Training Institutes 2012 - National Technical Assistance Center for ...

TARGETED INSTITUTE #15 9:30 AM SUNDAY • SUN 1-2-3
Providing Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Training Institutes 2012
TARGETED INSTITUTES
OBJECTIVES—Participants will learn:
1. To identify the key components of an effective, high-quality early childhood mental health (ECMH)
consultation framework
2. To describe national efforts to integrate and sustain ECMH consultation practices across child-serving systems such
as primary care, home visitation, and child welfare programs
3. To apply practical tips and tools to support ECMH consultation efforts
4. To identify action steps for integrating new information into local mental health promotion, prevention, and
intervention efforts
This Targeted Institute will focus on the practice of ECMH consultation and is designed to provide the most up-to-date
information about its implementation. Every day there are infants struggling to attach to a primary caregiver, toddlers
having difficulty calming, and preschoolers entering school unprepared to learn due to social and emotional challenges.
Young children need access to services that promote social emotional health early, before problems escalate and
diagnosis and tertiary services are necessary. Early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) is a promising
practice that supports parents and caregivers to nurture the mental wellness of infants and young children within natural,
community settings.
Faculty will highlight the core elements necessary to ensure the quality adaptation of ECMHC from venue to venue to
strengthen the continuum of care for infants, young children, and their families across primary care, home visitation,
early care and education, and child welfare services. When used with high fidelity to best practices, ECMHC services
can be an important component of a system of care.
The information and strategies highlighted in this session are based on research completed by the Georgetown
University Center for Child and Human Development and will include strategies from a report titled, What Works? A
Study of Effective Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Programs, as well as resources and tools developed
through the Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation. In addition, the session information will be guided
by the experiences of several state efforts to integrate ECMHC across infant and early childhood settings as well as
participant’s stories.
Specific topics to be covered include:
• Information on how ECMHC can be integrated within a public health framework and across infant and early
childhood settings using a variety of approaches and funding sources
• Key components of quality ECMHC including infrastructure, consultant skills, quality services, sustainable funding,
and use of data
• The ten principles inherent to quality ECMHC
Peer-to-peer small group discussions will be used to further explore ECMHC services and supports.
The faculty team will include the perspectives of a national policy expert, a national researcher, and a state-level
administrator/consultant.
MODERATOR/PRESENTER: Roxane Kaufmann, M.A., Director of Early Childhood Policy, National Technical
Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development,
Washington, DC
Mary Mackrain, M.Ed, Early Childhood Consultant, Michigan Department of Community Health, Mental Health
Services to Children and Families, Birmingham, MI
Deborah Perry, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor, Georgetown University Center for Child and Human
Development, Washington, DC
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