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• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference: A Model to Prevent Suspension and Expulsion in Early Care and EducationThe presentation will provide an example of a public/private funded program model for county-wide IECMHC. This presentation is intended for county or state leaders to see one example of the intentional braiding of IECMHC and Pyramid Model and the steps taken to implement a county-wide program for Early Care and Education providers. The presentation will include discussions on the following: (1) the design of the program; (2) the logic model; (3) the evaluation plan; (4) the data system; (5) funding streams; and (6) outcomes from 2018-2021. The Start Well Program is founded on the principles of equity. Children should have access to adults who are responsive to their individual needs and deliver culturally responsive practices which promote social and emotional development, prevent challenging behaviors, and identify early mental health needs. We know that when children present with challenging behaviors, they are communicating an unmet need or needs. Start Well uses the IECMHC process and Pyramid Model practices to ensure the adults working with children are confident and competent in identifying and supporting the needs of each child in their care, which will eliminate suspensions and expulsions and lead to a positive trajectory for school and life.EquityConsultation Practice
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): CoE Highlight State of the State, Community, Tribal Nation, and TerritoryPlenary session discussing approaches in equity and reflective supervision.WorkforceEquity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): Equity in IECMHCPlenary session on COVID-19 stress and trauma, racial aggression, bias, and why IECMHC is needed now more than ever.Equity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): Equity in Tribal NationsThis panel session will highlight IECMHC in Tribal Nations with presenters focusing on similarities, differences and successes, and challenges encountered in their work.Equity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): Healing Justice & IECMHC: Disrupting Bias & Promoting Racial Equity From the Inside-OutPlenary session on racial equity and IECMHC and the expansive equity lens.Equity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): IECMHC Equity Chats Competency 8 Systems Wide OrientationThe CoE has hosted an eight-part series of Equity Chats that have unpacked the revised IECMH Consultant Competencies to examine the consultant’s role in supporting equity in IECMHC. This final session in this series will focus on the System-Wide Orientation competency and provide examples of ways IECMH consultants can address issues of equity to disrupt bias and disparities, and improve child outcomes.Equity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): Leading with Equity and Anti-Racism in IECMHC from a Consultant Point of ViewA panel of IECMHC consultants will offer their experiences and insights into providing equity, diversity, inclusion (DEI), and anti-racism centered IECMHC to providers, caregivers, and programs. The panelists will describe how they built their own self-awareness. They will also discuss how they help consultees examine the impact of DEI, power, and privilege on child and adult behavior, and how that awareness makes IECMHC more effective.Equity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Plenary Session): Start with Equity Creating Equitable Systems for Children and FamiliesPlenary session on 14 ways to dismantle systemic racism in early care and education.Equity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Workshop Session): Colorado Model of ECMH Consultation Building Steps to EvidenceThis session uses adult learning principles to describe Colorado’s work on a high-quality statewide consultation model. The model aims to meet the needs of diverse children, families, and providers, and to be adopted by practitioners, delivered with fidelity, and evaluated. It will also include reference to the broad set of thought partners and intentional outreach including a national scan of what is working well, targeted core teams, workshops, focus groups and online surveys required to develop a high impact, efficacious and equitable model of consultation. As we move into 2022, we would like to share the progress we have made, the lessons learned, efforts to infuse equity, and our next steps in building evidence for the Colorado model in the hope it provides insight to other similarly positioned states and programsProgram StructureEvidence & Research
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Workshop Session): Developing a culturally responsive, anti racist, statewide IECMHC system: Centering the marginPolicy & FinancingEquity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Workshop Session): Developing Essential Activities of IECMHC: Workshop to Explore Equity in ActionA workshop featuring preliminary results from a consensus-building (Delphi) study on the essential activities of IECMHC. The study is designed not only to shed light on what consultants do, but on how they do it in a way that infuses equity and fosters positive relationships between and among consultees.Program StructureEquity
• Webinars and events2022 CoE Conference (Workshop Session): Enhancing the IECMHC’s Toolbox to Talk to Children About RaceIn the past two years, IECMHCs have had to expand their responsibilities to address the stressors of the COVID and racial pandemics. In particular, teachers and caregivers have had to have conversations with young children about the racial divide and race, which for some was something that they were unprepared or unsure of how to discuss with young children. Conversations about race should be a part of the IECMHC role and integrated under the foundational knowledge and culture competencies of the IECMHC. This presentation will incorporate an accumulation of lessons learned from serving as an IECMHC, teaching diversity classes, and reviewing current literature, to provide other IECMHCs with tools and resources on how to have developmentally appropriate conversations about race, with young children.EquityWorkforce

• 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.