Infant Early Childhood Outreach Slides
Would you like to share about Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health as part of your work? Feel free to use this PowerPoint Presentation as a guide! If you do use the presentation to share, would you let SCIMHA know? We are really interested in how far and wide our message spreads!
See thumbnails of the presentation slides below.
Are you a Home Visitor who is interested in seeking Endorsement? Check out this webinar to learn more!
IECMH Endorsement Overview for Home Visitors
Recorded January 16, 2019
There's no such thing as a baby: What policymakers should know about early childhood mental health
Jordana Ash, Early Childhood Mental Health Director in the Office of Early Childhood, part of the Colorado Department of Human Services, talks about brain development, resilience on this podcast, and what she wishes health care providers and policymakers knew about early childhood mental health.
Recorded January 18, 2019
SC Programs and Services
ABC Quality: The ABC Quality standards for child care programs focus largely on practices and policies that promote relationship-based care that promotes social-emotional health
A Child's Haven: Therapeutic Child Care; organization that treats children with developmental delays as a result of limited resources, abuse, or neglect, and provides support and education for both the child and their families.
BabyNet: BabyNet is South Carolina’s interagency early intervention system for infants and toddlers under three years of age with developmental delays, or who have conditions associated with developmental delays.
Children's Place: Therapeutic Child Care; Mission - to protect, heal, and strengthen children and families from the impact of trauma in their lives through education, treatment and prevention services.
Children's Trust: The only statewide organization focused on the prevention of child abuse, neglect and injury. Offers the "Strengthening Families" and "Triple P" parenting interventions.
Chrysalis Center: Behavioral Health Services including Family Therapy
Dee Norton Children’s Advocacy Center: A comprehensive abuse prevention, treatment, and advocacy center serving the lowcountry of South Carolina.
Family Connections: Making connections, raising awareness, and promoting inclusion for those with disabilities and special healthcare needs.
First Steps: Helps young children prepare for school through programs that provide early intervention, strengthen families, improve children’s health and well-being, increase the quality of early care and education, and help transition rising kindergarteners into school.
Help Me Grow: A program that links families to existing, community-based resources and services for children at-risk for developmental, behavioral, or learning problems.
MUSC Boeing Center For Children's Wellness: The MUSC Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness addresses children’s health and development from birth through adolescence.
Nurse Family Partnership: A home visiting model of parent support offered through SC Department of Health and Environmental Control
Parent Child Interaction Therapy: A clinic-based therapy program for children 2-7 years old with conduct disorder; offered through the SC Department of Mental Health, MUSC, and USC School of Medicine
Phoenix Center: Therapeutic Child Care; Mission - to assist the citizens of Greenville County and the surrounding area in the prevention, treatment and recovery from substance use disorders by offering effective and affordable services.
Project BEST: An MUSC initiative offering trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy which is designed to treat children and youth who are victims of sexual abuse or who have been exposed to trauma.
Pyramid Model: The Pyramid framework is used to promote the social emotional competence of children birth to age five in the context of nurturing relationships and quality learning environments, led by the SC Department of Education.
SC Childcare Inclusion Collaborative: The South Carolina Child Care Inclusion Collaborative (SCIC) provides individualized training and technical assistance for child care providers to support the inclusion of children with disabilities/developmental delays in child care programs.
SC Child Care Resource & Referral Network: The SC Child Care Resource & Referral Network helps parents find child care by providing referrals to local child care providers, information on state licensing requirements, information on availability of child care subsidies, and Information on quality child care indicators.
SC Continuum of Care: Provides High Fidelity Wraparound, a care planning process that is integrated, multi-agency, and community-based.
SC Department of Disabilities and Special Needs: SCDDSN is the state agency that plans, develops, oversees and funds services for South Carolinians with severe, lifelong disabilities of intellectual disability, autism, traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury and conditions related to each of these four disabilities.
SC Department of Health and Environmental Control: DHEC is charged with promoting and protecting the health of the public and the environment in South Carolina.
SC Department of Health and Human Services: SCDHHS's mission is to purchase the most health for our citizens in need at the least possible cost to the taxpayer. Medicaid is South Carolina's aid program by which the federal and state governments share the cost of providing medical care for needy persons who have low income.
SC Department of Mental Health: Our mission is to support the recovery of people with mental illnesses.
South Carolina Department of Social Services: SC DSS's mission is to serve SC by promoting the safety, permanency, and well-being of children and vulnerable adults, helping individuals achieve stability and strengthening families.
SC Department of Social Services, Division of Early Care and Education serves to make child care more available and affordable to parents, and to increase the quality of care for all children in the state.
SC Program for Infant and Toddler Care: The SCPITC promotes responsive, relationship-based approach to infant/toddler care.
SC Thrive: a statewide nonprofit offering solutions to South Carolinians in need of resources but facing a multitude of barriers.
WIC: a nutrition program that provides health education, healthy foods, breastfeeding support, and other services free of charge to South Carolina families who qualify.