Course Overview
Professionals who support infants, young children, and families often encourage caregivers to practice self-care, yet many members of the early childhood workforce are experiencing significant burnout. Workforce shortages, high-stress environments, and systemic inequities place increasing pressure on professionals across early childhood, health, and mental health systems. This Issue Intensive examines burnout within the infant and early childhood workforce and reframes traditional notions of self-care by considering the broader organizational and systemic conditions that influence provider well-being. Guided by the Diversity-Informed Tenets, presenters review national data on workforce burnout and explore how systems and organizations can either contribute to harm or support healing. Participants consider the role of critical consciousness in professional well-being and examine approaches such as Radical Healing principles and diversity-informed reflective partnerships. This Issue Intensive highlights strategies that support individual and collective healing while strengthening relational practice with families and communities.
Presenters: Faculty: Nucha Isarowong, PhD, LICSW, IMH-E®, Barnard Center for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, University of Washington; Haruko Watanabe, MA, LMHC, IMH-E®, Cooper House; and Carmen Rosa Noroña, LICSW, MSW, MSEd, IECMH-E®, Center for Excellence in Immigrant Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Boston Medical Center
Access for 1 year from date of purchase. Learn at your pace, on your schedule, without worrying about missing out.
Earn One contact hour (.1 CEU) with completion of CEU quiz and Evaluation.
Recordings will be uploaded following the 2026 LEARN Conference, with all sessions expected to be available by December 1, 2026. We’ll be sure to notify you as soon as the recordings are ready so you can watch or revisit the sessions at your convenience.