Agency Trainings

Help members of your organization become Certified Educators of Infant Massage!

Train your whole team!

Anyone can become a Certified Educator of Infant Massage (CEIM) through our organization. But if you’re a member of an agency that would like to promote nurturing touch, we offer special contracts to train multiple representatives from your organization.

Read on for more info!

Infant Massage USA Trainings are the Gold-Standard 

Our complete 28-hour trainings are led by Certified Infant Massage USA Educators with years of experience who are certified as International Trainers by the International Association of Infant Massage in Sweden in a two-year training process. Our International Trainers teach your staff to be Infant Massage Educators, who teach families to massage their own babies and use dolls to demonstrate strokes and positioning..

Our trainings are interactive, in-depth, research-based, and cover home visits and one-on-one teaching. Included in the complete four-day training is information about infant communication and needs, special needs, working with drug-exposed babies and babies born early, and adjusting the massage for older children. Each training includes a live parent-baby class and a chance for each participant to teach families themselves. A follow-up written assignment and practicum (teaching five parents to massage their baby), earns certification as a Certified Educator of Infant Massage.

The Infant Massage USA Training is designed for early intervention, home visitors, parent educators, and health professionals who work with families, in hospitals, and as parenting consultants. It is recognized for CEUs for Nurses, OTs, PTs, Lactation Consultants, Doulas, Massage Therapists, Child Birth Educators, Child Life Specialists and more.

There are several ways to train your team!

Join a Public Training

You can send team members to an Infant Massage USA Certification Training. Find a list of upcoming trainings at Infant Massage USA Trainings.  Infant Massage USA delivers the same interactive 28 hour training In-Person or Live-Streamed online.  

Find trainings around the world by going to our international website: International Association of Infant Massage

Infant Massage USA Trainers offer a 10% discount for groups of 3 or more participants who register together. The Early Bird Discount can bring your training costs down to $693 per participant when you register three or more team members, three or more weeks before the training. The training fee includes all the infant massage reading materials, and a year-long IMUSA membership for each participant.  

Participants will each need a life-size baby doll to learn and teach on. Dolls may be purchased through the Infant Massage USA Store or brought to the training. 

Set Up a Private Training for Your Team

You can also set up a Private Training in your center for your own team members. You can also host a training and invite staff from other organizations in your area.. 

The IAIM International Trainer will travel to your site, present and guide the four-day training, and support your team in developing an infant massage program for the families you work with. 

A private training can provide substantial savings over paying overtime, travel and lodging expenses for staff members. The costs for training each person go down after 12 (and up to 20) participants, but many agencies will train even a small staff locally because of the convenience, reduction of stress, and reduced travel expenses for their team.

How to Set up a Private Infant Massage Training for Your Staff

Choose a trainer from our Infant Massage USA Trainer List. Contact the Trainer for information about setting up a training using their personal contact button. If you would like Infant Massage USA to refer an appropriate trainer to you, contact Infant Massage USA and tell them what state you want to train in and some proposed dates. Your Trainer will work out a plan with you that meets the needs of your organization, propose available dates, sign an agreement with you, and provide you with a detailed invoice. 

What the Organization Provides

  • A venue for the training at your Center or nearby with a monitor or projector, tables and chairs, and other training needs.

  • 6-8 parents and babies for a three-day, one-hour parent-baby class.  

  • Healthy beverages and snacks for the participants to help them be focussed and involved

  • Set dates and sign a contract, and pay a deposit to guarantee the training.

  • Pay a training materials fee for each participant. Materials will be shipped or brought to the training. 

  • Order 20 inch flexible baby dolls for the participants.

  • Pay a $6,200 Training Fee and the cost of the Trainer’s travel, stay and meals.

Your Trainer Will…

  • Support you in the set-up for the training, provide a written contract, and fill out any paperwork required by your agency. 

  • Order materials for the training.

  • Provide the complete four-day international training to your staff. In a private training, the Trainer will focus on meeting the specific needs of your staff and clients.

  • Provide follow-up materials and support for your agency and participants, including CEU information.

  • Pay the IMUSA student membership for one year for each participant. Renewal is optional and can be done by either the participant or the agency. . 

  • Receive and process certification packets from each student, and provide certificates at the successful completion of the certification process. 

Develop an Infant Massage Program for Your Families

Your Trainer, whether you train privately or at a public training, can support you as you integrate infant massage into the curriculum that you already use with families. 

“Don’t think of infant massage as another thing you’ve got to teach families. Think of it as a tool you can to use to connect parents with their babies, to get them in touch with, and fulfilling, their babies’ needs. It is a deep and heartfelt way for families to communicate. While it rarely works to just talk to families about connecting with their baby more, Infant Massage bypasses the brain and goes straight to the heart for both parents and babies.”

- IMUSA Trainer Jody Wright to her students

“Infant Massage is the most satisfying work I have ever done. One of the Early Hard Start staff people I consult with told me: ‘It is the most perfect thing to accomplish all our goals. It does everything we are hoping for.’  Infant massage gets people to focus on what’s going on with their baby. All the talk, all the hours we spend with families, yet infant massage just does it so quickly.”

- Home visitor, Training student