California's Infant, Preschool and Family Mental Health Initiative
- piloted approaches for delivering integrated early mental health services in child care and education settings through positive relationships between service providers and families in order to support the parent-child relationship;
- identified effective methods, measures, and resources for screening, assessment, service coordination, service delivery, and funding;
- expanded community education, training opportunities, and support for non-mental health professionals concerning early parent-child relationships and early emotional-social development;
- expanded education, training opportunities, support, and supervision for mental health professionals;
- promoted ongoing interagency and interdisciplinary collaboration; and
- evaluated outcomes and changes for children and families, service providers, service systems, and communities.
- provide support, training, technical assistance, materials, and other resources to counties;
- assists in coordinating statewide efforts in personnel and program development;
- support integrated services;
- identify strategies to promote training and technical assistance in screening and assessment measures;
- facilitate increased interdisciplinary and interagency collaboration; and
- evaluate outcomes for children, families, and service providers.
Revised Training Guidelines and Personnel Competencies for Infant-Family and Early Childhood Mental Health. (Note: In order to print this document correctly, you must save it to your desktop and open it in Adobe Acrobat.)
The following reports reflect the work performed under California's Infant, Preschool & Family Mental Health Initiative:
1. Building Capacity to Provide Infant-Family and Early Mental Health Services: Training, Technical Assistance, Consultation and Supervision Models. Download PDF
2. The Delivery of Infant-Family and Early Mental Health Services: Training Guidelines and Recommended Personnel Competencies. Download PDF
3. Impact & Evaluation Findings: Training Activities and Changes in Providers and Communities Download PDF
4. The Clinical Services Study Executive Summary: Development, Implementation, and Preliminary Findings (Contact 916/492-4011 for a copy of the full report.) Download PDF
5. IPFMHI Phase II Final Report: Consolidation and Sustainability: The Status of Infant Family and Early Mental Health Services in IPFMHI Pilot Counties. Download PDF
6. Compendium of Best Practices/Literature Review
- Introduction Download PDF
- Reference and Practice Download PDF
- Reference and Domain Download PDF
- Evidence Based Practices Download PDF
- Emerging Practices Download PDF
- Promising Practices Download PDF
- Other Practices Download PDF
- Early Intervention/Early Childhood Websites Download PDF
8. Infant Preschool Family Mental Health Initiative: Accomplishments and Lessons Learned. Download PDF
The Executive Summary of The California Infant Mental Health Workgroup Report: Recommendations for Screening, Assessment, Service Delivery and Training Related to the Promotion of Infant Social and Emotional Mental Health for All Providers of Education, Health and Human Services to Infants, Toddlers and their Families, provides recommendations related to the promotion of infant social and emotional health and was the catalyst for the Infant, Preschool & Family Mental Health Initiative. Download PDF
An additional publication, "Evolving Perspectives in Infant-Family Mental Health and Reflective Supervision: A Collection of Published and Unpublished Articles," is also available from the Early Start Library. Please call 916/492-4020 for more information.
The following products are related to Social Emotional Well-Being and School Readiness:
- Social Emotional Well-Being and School Readiness
- Order Form for Social Emotional Well-Being and School Readiness
- Order Form for the Three R's of Early Childhood: Relationships, Resilience, and Readiness