The SCIMHA Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-focused Practice Promoting Infant Mental Health and Early Childhood (IMH-E®/ECMH-E®)​ is intended to recognize experiences that lead to competency in the infant and early childhood family field. It does not replace licensure or certification, but instead is meant as evidence of a specialization in this field. The SCIMHA Endorsement®​ ​is cross-sector and multidisciplinary including professionals from child and/or human development, education, nursing, pediatrics, psychiatry, psychology, social work, and others. Endorsement​®​ indicates an individual’s efforts to specialize in the promotion/practice of infant and early childhood mental health within their own chosen discipline. 

Those who have earned Endorsement®​ ​have demonstrated that the individual has completed specialized education, work, in-service training, and reflective supervision/consultation experiences (as defined in Endorsement​®​ criteria) that have led to competency in the promotion and/or practice of infant and early childhood mental health. Endorsement®​ ​does not guarantee the ability to practice as a mental health professional, although many who have earned Endorsement® are licensed mental health professionals.

*PLEASE NOTE: Annual renewal is required to remain on the Endorsement® Registry. Please contact the endorsement coordinator for details.