Growing Minds

The goal of Growing Minds is to support adults in nurturing young children’s social and emotional development and to enhance the quality of care for children from birth through five years old across settings. 

Growing Minds offers virtual-based Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH) support for providers who care for infants and young children. This is a non-emergency service for providers to receive guidance on their practice or to ask questions about a specific concern in their professional setting.

The service will target any professional working with young children not currently able to access IECMH Consultation, including Family, Friend and Neighbor care, home visiting, early intervention, medical or social service providers. 

Examples of support available:

  • Working with providers to maintain children in their care settings with support as needed. 
  • Facilitate early childhood development through changes in care environments to enable more children to thrive. 
  • Provide early childhood providers with strategies to improve social and emotional development. 
  • Address problematic social and emotional behaviors of young children by providing intervention strategies. 
  • Work with HMG-AK to refer families and children requiring more intensive intervention services to high-quality assessment and clinical intervention services. 

Get connected today!


Call Help Me Grow Alaska and ask to be connected to Growing Minds.

1-833-HMG-ALASKA | 1-833-464-2527


You can also click the button below to complete a Growing Minds Intake Form.

Intake Request

Meet your Consultant

Toni Rae Osiecki, CCC-SLP

Toni Rae brings over 12 years of experience as a speech-language pathologist in Alaska.  She has focused her professional development in early intervention, early childhood learning, and Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH). Her work spans multiple regions of the state, including Southcentral Alaska, the Kenai Peninsula, the Aleutians, Kodiak, and the Yukon–Kuskokwim area.

Since 2019, Toni Rae has held an endorsement as an Infant Family Specialist through the Alaska Association for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (AKAIMH) and currently serves on the AKAIMH Board of Directors. Throughout her career, she has traveled to nearly 50 remote villages, developing a deep appreciation for the resilience, cultural strengths, and unique needs of rural and remote communities across Alaska.

In addition to her consultation work, Toni Rae operates a private practice in the Anchorage area, providing mobile, home-based and center-based speech therapy services. She has a deep love for home visiting and relationship-based practice and is passionate about supporting other providers in doing meaningful, sustainable work. Toni Rae is excited to partner with Growing Minds through this new pilot program to further expand IECMH Consultation and strengthen the early childhood workforce statewide.

The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) provided financial support for this publication. The award totaled $3,057,637. The contents are those of the author and may not reflect the policies of HRSA, HHS, or the U.S. Government.