Dear members and friends, It is time to wrap up another year of connection, learning and hopefully for all of us, meaningful experiences. We invite you to attend our annual general meeting next Thursday, June 8 from 5:15pm to 6:45pm via zoom. There will be a planned discussion which includes a summary of the year’s finances as well as the president’s reporting of the year’s activities.  Also very important, election of the executive members will take place on this day and your vote is of essence to establish the new year’s team. Please if you are interested in an executive position or would like to nominate someone, it is important that you attend this meeting or fill out the attached proxy form authorizing someone to vote on your behalf if you cannot be there.  Also attached for preview are the Financial Report and the President’s Report.  If you have any questions please reach out any time. Otherwise we look forward to seeing you on June 8th and again, we encourage you to participate in this very important meeting which will help shape the new WCAIMH year of learning.  Please email aris@develop.bc.ca to get the AGM agenda and/or the Zoom...

Hi everyone, We are approaching another month!! And with that, means another Lunch & Learn – time where we can spend one lunch hour each month, together with other clinicians, diving into current research regarding infant mental health. Here is the next article we will tackle as a group: The ethics of infant and early childhood mental health practice (Izaak Lim, Jon Korfmacher, Alison Steier, Charles Zeanah, Paula D. Zeanah). The article can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/Y2VXDTR7UJTIQX4CEQIT?target=10.1002/imhj.22055. We look forward to your engagement with this article! Please email aris@develop.bc.ca for the Zoom...

Our upcoming monthly meeting will be held on on Thursday, May 11 from 5:15pm to 6:45pm.  We are very excited to welcome Dr. Angela Low Provincial Lead for Early Years Health and Wellness at Child Health BC, who is overseeing the development and implementation of Feelings First, a provincial program to promote social and emotional development in the early years. She also works alongside other health promotion programs for young children. Angela will speak to upcoming opportunities to get involved in this project, talk about a few resources she can offer you that may be of interest to you. She will allow time for Q&A. Angela is also an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia. Her research interests include emotional processes behind learning (particularly the discrete emotions of shame and guilt) and social and emotional development in children and parents. Please email aris@develop.bc.ca if you have an active membership and need the Zoom link. Looking forward to learning...

For our next Lunch & Learn on Tuesday May 2nd at 12pm PST, we will be diving into this article entitled “‘Nobody taught her how to be a mother’: The lived experience of mothering without a mother”: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/I24RTDPSTTWF5DNIASQ7?target=10.1002/imhj.22059 Please email aris@develop.bc.ca if you need access to the Zoom link. Looking forward to exploring this intriguing topic...