CARE for Children, a non-profit organization that provides services to children of all abilities, is offering a professional training to address Infant Mental Health with Erin Troup LPC, NCC, CT as presenter on June 14 from 8:45 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the University of Pittsburgh Bradford.

The workshop will introduce the basic principles of infant and early childhood mental health, and will focus on brain development and social emotional development from birth to five. Other topics include: critical periods of development; barriers to social and emotional growth, and information on maintaining a trauma-informed practice.

Registration includes workshop materials, lunch and light refreshments. Participants will earn 6 infant-toddler training hours, 6 Act 48 hours or 6 Social Work CEUs.

Troup is a licensed professional counselor specializing in early childhood social emotional needs, particularly attachment, grief and loss, trauma and anxiety. She earned her undergraduate degree in psychology and child development from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She attended Chatham University for her MS in counseling and earned her Infant Mental Health Certificate in Pennsylvania’s first Infant Mental Health cohort.

The Infant Mental Health professional training is sponsored by the United Way of the Bradford Area, Inc., McKean County Department of Human Services, and the University of Pittsburgh Bradford Social Work Program.

To register for the professional training, contact CARE for Children by phone at (814) 362-4621 or email at reception@careforchildren.info. Registration fees for the professional training are $50 per professional or $25 for McKean County Early Intervention providers. The registration deadline is June 7.