Dear WAIMH members,
Only 11 weeks to the 14th WAIMH World Congress in Edinburgh June 14-18, 2014. Congress preparations have proceeded very well with the Local Organizing Committee and the Conference Secretariat In-Conference. We are going to have an excellent scientific program, great plenary speakers, good social programme, warm «baby people» atmosphere and colleagues from all over the world to share experiences, new ideas and details of our daily work. At the moment more than 1200 participants have registered to the Congress.
Sponsor a Delegate Programme
Professor Astrid Berg and the Local Organizing Committee of the WAIMH 2012 World Congress in Cape Town created a Sponsor a Delegate Programme, which offered sponsorships to infant mental health professionals from developing countries with the help of donations from organizations, companies and individual WAIMH members.
Currently many countries around the world are in a very difficult economic situation. Colleagues from these countries have contacted the WAIMH Central Office expressing severe difficulties in funding their participation.
Firstly WAIMH decided to offer a special participation fee category to countries in the World Bank categories low, middle and upper middle. Secondly, we are launching a new Sponsor a Delegate Programme, in which you all can participate by donating money. We are wishing to receive donations from individual infant mental health professionals, our Affiliate Associations and from your departments and clinics. Our colleagues from developing countries (World Bank classifications low – upper middle) can apply for sponsorship, which will cover their participation fee, gala dinner and accommodation for two nights. The local organizing committee, lead by Professor Jane Barlow, will set up a subcommittee to make the decisions according to applications. More information and all materials will be available at the congress website www.waimhcongress.org as well as our own website www.waimh. org. Please participate in the Sponsor a Delegate Programme and help us to support delegates from developing countries to participate – every donation counts!
WAIMH membership and Infant Mental Health Journal
Please consider joining WAIMH if you are not a member or remember to renew your WAIMH membership for the year 2014 if you haven´t already done so. The Professional membership rate is $75.00 annually and Student membership $45.00.
Members (professional and student members) may purchase the Infant Mental Health Journal at a very reduced subscription rate: $50 (USA), $52.50 (Canada, including $2.50 tax), or $62.50 (international orders). The journal is a remarkable membership benefit including also the online journal access. Wiley has also developed a new type of subscriptions, which is the online option $40.00 worldwide.
Because the goal of WAIMH is to extend influence into countries where infant mental health services have not yet developed and where there is a lack of knowledge, WAIMH has Beacon Club scholarships to offer by application to colleagues in developing countries. A Beacon Club scholarship includes a yearly WAIMH membership and the subscription of Infant Mental Health Journal. The application materials are available on our website.
Social media
WAIMH is planning the way of being present in the social media. We will be inviting you all into the network this summer. We believe that the goals of WAIMH can be further improved by attendance in the modern channels, where most of you are already present, the Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.
WAIMH is planning the way of being present in the social media. We will be inviting you all into the network this summer. We believe that the goals of WAIMH can be further improved by attendance in the modern channels, where most of you are already present, the Facebook, Twitter and You Tube.
Authors
Kaukonen, Pälvi,
Executive Director,
ed@waimh.org,
Puura, Kaija,
Associate Executive Director,
congress@waimh.
Sorsa, Minna,
Administrative Assistant,
office@waimh.org
Tampere, Finland
