Crosswalks: Helpful Tools for You to Use

The Competency Guidelines can be used to build a comprehensive infant and early childhood mental health system.

They create a shared framework or "map" for professional development across all sectors and disciplines of the infant, early childhood and family field across the full spectrum of service delivery, including promotion, prevention, treatment and intervention, and macro. Additionally, they outline the requirements for Endorsement by guiding one's development of knowledge, skills & best practices, gained through specialized experiences (education, work, in-service training, and reflective supervision/consultation).

The Alliance partners with organizations to promote our mutual commitment to workforce development across the field through competency informed training, coursework, and experiences. To do this, we develop a crosswalk across the partner organization’s content and the Competnecy Guidelines.  The Competency Guidelines are aligned with many in-service training/curriculum, evidence-based practice models, certificates and secondary education programs.  

Certificate Programs

• Erikson Institute Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate Program

• Georgetown Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Certificate Program

• University of North Carolina Charlotte’s Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) Graduate Certificate

• University of North Carolina Greensboro’s Leadership in Infant Toddler Learning (LITL) Certificate

• University of Wisconsin Infant, Early Childhood and Family Mental Health Capstone Certificate Program

Curricula, Evidence-Based Practice Models, & Trainings

• Attachment Biobehavioral Catchup - Infant

• Brazelton Touchpoints — Coming in 2024!

• Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Competencies

• Child First

• Child Parent Psychotherapy

• Circle of Security Parenting™ (COSP™) Facilitator Training

• Healthy Families America

• Infant Massage USA

• Pyramid Model Training Modules (for Endorsement® Applicants)

• Start Early | Essentials of Home Visiting Self-Paced Courses & Webinars

• Start Early | NEAR@Home

Secondary Education Courses & Programs

• Eastern Michigan University School of Social Work: “Impact of Trauma on Infants, Toddlers & Young Children”

• Eastern Michigan University School of Social Work: “Introduction to Infant Mental Health Practice”

• University of Pittsburgh School of Education Program in Applied Developmental Psychology

• Wayne State University Dual Title Program in Infant Mental Health

The presence on this list means that the crosswalk has been aligned with the knowledge/skill areas found within the Competency Guidelines and authored by at least one professional holding the Infant/Early Childhood Mental Health Endorsement (IMH-E®/ECMH-E®) credential.  The Alliance cannot guarantee Endorsement will be earned upon completion of any/all of the training curricula and/or coursework listed in the crosswalks above. Additionally, the Alliance cannot guarantee the accuracy, reliability or completeness of the crosswalk.