Mental & Emotional Health Services

Sometimes children go through emotional, social and personal struggles that are difficult to understand and even harder to overcome without support. One of the many services the program provides to help ensure your child's success in the classroom is the support offered through the program's Mental Health Specialists. What services will be provided for my child and family? There are routine services that the Mental Health Specialist completes as a requirement of the program. The following supports fall under this category:

Staff training, education and consultation
An observation of each classroom
Advocacy and resource referral to services in the community
Providing parenting education

The following assistance is implemented by request:

Providing written information on requested topics
Completing an individual observation of a child with parental/guardian consent
Participation in behavior plan meetings
Consultation to teachers regarding situations that are challenging for them
Crisis intervention

Our Mental Health Specialists have provided a comprehensive list of resources to aid parents, families and classroom staff in the support of the goals set by Head Start and ECEAP.

The Devereux Early Childhood Initiative

http://www.devereux.org/site/PageServer?pagename=deci_preschool_vault

Decisions About Discipline

http://www.talaris.org/research/decisions-about-discipline/

Common Sense Media (Helping your child navigate today's media.)

http://www.commonsensemedia.org/grade-pre-k

Milestones (How to evaluate your child's physical and developmental growth.)

http://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/index.html

Talking About Touching (Help keeping your children safe)

http://www.cfchildren.org/programs/tat/prek/

Early Childhood Mental Health

http://www.ecmhc.org/materials_families.html