The 2025 Conference is Now Available for Purchase!
$50 for WI-AIMH Members
$85 for Nonmembers
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Now Available for Purchase!
The 2025 Wisconsin Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Virtual Conference is available for purchase! We’ve had lots of interest in accessing the recordings of our annual conference on October 14, 2025, so we’ve decided to make it available to those who missed the registration deadline or were unable to attend.
Recordings available till November 17th.
Additional Information:
There will be up to six (6) CEUs available for those who attend all three conference sessions. Registry credit is also available!
Your attendance at the Wisconsin Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Virtual Conference can provide up to six training hours toward Endorsement®.
See suggested Competencies here!
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WI-AIMH’s 2025 Wisconsin Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Virtual Conference’s Keynote:
Kadija Johnston
Watching, Wondering and Making Meaning:
Understanding and Attending to the Messages Expressed Through Children’s Behavior
Kadija Johnston, LCSW is a clinical social worker who has been a practitioner in the field of infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) since 1985. Her now nearly 40 year career in the infant mental field began as a teacher/therapist and mental health consultant at the Early Childhood Mental Health Program .
Ms. Johnston is currently an independent consultant to several states and many programs across the country and internationally, assisting them in developing and implementing diversity and equity informed infant and early childhood mental health (IECMH) clinical programs. She is an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Child and Human Development where she is contributing her expertise and experience in early childhood mental health consultation to two national TA centers. Ms. Johnston is the past Director of the Infant- Parent Program at the University of California, San Francisco, where she pioneered an approach to IECMH Consultation which now serves as a model for other organizations, locally, nationally, and internationally. Ms. Johnston is active in several national early childhood mental health organizations, including being a founding member of the Reflective Supervision Collaborative and RAINE, a Southwest Human Development sponsored group of national experts advancing practice, policy and research in ECMH Consultation. She writes and lectures nationally on infant and early childhood mental health related topics. In addition to numerous articles, she co-authored the book Mental Health Consultation in Child Care: Transforming Relationships With Directors, Staff, and Families.
In the final phase of her professional journey, Kadija is committed, and devoting energy to authentically instilling equity, diversity, and inclusion principles and transformational healing practices in all her endeavors. To this end, she is co-facilitating communities of practice and providing webinars directed at the intersection of equity and early childhood clinical practice. She is a national workshop facilitator on the Diversity Informed Tenets for Work with Infant, Children and Families.
