Early Childhood Mental Health – funded by The Mental Health and Recovery Services Board
The Early Childhood Mental
program infuses early childhood mental health principles and best practices into
an early childhood education setting. The program integrates early childhood
mental health principles and practices with our existing behavioral health
treatment for families in recovery.
Best practices suggest that to achieve effective results, treatment should involve both the child and their caregivers directly. Services include initial screening and assessment of social, emotional and behavioral concerns, diagnostic classification, early intervention strategies including mental health consultation in our centered-based early childhood setting, and treatment strategies including relationship-based, dyadic, parent-child therapy; specialized day treatment such as individual play therapy.
Targeted population are children between the ages of 0 to 5 years of age who are at risk of serious social, emotional and behavioral problems enrolled in the Family and Child Development Center and The Crossroads Center.