Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, part of Georgetown University’s Thrive Center

Module 2: Building a Mental-Health Specific Strategic Plan

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What this module covers

  • Describe the six steps to developing a mental-health specific strategic plan.
  • Identify resources available for conducting a program-wide assessment of the strengths and weakness of your current mental health consultation approach.
  • Make a plan for working with your program to develop, implement and maintain a mental health strategic plan.

In this module, you will learn a step-by-step process for developing, implementing, and maintaining a mental health-specific strategic plan for your program. Having a component of your strategic plan that specifically focuses on mental health will provide a “roadmap” for your program that outlines the goals and objectives for your program’s mental health services and approach. However, a strategic plan must be regularly reviewed and updated to be useful. Therefore we will share ideas for making sure that your strategic plan becomes a “living document” that, when regularly used to help plan activities and gauge success, can help you lead the way to more effective mental health consultation services.