Our History

 

2025

  • MOAIMH-EC hired their first Executive Director, Denise McDrummond, IMH-E® and their Endorsement Coordinator, Bre-Ann Slay, IMH-E® | Meet Our Staff

  • Hosted our inaugural Reflective Supervision Symposium | Reflection and Resilience Supporting Our Workforce in Challenging Times

  • Partnered with Head Start, Children’s Mercy Healthy Families America, and Child Abuse Prevention Association to support staff towards Endorsement

  • MOAIMH-EC is in partnership with the MIssouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) and UMKC Early Childhood Innovation Center to support 50 Home Visiting staff across the state to earn the Endorsement credential. MOAIMH-EC is also providing a year of Reflective Supervision/Consultation to the HV staff.

  • 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 over the next three years! 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