A professional home for all birth-to-six professionals in Alabama
First 5 Alabama (AL-AIMH) works across Alabama to equip and support professionals who serve infants, young children and their families through specialized in-service training, advocacy and Endorsement®. First 5 Alabama (AL-AIMH) hopes to supply these professionals with everything they need to support strong relationships for infants, young children and their families, and those who care for them all.
First 5 Alabama is Alabama’s Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Association. We are an organization of individuals committed to strengthening relationships between infants, toddlers, early childhood-aged children, parents, and other caregivers.
First 5 Alabama's Vision, Mission, Purpose, and Goals
All Alabama Children Thrive By Five
Promote throughout Alabama, the healthy social, emotional, cognitive, and physical development of young children through supportive and nurturing relationships from conception through five years of age
Facilitate interdisciplinary cooperation among individuals concerned with promoting conditions that will bring about the optimal development of young children and child-caregiver and child-parent relationships
Encourage the realization that early childhood is a sensitive period in the psychosocial development of individuals
Promote education, research, and study of the effects of mental development during early childhood on later social/emotional/behavioral and psychopathological development
Promote education, professional development, and expertise of a cadre of professionals concerning the mental health of young children, parents, families and other caregivers of young children
Promote mental health in early childhood by developing evidence-based practices and/or informing programs about promotion, prevention, intervention, and care
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