Join us for the 2026 ZERO TO THREE LEARN Conference & HealthySteps Symposium

LEARN Conference 2025

2025 Virtual LEARN Course

We’re excited to (for the first time ever!) offer a full HealthySteps LEARN Virtual Course, bringing transformative learning straight to you, wherever you are.

The HealthySteps LEARN Virtual Course provides access to 5 of the 9 HealthySteps–specific sessions from the 2025 ZERO TO THREE LEARN Conference in Baltimore. These recorded sessions were carefully selected to reflect a wide range of interests, from clinical practice to implementation and long-term sustainability. Topics include postpartum depression, program implementation and evaluation, parallel process, engaging fathers, and value-based care. Additionally, you will get access to the LEARN Conference keynote address, all plenary sessions, and the policy panel.

Price: $280

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2025 HealthySteps Symposium

HealthySteps: Advancing Early Relational Health in Primary Care Pediatrics

Early relational health (ERH) is a Priority Outcome for HS sites, and they are well-positioned to promote ERH.  But what exactly does ERH mean? And in what ways do primary care pediatric providers and HS Specialists advance ERH? In partnership with the AAP and Erikson Institute (FAN), our annual symposium will take a deep dive into ERH, including a review of foundational concepts, how HS provides a continuum of care, and practical applications of effective strategies and interventions.

Speakers

• Ellie Erickson, MD, Duke University School of Medicine, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
• Dominique Charlot-Swilley, PhD, Thrive Center for Children, Families, and Communities at Georgetown University, Assistant Professor/Director of Provider Wellbeing
• Marie-Celeste Condon,PhD, Infant & Early Childhood Educator & Mental Health Specialist
• Linda Gilkerson, PhD,LSW, Erikson Institute, Professor

Learning Objectives

Attendees of this symposium will be able to:

• Describe how HealthySteps Specialists and practice staff promote ERH with families in primary care.
• Recognize the continuum of ERH interventions provided through the HS model.
• Practice the application of targeted interventions which elevate ERH concepts with families in primary care settings.
• Explore the meaning of Early Relational Health (ERH) and how caregivers and providers can find that meaning collaboratively.

2025 Posters

Assessing the Impact of HealthySteps on Provider Satisfaction in Oklahoma
Nicolle Moore, LMFT, IMH-E® VP, Molly Farley

Healthy Steps MGH Chelsea Program Outcomes
Rebecca Lambert, MD, Lynn Doxey, Maria Yolanda Parra

2025 HealthySteps Sessions

Identifying and Treating Postpartum Depression in Mothers of Young Children: HealthySteps in Miami Partners with the Healthy Start’s Moving Beyond Depression Program to Better Serve Mothers

This session focuses on the partnership between the University of Miami’s HealthySteps and Healthy Start/Moving Beyond Depression Programs. HealthySteps Specialists identify mothers experiencing depression, many of whom face barriers which impede their ability to access services. The evidence-based/grant funded program, Moving Beyond Depression, provides access to quality care.

Speakers

• Maite Schenker, University of Miami, Assistant Professor
• Connie Morrow, University of Miami, Program Director
• Isa Piloto-Baker, University of Miami, UM Pediatrics Director of Case Management and Healthy Start Program Manager

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Implementing Safe Baby Education Into Your HealthySteps Program: Preventing Infant Death

This session describes how the HealthySteps site has incorporated strategies to reduce the three leading causes of preventable infant death within our community. HealthySteps Specialists and practices will learn how to integrate additional education with their families during well-child visits.

Speakers

• Melissa Asencio, Healthy Start Coalition, Program Manager
• Ligia Vigo-Patron, Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County, HealthySteps Supervisor
• Rilee Wagner, Healthy Start Coalition of Hillsborough County, Lead HealthySteps Specialist

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Building a Healthier Future: A Three-Pronged Approach to HealthySteps Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability in Philadelphia

This session will highlight a three-pronged approach to implementing, evaluating, and sustaining the HealthySteps program in Philadelphia. By integrating implementation science, a mixed-methods evaluation, and advocacy for policy reform, the initiative aims to improve early childhood development, provider well-being, and family health, with promising early results.

Speakers

• Kali Hackett, PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Senior Project Manager
• Emma Golub, PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Policy Analyst
• Nora Ahern, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, HealthySteps Specialist

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Continuous Quality Improvement as a Critical Lever in Establishing HealthySteps at the Chickasaw Nation

This session will describe the evolution of continuous quality improvement (CQI) practices in the implementation of HealthySteps across multiple sites. Learners will be engaged through the use of examples from the perspectives of each clinic role and families.

Speakers

• Jennifer Jesse, Chickasaw Nation Public Health/Hofanti Chokma, Hofanti Chokma Program Manager
• Misty Boyd, Chickasaw Nation Public Health/Hofanti Chokma, Sr Public Health Psychologist

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Looking at the Parallel Process Through the Lens of HealthySteps

This session focuses on identifying one’s social location and the implementation of parallel process. Participants will list their relationship building skills that best serve historically marginalized families with young children. Participants will understand how the parallel process empowers oneself to encourage individuals and families to creatively solve their own problems. Group discussion will help participants identify biases that can perpetuate racism, oppression, and power over models that traditionally marginalized children and families experience.

Speakers

• Sara Kiehn, Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, HealthySteps Specialist
• Margaret McGaw, Children’s Home Society of North Carolina, HealthySteps Specialist

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Supporting Fathers at Their Children’s Primary Care Visits

A father’s health status has implications for himself and also for the health and well-being of his children. This session will focus on engaging fathers during pediatric primary care visits both to support their children’s health and development and to prioritize their own health and connection with the healthcare system.

Speakers

• Eva Johnson, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Assistant Professor
• Holly Pangrace, University Hospitals Rainbow Center for Women and Children, HealthySteps Specialist
• Kristin Cipolla, University Hospitals, HealthySteps Specialist

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HealthySteps and the FAST approach

Distilling principles and strategies of specialized evidence-based programs (Parent Child Interaction Therapy, Promoting First Relationships), the FAST-Early Childhood (FAST-E) program was developed by child clinical psychologists at Seattle Children’s Hospital to support early childhood mental health, in the context of family, community, and culture.

This session will share and reflect on how our HS team incorporates FAST concepts and strategies into our HS program to help break a caregiver’s cycle of low mood and inactivity, or worries and fear, that may get in the way of responsive parenting.

We will relate our experience with this approach, including the successes and challenges of initial engagement, motivation (setting aside time and space), and sustainability.

Speakers

• Mary Beth Callie PhD, CALLIE PEDIATRICS, Director of Integrated & Whole Person Care, HealthySteps
• Liz Denogean, LMSW, Callie Pediatrics, HealthySteps Specialist

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HealthySteps and Value-Based Care: How Evidence-Based Care Supports the Journey to Outcomes, Value, and Sustainability

Planning for HealthySteps sustainability in all practices is something that cannot be left to chance. Focusing on revenues and value-based care means program leaders need solutions for ongoing program support. This session will show how HealthySteps will increase pay-for-performance compensation while ensuring the proven superior outcomes for babies and families.

Speakers

• Warren Brodine, Health Management Associates, Inc., Managing Director, Delivery Systems
• Christina Altmayer, HMA, Senior Vice President

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Capturing Care in Context: Family-Centered Approaches to Data Collection for HealthySteps Quality Improvement and Evaluation

Ready to center and strengthen patient and family voice in your quality improvement and program evaluation activities?  In this session, we will review the community engagement continuum of emerging evidence-based practices and pragmatic approaches to data collection for program improvement that centers patient and family perspectives.

Speakers

• Sarah Ronis, UH Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital, Attending Physician
• Alissa Huth-Bocks, Wayne State University, Director, Merrill Palmer Skillman Institute
• Kimberly Burkhart, University Hospitals Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Clinical Psychologist/Associate Professor of Pediatrics

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