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You’ve told us and we’ve listened! This year’s HMG National Forum will offer more opportunities than ever before to meet, talk, and connect with others across the National Affiliate Network. Whether you want to grapple with a pressing challenge in a group setting, connect one-on-one, or just meet new people, this year’s Forum will offer:

Topic-Based Networking Sessions: Topic-based networking sessions are designed to bring affiliates together for facilitated discussions on a variety of relevant, engaging topics.

Discussion Rooms: Unstructured networking opportunities for affiliates to connect with others serving in similar HMG roles across the National Network. 

Keynote Debriefing Sessions: Using the discussion room feature, affiliates can join small group conversations to debrief and connect on what they heard and learned about following each of the two featured Keynotes.

Speed-Networking: Instant networking, where affiliates who choose to participate are matched in pairs at random and given five minutes to connect during a video meeting before moving on to their next match.

Outreach Coordinator Network Meet-Up: Providing practical strategies, tools, and resources, this session will bring together those serving in outreach and engagement roles across the National Network to meet and learn from each other. The HMG Outreach Coordinator Network is part of the HMG National Center’s Building Connections initiative. 

State Lead Building Connections Kickoff: Starting off a series of retreats for those leading HMG at the state-level, the State Lead Building Connections Kickoff will celebrate a forthcoming report on HMG state leadership and help shape the approach for our forthcoming retreats. This event is by invitation only. All state leads are encouraged to attend. 

HMG Physician Champion Networking: What does it look like when HMG Physician Championing is really successful? All HMG affiliates are encouraged to invite their existing and/or interested Physician Champions to join this session and meet others in the role and exchange tips, tricks, and cautionary tales in order to strengthen our collective approaches to HMG Physician Champion work. 

Drop-in with Dr. Paul Dworkin and Kimberly Martini-Carvel: Join a casual conversation with the founder and executive director of the HMG National Center! Bring your questions, thoughts, and ideas because all are welcome.

Poster Session: HMG affiliates showcase an area of their work in a brief, visual, and conversational way. Posters often highlight affiliate innovations, enhancements to the Model, engagement strategies for community partners and families, continuous quality improvement projects, and more

Sponsor & Exhibitor Session: Drop-in and meet with entrepreneurs and thought leaders showcasing products, tools, and services practical to early childhood providers and system-builders. 

Miriam Calderón

Chief Policy Officer
ZERO TO THREE

POLICY & COMMUNITY CHANGE KEYNOTE
DAY 2 • SEPTEMBER 20

As the Chief Policy Officer, Miriam Calderón leads the development and implementation of ZERO TO THREE’s policy agenda, priorities, and strategies; oversees the Policy Center, which includes federal and state policy and advocacy; and serves as the principal spokesperson for the organization on public policy matters.

Calderón joined ZERO TO THREE after serving as a Presidential appointee in the Biden Administration in the role of deputy assistant secretary for early learning at the U.S. Department of Education. She also served as a political appointee in the Obama Administration, where she advised the White House on early learning policy at the Domestic Policy Council and at the Department of Health and Human Services. Calderón was appointed by Governor Kate Brown in 2017 to serve as the early learning system director for the state of Oregon, where she led an agency responsible for administration of child care, preschool, and home visiting programs and supports for the early childhood workforce. In this role, she oversaw implementation of the largest expansion of early childhood investments for young children and families in the state’s history.

Prior to Oregon, she served as the senior director of early learning at the Bainum Family Foundation, where she shaped a new $10 million philanthropic investment in a comprehensive birth-to-three system for the District of Columbia. She was also a senior fellow with the BUILD Initiative, leading BUILD’s work related to dual language learners and serving as a faculty member for BUILD’s Equity Leaders Action Network. Previously, Calderón served as director of early childhood education at District of Columbia Public Schools, where she oversaw Head Start and pre-kindergarten programs, including helping to implement universal pre-kindergarten. Calderón also served as associate director of education policy at the UnidosUS (formerly National Council of La Raza), a Hispanic civil rights organization, where she focused on early education policy for Latinx, immigrant, and dual language learner children.

She began her career in early childhood as a mental health consultant in Head Start programs in Portland, Oregon. Calderón holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from the University of Delaware and a Master of Social Work degree from Portland State University.

Find Miriam Here!

www.zerotothree.org/policy-and-advocacy 
Twitter: @miriamelena88

Iheoma U. Iruka, Ph.D.

Research Professor, Department of Public Policy
Fellow, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute
Founding Director, Equity Research Action Coalition at FPG
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FAMILY CO-LEADERSHIP KEYNOTE
DAY 3 • SEPTEMBER 21

Iheoma U. Iruka, Ph.D., is a Research Professor in the Department of Public Policy, a Fellow at the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute (FPG), and the Founding Director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at FPG at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Iruka is leading projects and initiatives focused on ensuring that minoritized children and children from low-income households, especially Black children, are thriving through the intersection of anti-bias, anti-racist, culturally grounded research, program, and policy. Some focus areas include family engagement and support, quality rating and improvement systems, and early care and education system and programs. Dr. Iruka serves on numerous national and local boards and committees, including the National Advisory Committee for the U.S. Census Bureau, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, the American Psychological Association’s Board of Educational Affairs, Brady Education Foundation, and Trust for Learning.

She has a B.A. in Psychology from Temple University, an M.A. in Psychology from Boston University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in applied developmental psychology from the University of Miami, FL.

Iheoma Iruka is pronounced EE-OMAH EE-ROO-KAH

Find Iheoma Here!

iruka@unc.edu; FPGEquityCoalition@unc.edu
Website: https://equity-coalition.fpg.unc.edu
LinkedIn: @IheomaIruka @FPGInstitute @UNCPublicPolicy @unccollege
Twitter: @IheomaIruka @FPGInstitute @UNCPublicPolicy @uncollege
Facebook: @iuiruka
Instagram: @irukathompson
#FPGEquityCoalition

This year’s HMG National Forum has two predominant themes: 
       1. Family Co-Leadership
       2. Policy & Community Change 

These two themes will be reflected in the event’s keynotes, HMG National Center remarks, HMG Florida co-host spotlight, and throughout many of the content sessions and networking opportunities. 

Other areas of focus for sessions include: 
      • Equity and inclusion
      • Strengthening family-level protective factors
      • Addressing social determinants of health
      • Emerging trends in technology

Call Proposals

Call for content session and poster proposals is closed. HMG National is still accepting proposals for topic-based networking sessions:

Networking with other system building and early childhood leaders is an essential element of the HMG Forum. To promote connection and relationship building, HMG National is dedicated to maintaining a variety of networking opportunities for the National Affiliate Network during the virtual event. Topic-based networking sessions are designed to bring affiliates together for facilitated discussions on a variety of relevant, engaging topics. Each topic-based networking session is 60-minutes in length on day 2 of the event (September 20, 2022).

Email Cassie at ctherriault@connecticutchildrens.org to apply.

Forum Planning Committee

The Forum Planning Committee (FPC) provides an exciting opportunity for affiliates to represent the goals, interests, and needs of the Affiliate Network in the design and implementation of key activities to ensure that the Forum engages and supports affiliates. This year the National Center looks forward to establishing a FPC that can build on the successful contributions of previous Committees and also bring new ideas and strategies that maximize a virtual Forum experience for all attendees.

2022 Forum Planning Committee Members: 

• Liz Randall, HMG Florida & Event Co-Host 
• Denise Bishop, HMG Florida & Event Co-Host
• Jodi West, HMG Utah 
• Nicole Hopkins, HMG New Jersey
• Alison Goldschlag-Reinking, HMG New Jersey
•  Mia Jones, HMG Alachua County, FL 
• Randee Gabriel, HMG Palm Beach, FL 
• Janet Fleming, HMG Ventura County, CA
• Charnel Forbes, HMG Indiana 
• Courtney Gupta, HMG Michigan
• Natasha Jahani, HMG Texas 
• Kathy Houston, HMG North Texas
• Kitty Surve, Partner of HMG North Texas

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Annual Help Me Grow
Virtual Forum | September 21-23, 2021

The 12^th Annual HMG National Virtual Forum consisted of four half-days of presentations, featuring 107 speakers and 72 sessions. Co-hosted by Help Me Grow Indiana, the agenda featured HMG affiliate-led content sessions, national speakers, poster presentations, exhibitor booths and networking opportunities. Sessions this year included content focusing on advancing equity, Infant mental health principles, strategies for universal developmental screening, and the importance of centering parents and families in our collective work. In addition, this year’s Forum featured three Keynote and Plenary Addresses: Dr. Dina Lieser from the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Dr. Wendy Ellis of the Center for Community Resilience, and Dr. David Williams from the Harvard School of Public Health.  

As a safe alternative to coming together in person, the HMG National Center hosted a Virtual HMG Forum on September 20-23, 2021.

Access the recordings, slides, and materials
from all Forum 2021 sessions

Annual Help Me Grow
Virtual Forum | August 10-12, 2020

The 11^th Annual HMG National Virtual Forum consisted of three half-days of presentations, featuring approximately 12 hours of content. Sessions this year included content focusing on Child Health Provider engagement, Infant mental health principles, Strategies for connecting with and supporting indigenous and tribal communities, and the importance of centering parents and families in our collective work. In addition, we were delighted to welcome again, our 2019 HMG National Forum Keynote, Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, for an engaging, moderated session to provide her expertise in the context of our current public health crisis, COVID-19, and our national movement for a more equitable society, in the context of Help Me Grow.

As a safe alternative to coming together in person, the HMG National Center hosted a Virtual HMG Forum on August 10-12, 2020 via Zoom Webinar. Access the recordings, slides, and materials from all sessions below.

Materials and recordings of the 2020 Virtual Forum are available to affiliates of the HMG National Network here. 

Access materials from the 2019 HMG National Forum

Access materials from the 2018 HMG National Forum

Access materials from the 2017 HMG National Forum