Vermont Project LAUNCH provides quarterly policy briefs from Building Bright Futures. Topics include bullying prevention, adverse effects of child neglect, and health and educational disparities in young children.
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NYC Project LAUNCH highlights and summarizes work to support early childhood mental health consultation in early care and education, and provides recommendations for future efforts in these areas.
Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Early Care and Education | Early Childhood
Describes innovative strategies that the six Project LAUNCH grantees funded from 2010-2015 used to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.
Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Capacity Building/Workforce Development | Developmentally Appropriate | Disparities/Disproportionalities | Early Care and Education | Early Childhood | Evaluation | Evidence Based/Informed | Family Strengthening/Family Engagement | Home Visiting | Integration of Behavioral Health into Primary Care | Parent Skills Training | Partnership | Policy | Resource Leveraging | Screening and Assessment | Social and Emotional Well-Being | Substance Use Prevention | Sustainability | System Change
Provides national data showing how health care, family, and community factors are related to mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders in early childhood. Findings highlight specific factors that could be addressed through efforts at national, state and local levels.
Policy | Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Early Care and Education | Education | Social and Emotional Well-Being
Describes Colorado's work to promote early childhood social and emotional development through the use of mental health consultants in schools and child care programs.
Early Childhood | Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Early Care and Education | Education | Social and Emotional Well-Being
Considers the role of educational attainment, degree type (e.g., concentration or major in early childhood or a related field), years of experience, and training. The brief concludes with implications for future research, as well as for policy and practice.
Early Childhood | Behavioral Health/Mental Health | Early Care and Education | Education | Social and Emotional Well-Being
Discusses the science of early childhood development, the impact of early adversity on children’s development, and the effectiveness of early childhood programs, among other topics.
Early Care and Education | Behavioral Health/Mental Health
Offers a series of tutorials designed to enhance skills and knowledge about how to implement effective mental health consultation in community-based programs.
Early Care and Education | Education | Behavioral Health/Mental Health
Provides an overview of ECMHC, how it can support the implementation of the Pyramid Model, and the policy issues that arise when administrators seek to integrate these two approaches at the state and local levels.
Early Care and Education | Behavioral Health/Mental Health | System Change
Provides a description of the emerging evidence base that many of the beliefs and much of the current body of knowledge about consultation is grounded in literature and the experiences of mental health and early care and education (ECE) providers, educators, and other experts (i.e., practice-base...
Early Care and Education | Education | Behavioral Health/Mental Health
