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March 18, 2025
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Renée Layman Appointed as FAIMH President
Layman continues to advance toddler and early childhood psychological well being with service to Florida Affiliation for Toddler Psychological Well being.
Renée E. Layman, MS, LMHC, was lately appointed as President of Florida Affiliation for Toddler Psychological Well being (FAIMH) Board of Administrators. Layman beforehand served because the vice chairman, alongside Previous-President Dr. Harleen Hutchinson, in main the nonprofit with additional advancing toddler and early childhood psychological well being.
“As a kids’s psychological well being chief in her group, Renée has a legacy of selling and defending the psychological well being of youngsters. We look ahead to her stewardship and imaginative and prescient guiding the FAIMH Board of Administrators into 2025,” said FAIMH Government Director Dr. Christine Hughes.
Layman has lengthy served FAIMH, becoming a member of the board in 2018 and main the FAIMH Palm Seashore Chapter for a few years prior.
FAIMH strives to construct a group the place all kids in Florida will likely be nurtured, emotionally wholesome, and able to be taught, to develop, and to succeed in their full potential. FAIMH achieves this by supporting and strengthening the toddler and early childhood psychological well being workforce to higher serve the younger kids and households of Florida along with its native FAIMH Chapters.
Layman is a Licensed Psychological Well being Counselor with virtually thirty years of expertise in psychological well being. As President and Chief Government Officer for Heart for Youngster Counseling (CFCC) since 2013, she has spearheaded vital initiatives in baby and household psychological well being–particularly associated to trauma-informed care and the prevention, consciousness, and therapeutic of opposed childhood experiences (ACEs).
Layman’s management extends nicely past her work at CFCC. She is the previous co-chair of the FAIMH Palm Seashore and Martin County Chapter, persevering with to serve in a mentoring position for the present chairs. She is previous co-chair of the Management Palm Seashore County Interact program (2014-2016), volunteering with the group for greater than six years. She is the previous president of the Nonprofit Chamber of Palm Seashore County and continues to serve on their board to assist native nonprofits. She chairs PBC’s Delivery to 22 Trauma Delicate Neighborhood Leaders Schooling subcommittee. She can be on the Board of Administrators of the Florida Community for Youth and Household Providers, a not-for-profit statewide group representing greater than 30 businesses that serve homeless, runaway, and troubled youth ages six and older and their households.
Layman commented, ”I hope to proceed to advance toddler and early childhood psychological well being in Palm Seashore County and throughout Florida. The work of FAIMH immediately connects with Heart for Youngster Counseling’s; so, aligning efforts to concentrate on prevention and constructing capability, particularly in gentle of the youth psychological well being disaster, is crucial.”
In recognition of her work, Renée obtained the Ladies in Management Award (WILA) from Government Ladies of the Palm Seashores and Management Palm Seashore County’s President’s Award in 2021, was acknowledged as Palm Seashore County’s Nonprofit Government of the Yr in 2017, and obtained Delta Sigma Theta Sorority’s Ladies of Excellence: Well being & Wellness Award in 2011.
Layman has been a passionate advocate for baby and household psychological well being, bringing modern packages and companies for among the most urgent points dealing with weak kids and households in Palm Seashore County. Underneath her management, Heart for Youngster Counseling has grown to fill vital gaps in kids’s psychological well being in Palm Seashore County, utilizing a public well being method that focuses on prevention and early intervention. As a FAIMH board member, she works with leaders statewide to enhance the system of take care of infants and younger kids throughout Florida.
“Toddler and early childhood is on the basis of lifelong well being and wellness. FAIMH is working immediately with system professionals and organizations in order that they have efficient methods to assist infants and younger kids dealing with adversity and trauma. I serve to construct Florida’s capability to construct wholesome households and communities–for a more healthy future,” stated Layman.
Layman will lead the board with Adam Baptiste, MD, who’s getting into the position of vice chairman.
The FAIMH Board of Administrators consists of: Dr. Christine Hughes (Government Director), Renée Layman (President), Dr. Harleen Hutchinson (Fast Previous-President), Adam Baptiste, MD (Vice President), Stacey Blume, Charmian Miller (Treasurer), Amy Blechman, Douglas Brown, Maria José Horen, Dr. Maite Schenker, Julie Smythe, and Dr. Kristie Skoglund.
About Heart for Youngster Counseling:
Heart for Youngster Counseling has been constructing the muse for frolicsome, healthful, and hopeful residing for kids and households in Palm Seashore County since 1999. Its companies concentrate on stopping and therapeutic the results of opposed experiences and poisonous stress on kids, selling resiliency and wholesome household, college, and group relationships. www.centerforchildcounseling.org Twitter: @ChildCounselPBC Fb: @CenterforChildCounseling Instagram: @childcounselpbc
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