February Third Thursday Webinar
Planning for Long-Life Pathway Balance and Happiness:
Navajo Infant Mental Health Perspectives
Thursday, February 19th
at 12pm on Zoom
What to Expect
Grab your lunch and join us for an engaging conversation with Dawn A. Yazzie, Member of the Navajo Nation and Founding Director of Dził Nitsaa Consulting and Services, LLC!
Dawn A. Yazzie will share with us from her many years of experience in Infant Mental Health and Early Relational Health with Navajo communities.
She will lead us in a discussion exploring how different cultures approach infant and early childhood development. We will learn about traditional Navajo culture and the intentional caregiving practices that are woven into daily life and routines.
Dawn will share her strategies for integrating both traditional Navajo and Western "ways of knowing" in her Infant Mental Health work.
We hope you'll choose to join us for this rich discussion.
And as always, these webinars are free to join!
Meet our presenter
Dawn A. Yazzie, MA, NCC
Fort Defiance, AZ member of the Navajo Nation
Founder, Dził Nitsaa Consulting and Services, LLC
Dawn currently focuses on her business, Dził Nitsaa Consulting and Services, LLC, to support states, agencies, Tribal and non-Tribal communities to build culturally relevant IECMH practices and IECMHC services to support young children and families in their early learning and care communities. She brings a focus on honoring unique family histories, storytelling, and multigenerational healing as a beginning step to the healing justice work.
She has over 27 years of experience in the mental health field and for many of those years she worked in the field of Infant Mental Health/Early Relational Health. For 8 of those years she worked as an Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant (IECMHC) on the Navajo Nation; and she also provided national technical assistance to federal grantees around IECMH/IECMHC through the Center of Excellence for Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation for 6 years. She brings this experience and her cultural perspective to the work, trainings and reflective consultation services she provides for administrators, ECE providers, and IECMH/IECMHC professionals about Infant Mental Health, and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation.
Dawn's maternal clan is Ye'ii Dine'e Tachii'nii, born for Kiiya'aanii (paternal clan), and she is the baby of Asdzaa Naadleehi (Changing Woman – Diné female deity). Dawn is working to reclaim Navajo cultural practices alongside her family for continued healing and to carry forward for future generations.
