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Children's Initatives News
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May is Mental Health Month...
Thursday, May 6 is National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day. The AAP is a co-sponsor of this event, an initiative of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The theme, "positive mental health is essential to a child's healthy development from birth", focuses on making sure that the promotion of mental health is considered when children are young. To support this event, the AAP developed a list of tips that parents, early childhood educators, and pediatricians can use to promote positive mental health. They can be found at http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/mentalhealthday.cfm. We hope that you will find these tips helpful personally and professionally.
Adolescent Substance Abuse
Click below to view the Adolescent Substance Abuse with Dale Yagiela video recording
Baby Court
The Wayne County Baby Court Project aims to preserve, nurture and establish attachment relationships for young parents (age 16-21) and their first born infants, reduce the impact of out of home placements, provide timely reunification of infant with parent, establish infant mental health service delivery for infants and parents coming to the attention of the child welfare and judicial systems, reduce the amount of money spent on foster care for this target population , improve the time frame for achieving permanency for the target population through reunification or adoption by 25% and improve the parenting abilities and parent child relationship for this population.
Foster Care & Trauma Series
This series explores all the different aspects a child in foster care may experience. It includes role play to help understand the position of other professionals that are involved as well as a history of the child welfare system. The series also looks deeply at the physical and emotional effects of trauma a child may encounter. This series is three sessions scheduled about a month apart from each other and is appropriate for any professional involved in the Foster Care System.
Infant Mental Health
Infant Mental Health is social and emotional development. It is determined by a child's (birth to 5) ability to:
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Experience, control and express emotion
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Explore their environment
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Form close and secure personal relationships
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Learn all in the context of family, community and cultural expectations for young children
In collaboration with the Michigan Association of Infant Mental Health (MI-AIMH), VCE will support Infant Mental Health treatment and our website will seek innovative ways to connect clinicians and researchers across the county and the globe in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and their caregivers.
Please click on the link below to learn more about Infant Mental Health:
Click below to view Infant Mental Health videos.
Parent Management Training - Oregon
Parent Management Training Oregon (PMTO), developed by Gerald R. Patterson and his colleagues at the Oregon Social Learning Center is an evidenced based best practice approach that recognises the vital role that parents play as being the primary change agents within their family. Parents are supported and encouraged as they learn skills they can utilize to provide appropriate care, instruction and supervision for their children. Clinicians utilize their role-play and problem solving to promote as the development of parents skills. Sessions with parents are structured yet flexible to deal with specific family needs and crises as they arise. Therapists trained in PMTO undergo 18 days of training over several months and work to utilize the 5 core components: Encouragement, Limit Setting, Problem Solving, Monitoring, and Positive Involvement is a systemic way with parents. Therapists are required to have 3 training families and 2 certification families all of which are videotaped to help monitor the fidelity of the training and therapist skill level.
Systems of Care
Connections trainings involve educating parents and youth as well as various systems about Systems of Care . The Initiative's primary goal is to assist children with SED and their families with systemic barriers that are involved in multiple systems (DHS, JJ, CMH, Education) to ensure that they experience effective flexible array of services and supports in the least restrictive environment.
Wraparound
Wraparound is an idea that individuals and families are better served and most successful if their support networks collaborate and come together in a united effort to meet the family's needs. This process identifies, creates, and coordinates the necessary services, supports and interventions to keep the child or youth in the least restrictive setting possible and increase their ability to function at home, school and in the community.Heather's trainings are aimed to educate staff on the following: Wraparound process and philosophy for the community, Stakeholders and key collaborators,Child & Family Teams, Engagement, Balance and Restorative Justice, Community teams, Directive Supervision, Crisis and safety planning, JJ/CMH Collaboration, MDCH Wraparound training
VCE has been sponsoring an ongoing series of workshops designed to enhance the skills of and unite Wraparound staff across the county.
Below you can view some of the Wraparound trainings:
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