A National Home for AIMHs.
AIMHI-USA connects and supports state, territorial, and tribal nation Associations for Infant Mental Health, creating a national home where AIMHs can build relationships, learn from one another, share what they know, find support, and make more possible together.
We believe strong AIMHs matter.
They strengthen the professionals, relationships, organizations, communities, and systems surrounding babies and young children.
And we believe AIMHs become even stronger when they are connected to one another—and to the abundance of knowledge, relationships, resources, and opportunities throughout the broader IECMH field.
About AIMHI-USA
What We Believe
Relationships matter.
They are at the heart of IECMH, and they're at the heart of how we work together.
Our differences make the network stronger.
AIMHs have different histories, structures, communities, strengths, and approaches. Those differences give us more to learn from and share with one another.
There is wisdom throughout this network.
Every AIMH brings experience, knowledge, and perspective worth sharing.
Abundance grows through connection.
We believe AIMHs are strengthened by relationships that open doors to knowledge, resources, opportunities, and ideas across the field.
Support matters for leaders, too.
The people building and leading AIMHs need places to reflect, ask questions, learn, be encouraged, and know they aren't doing this work alone.
We build with AIMHs.
We believe AIMHs should help shape what we learn, explore, and build together.
Babies need all of us.
We believe babies and families are better supported when the people, organizations, and systems around them are connected to one another.
Our Role in the Field
AIMHI-USA is part of a much larger infant and early childhood mental health community, rich with knowledge, relationships, resources, ideas, and opportunities.
We want AIMHs connected to all of it.
Our role is to strengthen AIMHs and the relationships among them, while helping build connections throughout the broader field.
Sometimes that means creating something together. Sometimes it means sharing what another AIMH has learned, connecting people who should know one another, or bringing an opportunity or resource into the network.
There is abundance in this field. Relationships help us share it.
That's what Growing National Relationships means to us.
Where We Started
AIMHI-USA began with relationships.
Leaders from seven AIMHs came together around a shared question: What might be possible if AIMHs had a national home where they could connect, learn from one another, and grow stronger together?
Those conversations became the foundation for AIMHI-USA, and the seven AIMHs are now known as AIMHI-USA’s Convening Partners
What began with seven organizations is growing into a national network shaped by AIMHs across the country.
And we're still building it together.
Shaped by AIMHs
AIMHI-USA is being built with AIMHs, and we want it to stay that way.
The experiences, ideas, questions, and needs AIMHs bring to this network help shape our work. They help us see where connections could be stronger, where resources or support are needed, and where there may be something worth building together.
We want to keep listening as the network grows—and let what we hear influence where we put our time, energy, and resources.
What AIMHs share with us will help shape what comes next.
Convening Partners
Missouri Association for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health
Nevada Association for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health
New Mexico Association for Infant Mental Health
Association for Infant Mental Health in Ohio
Association of Infant Mental Health in Tennessee
First 3 Years - Texas
Center for Early Relational Health - Washington
There is room
for you here.
Whether you're part of an AIMH, building one,
or interested in connecting with the network,
we'd love to hear from you.
