broad range of professionals (early care and education, home visiting, therapy, behavioral and emotional health, parenting education, early intervention, academia, policy, etc.) who work with or for infants & toddlers and their caregivers and families who are pregnant. To indicate your interest, please complete this form by Friday, December 20, 2024.
Thursday Conference Keynote:
Tabatha Rosproy
2020 National Teacher of the Year
Tabatha Rosproy
Join us in Salina, KS with keynote speaker, Tabatha Rosproy, who will share insightful information on resiliency for early childhood professionals and bringing joy into our daily work. This will also mark KAIMH’s 30th year as an organization, so plan to join us for a special birthday celebration and evening mixer!
Alice Eberhart-Wright Visionary Award
AEW Nomination
The Alice Eberhart-Wright Visionary Award recognizes outstanding achievements and significant contributions in the field of infant and early childhood mental health. The award is given to those who represent the mission of KAIMH and illustrate passion, creativity and best practices in their work supporting infant and early childhood mental health in Kansas. This award will be presented each year at the KAIMH annual conference. If you would like to nominate a candidate for the 2025 award, please complete the nomination form below by March 1st, 2025.
Congratulations to the 2024 AEW Recipient:
Shana Schmidt
They say it takes a village. Our village is composed of our matriarch, Alice, for whom this award is named. A true visionary and storyteller that I am honored to be associated with.
Across the span of my 30-year career I have witnessed multiple changes and challenges to the strength of our village. The privatization of foster care, the creation of the Children’s Cabinet, and the understanding that early childhood emotional and relational development has a place in the mental health community. With each change came a challenge, yet slowly we saw a change.
Services such as training, consultation, coaching, and reflective supervision have taken me to every corner of our state and into many of your programs. From Hiawatha to Garden City, you each became a part of my village. You taught me about your community and the needs that are specific to that population. You laughed with me, and sometimes at me, when I made ridiculous assumptions about what I thought I knew your community needed.
The mentors in this room held me up when I took myself way too seriously, and the new energies entering this field of work rebuilt my hope for the future.
Look around you. This is your village.