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ERIC Number: EJ1482981
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025-Sep
Pages: 16
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0163-9641
EISSN: EISSN-1097-0355
Available Date: 2025-03-03
Creating a Statewide Model of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: A Colorado Case Study
Margaret Franko1; Lindsay Shields1; Elly Miles2; Lisa J. Schlueter3; Allison Kallmann Wegner4; Clara Prish1; Kristin Klopfenstein4
Infant Mental Health Journal: Infancy and Early Childhood, v46 n5 p615-630 2025
The use of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC) has grown dramatically over the past decade to support the skills and reflective capacity of adults who care for infants and young children birth to kindergarten entry. Research to date has shown promise for IECMHC to support children's social and emotional development. However, there is a gap in the published research that articulates how fidelity to a specific statewide IECMHC model impacts desired outcomes for adult caregivers or the infants and children they serve. This article, which articulates the process that Colorado used to develop its own IECMHC model, is the first step in filling this gap in the research. The step-by-step approach to model development can be used by other states undertaking similar efforts to create models that are geared toward a variety of settings, such as early education, home visitation, or health care. Colorado is beginning statewide implementation of the model that resulted from this process and will soon start evaluating the fidelity of that implementation. This process creates the groundwork for ultimately tying implementation of an articulated IECMHC model to outcomes for adults and the infants and children they care for.
Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Administration for Children and Families (DHHS), Office of Child Care (OCC)
Authoring Institution: N/A
Identifiers - Location: Colorado
Grant or Contract Numbers: 90TP0054
Author Affiliations: 1Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Butler Institute for Families, Denver, Colorado, USA; 2Urban Institute, Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population, District of Columbia, USA; 3Colorado Department of Early Childhood, Early Childhood Mental Health Unit, Denver, Colorado, USA; 4University of Denver, Colorado Evaluation and Action Lab, Denver, Colorado, USA