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Infant and early childhood mental health consultation (IECMHC) plays an important role in supporting Head Start and child care programs. This webinar features ways that IECMHC can address program challenges such as staff wellness, staff morale, and challenging behavior. It also highlights a new course, Foundations of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, available on the Individualized Professional Development (iPD) Portfolio. The course offers a detailed learning experience for mental health consultants and anyone who uses or wants to learn more about core competencies needed for IECMHC, and outlines tasks and best practices associated with offering consultation at various levels.

This webinar is offered with simultaneous interpretation in Spanish.

Key Topics
In this webinar, we’re discussing:

• The important role that mental health consultation plays in offering effective early childhood services
• Ways the mental health consultant can support challenges in Head Start and child care programs
• The new iPD course on mental health consultation, which offers 0.5 continuing education units or five contact hours upon completion

Target Audience
This webinar benefits:

• Head Start program staff members, families, directors, managers, and administrators
• Early childhood program staff members, families, directors, managers, and administrators
• Home visitors
• Infant and early childhood mental health consultants
• Child care health consultants
• Head Start federal staff
• Head Start training and technical assistance staff
• Head Start Collaboration Office directors
• Child care federal, state, and local staff

Related Resources
Explore related resources on the Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) to learn more.

• Foundations of IECMHC
• Implementing High-quality Mental Health Consultation
• IECMHC: Information for Families

All ECLKC pages are translated into Spanish. Select the Español button on the top right corner to see the Spanish t