The Family Center in Concord School District (CSD) is a district-wide early child development program focused on strengthening the home-school connection for Concord families with young children. With a boost from Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) funds, the program has expanded to four Concord locations.
Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) implementation within Pennsylvania’s overarching system of care partnership is creating numerous new opportunities for schools at the center of their communities. This strategy is generating great benefits for comprehensive approaches to address the consequential role of trauma in the lives of local students and their families in several school districts throughout Crawford and Lehigh counties.
Obesity is a growing problem that now affects one in five children in the United States. Local policies, living conditions, and environments influence daily choices that affect the health of our youth.
Massachusetts Project LAUNCH offers a comprehensive collection of tools and guidance for integrating early childhood mental health staff, including a family partner, into the pediatric primary care setting. The toolkit supports the building of a core team; promotion, prevention, and intervention focused services; the development of systems across the medical home; and evaluation and sustainability efforts.
Oklahoma Project LAUNCH collaborates with the Oklahoma Institute for Child Advocacy (OICA) to make great strides to promote awareness and the impact of infant mental health in their communities and across the state.
Wisconsin Project LAUNCH summarizes their work to promote the integration of behavioral health into primary care focused on five initiatives, including provider training, behavioral health integration pilot project/brief module development, joint release of information form, primary care provider consultation line and governor’s early care and education advisory council.
Wisconsin Project LAUNCH summarizes their work to promote developmental screening in 12 high-risk zip codes focused on five broad initiatives, including
parent focus groups and provider interviews, screening children through LAUNCH direct services, developmental screening trainings across early childhood settings, development of promotional materials, and partnering with other collaborative/systems change initiatives.
Cherokee Nation Illustrates ‘Serve and Return’ and the importance of everyday moments and experiences by watching as a young Cherokee father and his 20-month old daughter engage in responsive and individualized dialogue and interactions.
North Carolina Project LAUNCH provides guidance to pediatric primary care settings about the development of a family-centered model of care to better meet the needs of patients and their families.
Maryland Project LAUNCH shares a brief fact sheet about challenging behaviors in early childhood.
