Title: Facilitating Attuned Interaction (FAN) Training
Date(s): June 16th & June 17th, 2025 (both days are required)
Time: 8:30am - 3:30pm CST/ 9:30 - 4:30pm EST each day
Description: This is a training for Child Welfare workers and Foster Parents. Facilitating Attuned Interactions is a model from the Erikson Institute that promotes self-awareness of providers and increased attunement to caregivers that results in improved professional/parent relationships and improved service recipient outcomes. FAN has been a core framework for pediatricians, mental health clinicians, home visitors, and child welfare professionals across the US. The model emphasizes slowing down interactions with service recipients to increase focus on relationships, which has been shown through research to decrease the amount of time for families to reach their identified goals. FAN is a huge asset to a number of TN's workforce sectors, and we're so excited to bring this opportunity to child welfare.
*Both days (2) must be attended in entireity to recieve a certificate.
*FAN will not allow any recording of the training. No recording will be allowed or provided.
Presenters: Alison D. Peak, LCSW, IMH-E® & Dr. Diana Morelen
Alison D. Peak, LCSW, IMH-E®
Alison D. Peak, LCSW, IMH-E® has spent the majority of her career dedicated to two primary passions: integrated behavioral health services in primary care settings and Infant Mental Health. Alison has an MSW from the University of Michigan with an emphasis in Interpersonal Practice with Children and Youth and two post-graduate certificates: Integrated Behavioral Health in Primary Care Settings and Pediatric Integrated Behavioral Health. Alison is also privileged to be a member of the 2020-2022 class of ZERO TO THREE Fellows. Alison collaborates across Tennessee and nationally to build programs that are responsive to gaps within the infant and early childhood mental health service delivery system.
Dr. Diana Morelen
Dr. Diana Morelen is an associate professor in the Department of Psychology at East Tennessee State University, a licensed clinical psychologist with a specialization in perinatal and infant mental health and is the associate director of training implementation and dissemination for the Ballad and ETSU Strong BRAIN (Building Resilience through ACEs-Informed Networking) Institute. Dr. Morelen also serves as a regional lead reflective consultant for Tennessee’s Infant Mental Health Association and has served on the board of Postpartum Support International-TN. Dr. Morelen is a clinical scientist committed to breaking the intergenerational transmission of trauma, adversity, and mental illness through evidence-based prevention and intervention programs. Dr. Morelen’s work uses a trauma-informed, relationship-based, and diversity-informed approach to promote resilience from the top down (e.g., systems-level change) as well as the bottom up (e.g., community-based infant mental health programming).