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Honoring Lifelong Baby Champions
The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes individuals who have made substantive contributions of national or international significance to improving the lives of infants, toddlers and their families. Award recipients are individuals whose research, practice, teaching or advocacy has had a demonstrable impact on very young children and those who care for them.
2024 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner
Karol Wilson’s journey in Infant Mental Health began in 1992 with an internship at the Children’s Center in Detroit, MI. She later supervised the Special Beginnings Infant Mental Health Program at the Children’s Center. Her extensive experience includes providing training on attachment, infant mental health, diversity and addressing challenging conversations with parents.
Karol has served as an Infant Mental Health Specialist in Grand Rapids and as an Intake Specialist in the Healthy Start Program at St. Joseph Mercy. She was one of the first Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH) Diversity Fellows and the first African American to achieve endorsement as an Infant Mental Health Mentor. Additionally, she was honored with the Selma Fraiberg Award in 2019.
Most recently, she has served as co-editor of ZERO TO THREE’s newly released book, Honoring Voices Within Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health: Relationship-Based Stories From the Field, which examines relationship-based practice within various contexts, family structures and cultures. She has co-authored four published articles and contributed to two chapters in the book, Therapeutic Cultural Routines to Build Family Relationships: Talk, Touch and Listen While Combing Hair.
Lifetime Achievement Award Past Recipients
