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Mental Health: Topics

 
 

Program Planning, Design & Management

Find resources that offer guidance on how to help design and manage mental health services, and coordinate services with community mental health agencies.

Program Planning, Design and Management for Quality Mental Health Services
 

Early Identification of Children’s Needs

Learn how to help programs identify mental health needs throughout the screening and assessment processes.

Early Identification of Children's Mental Health Needs
 

Resources & Support for Families

Explore resources that teach working parents how to appropriately respond to their child’s behavior. This resource also offers ideas on how to strengthen supportive family environments and address individual and familial mental health issues.

Resources and Support for Families
 

Special Help for Children’s Individualized Needs

Examine resources for coordinating and implementing program practices that are responsive to the behavioral and mental health concerns of a child or group of children.

Special Help for Children's Individualized Mental Health Needs
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Featured Resources

Center for Effective Mental Health Consultation

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The Office of Head Start is pleased to announce the launch of a new website devoted to promoting effective mental health consultation to children, families and staff in Early Head Start and Head Start programs across the country.

 

New Tutorial to Help Recognize and Address Trauma

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A sixth online tutorial for mental health consultants working in programs serving young children was recently added to the ECMHC Best Practice Tutorial series: Recognizing and Addressing Trauma in Infants, Young Children, and their Families. This resource explains the latest research on types of trauma, its impact on young children, and the signs and symptoms of trauma in infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

 

Early Childhood Mental Health in Early Head Start and Head Start: View On-Demand Webcast

Early Childhood Mental Health in Early Head Start and Head Start: View On-Demand Webcast

Discover the importance of relationships to a child's development and explore resources that help programs improve mental health services.

 

Tools and Resources

Mental Health Links