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• ReportArizona’s Smart Support Evaluation Report: The First Four YearsEvidence & ResearchProgram StructureExecutive Summary
• ReportArkansas Project PLAY Evaluation Update 2014Evidence & ResearchProgram Structure
• GuideBridging Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation to Direct Mental Health ServicesSupporting successful referrals is one of the core skill areas of mental health consultation. Mental health consultants are uniquely positioned to bridge consultees to needed direct mental health services. As infant and early childhood mental health professionals, consultants are aware of the powerful impact of the early years to a child’s healthy development. The strategies in this resource brief help to ensure a successful referral.Consultation PracticeWorkforce
• Webinars and eventsBuilding a Successful Early Mental Health Consultation ProgramPlease join us for a brief overview of DC's Healthy Futures program Part 1: Building the Foundation Part 2: Creating Positive Partnerships Part 3: Expanding without Drifting Part 4: TestimonialsPolicy & Financing
• Webinars and eventsBuilding a theory-driven evaluation of IECMHC: CoE Tips and ToolsThis workshop presentation will feature research and evaluation resources from the Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (CoE for IECMHC), covering topics such as writing an IECMHC evaluation plan and measuring IECMHC. The workshop will show how a theory-driven evaluation can strengthen the existing evidence base and help shape future research and evaluation questions.Evidence & Research
• HandoutCalming Strategies for Adults and ChildrenIn partnership with Illuminate Colorado and the University of California, San Francisco’s Child Trauma Research Program, the Thrive Center developed a set of handouts tailored for early care and education (ECE) settings. These handouts, available in English and Spanish, explore substance use and childhood trauma, and how ECE professionals can support the children and families they serve who are affected by these challenges. IECMH Consultants can share these short, colorful resources with their consultees to address these sensitive topics in an accessible, compassionate way. This specific handout provides helpful calming strategies for adults and children.Child Development & BehaviorSpanish
• GuideCentering Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Children, Families, and CommunitiesAsian 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.EquityConsultation Practice
• Webinars and eventsCentering Families and Children Who Are Racially, Culturally and Linguistically DiverseThis workshop will provide information on how to interact, partner with, and value families and children who are culturally, racially, and linguistically diverse. Strategies will include (a) how to use self-assessment to improve diverse classroom experiences, (b) how to reach families where there is a perception of apathy, and (c) interactive strategies that deepen awareness and knowledge and improve skills.Equity
• GuideCentering Latin American Children, Families and CommunitiesLatin 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.EquityConsultation Practice
• GuideCentering Native American Children, Families, and CommunitiesNative 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.EquityConsultation Practice
• ReportCentering Racial Equity: Design Considerations for Oregon’s Statewide Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) ProgramEquityPolicy & Financing
• Webinars and eventsChallenging Behaviors and Beyond Webinar SeriesChild Development & BehaviorConsultation Practice

• Programs and ModelsThe nuts and bolts of IECMHC service delivery and IECMHC program infrastructure: what you provide, to whom, where, and how, and how to pull it all together.
• WorkforceThe competencies, training, supervision, mentoring, and quality assurance systems needed to build a strong IECMHC workforce.
• EquityStrategies and information to help IECMHC programs and consultants reduce disparities and promote effective, nurturing caregiving for all children.
• Research and EvaluationThe research base for IECMHC and guidance on developing and effectively utilizing theories of change, logic models, evaluation plans, and other research tools to measure IECMHC program fidelity and impact.
• Policy and FinancingTools and knowledge to support financing and sustaining IECMHC efforts, including key policies/initiatives, creative funding streams, and tips for strategic communication.

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• Classroom ideas that hold big feelingsTeachers can use these classroom ideas right away. They cover emotions, friendship, problem solving, and handling disappointment.
• The IMH specialist suiteWhat infant mental health work is, what an IMH specialist does, and where to find specialized training.
• Five actions on maternal depressionFive actions for programs: identify families, train staff, use reflective supervision, connect families to care, and reduce stigma. Take them in order. The sequence is the intervention.