5 Essential Elements of Effective Professional Development for Mental Health Consultants

This is a comprehensive report highlighting the essential elements required for effective professional development in IECMHC, presented in a practical checklist format.
Primary Focus Area: Workforce Development
Resource Type: Resource Briefs

Financing Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: Frequently Asked Questions

This brief answers some frequently asked questions about funding for infant and early childhood mental health consultation, which can be a complex and thorny issue. The questions address important topics like state financing, Medicaid support, how to request funding for IECMHC.
Primary Focus Area: Financing
Resource Type: Policy/Issue Briefs

Cultivating Connection to Promote Healing and Well-being in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

Native American children, families, and communities need and deserve opportunities that cultivate connectedness and belonging to honor their strengths and to support their healing and well-being, given the tenuous and traumatic history endured through centuries of cultural erasure from colonization and resulting socioeconomic challenges experienced by Native American people today. Such connectedness and belonging is fostered through deeply rooted environmental, community, family, intergenerational, and spiritual connections. Explore this resource to learn promising practices aligned with the Revised IECMHC Competencies to foster connection to promote healing and well-being for Native American children, families, and communities. See the webinar, Centering Native American Children, Families, and Communities: Cultivating Connection to Promote Healing and Well-being through Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation that features a panel discussion on the importance of fostering connectedness and belonging to support healing and well-being for IECMH consultants, supervisors, and leaders working with Native American children, families, and communities.
Primary Focus Area: Tribal Communities
Resource Type: Toolkits/In-Depth Implementation Guidance

Centering Latin American Children, Families, and Communities through an Anti-Racist, Trauma-Informed, and Culturally-Responsive Lens in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

Latin American children and families represent diverse histories, lived experience, and unique needs and strengths. The tenets of anti-racist, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive practice applied to infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) are paramount to nurturing these unique needs and strengths. Explore this resource to learn promising practices aligned with the Revised IECMHC Competencies to improve equity and care for Latin American children, families, and communities. See the webinar, Centering Latin American children, families, and communities through an anti-racist, trauma-informed, and culturally-responsive lens in IECMHC, that features a panel discussion on the importance of anti-racist, trauma-informed, and culturally-responsive practices for IECMH consultants, supervisors, and leaders working with Latin American children, families, and communities.
Primary Focus Area: Latinx
Resource Type: Toolkits/In-Depth Implementation Guidance

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Cost Calculator

This tool, from ZERO TO THREE, is designed to help mental health professionals, early childhood educators, program leaders and policymakers plan and budget for mental health consultation services. The resource features customizable cost estimates, scenario planning, and enhanced collaboration. The IECMHC Cost Calculator helps professionals plan effectively and ensure that program resources are directed to where they are needed most.
Primary Focus Area: Financing
Resource Type: Toolkits/In-Depth Implementation Guidance

Centering Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children, Families, and Communities to Combat Racial Bias and Promote Connection and Belonging in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander children and families need – and deserve – more opportunities to feel a sense of safety, connectedness, and belonging. These values are rooted in AANHPI families’ strengths and assets of community, family, and cultural pride. This resource offers strength-based strategies for IECMH consultants and programs to foster connection and belonging for AANHPI children and families amid heightened anti-Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander hate, a global pandemic, and increasing socioeconomic challenges. Explore this resource to learn promising practices aligned with the Revised IECMHC Competencies to build safety, connectedness, and belonging for AANHPI children and families. See the webinar, Centering Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children and Families to Combat Racial Bias and Promote Connection & Belonging in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation that features a panel discussion on the importance of combating anti-AANHPI bias and promoting connection & belonging for IECMH consultants, supervisors, and leaders working with AANHPI children, families, and communities.
Primary Focus Area: Asian American/Pacific Islander
Resource Type: Training Guides/Guidance

Reflection Guide for Empirical Articles about IECMHC

Through a series of checklist-style reflection questions, this brief resource guides readers in best practices for interpreting research studies about IECMHC. You will be empowered to understand the strengths, weaknesses, main points, and implications of various empirical articles and, ultimately, apply the findings to your own work.
Primary Focus Area: Evaluation Design
Resource Type: Resource Briefs

Webinar: Centering Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children and Families to Combat Racial Bias and Promote Connection and Belonging in IECMHC

This is the third in the series of resources to support infant and early childhood mental health consultants and supervisors to strengthen cultural responsiveness in IECMHC for children and families in Tribal, African American, Latine, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander communities (AANHPI). This third resource focuses on the importance of combating anti-AANHPI bias and promoting connection & belonging for IECMH consultants, supervisors, and leaders working with AANHPI children, families, and communities.
Primary Focus Area: Asian American/Pacific Islander
Resource Type: Online Trainings/Tutorials/Webinars

Webinar: Centering Latin American children, families, and communities through an anti-racist, trauma-informed, and culturally-responsive lens in IECMHC

This is the second in the series of resources to support infant and early childhood mental health consultants and supervisors to strengthen cultural responsiveness in IECMHC for children and families in Tribal, African American, Latin American, and Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. This resource focuses on the importance of anti-racist, trauma-informed, and culturally-responsive practices for IECMH consultants, supervisors, and leaders working with Latin American children, families, and communities.
Primary Focus Area: Latinx
Resource Type: Online Trainings/Tutorials/Webinars

Mental Health in IECMHC: Why Mental Health Training is Essential to IECMH Consultants

This brief provides an overview of important mental health concepts and psychological processes that IECMH consultants employ to understand, support, and build capacity in consultees.s
Primary Focus Area: MHC Skills/Attributes
Resource Type: Resource Briefs