NASTY REALITIES

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NASTY REALITIES
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• BITS PIECES
• MISSING PIECES
• INVISIBILITY

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• WASTED TIME/ENERGY
• TOO MANY DISCONNECTS
• TENSION-SHORT FUSES

GOING NOWHERE DEFICIENCY/ ILLNESS MODELS
TRANSITION DISCONNECTS
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Surgeon General Report on Childrens Mental
Health Priorities for Change

• Reducing stigma

• Improving access to care

• Expanding supply of services

• Linking disciplines to develop intervention
  prevention strategies

• Bridging gap between research practice

• Providing services in a culturally responsive
  manner

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Child-Centered Strength-Based Model
Making Beneficial Connection
Child
Theory of Whole Child
Quality Information
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Forging Strategic Partnerships to Promote
Wellness for Vulnerable Children
PARTNERSHIP-BASED
Impact?
INTERVENTION
QUALITY INFORMATION
BUILT CAPACITY
PARTNERSHIP
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STRATEGIC AGENDA TO INFORM EARLY INTERVENTION

• Capitalize on existing data sets to understand
  the scope of the problem in the child
  population

• Use information to partner with community
  agencies

• Identify STRATEGIC agencies

• Get children and families involved in strategic
  agencies

• Build capacity in strategic agencies to assess
  needs and strengths of children and families

• Understand how risk impacts development of
  competencies

• Determine Agency impact on children

• Develop and test interventions based on above
  research

• Modify Systems based on findings

• Build capacity in strategic agencies to share
  data with other relevant agencies

• Promote INTERAGENCY collaboration resources
  sharing

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Strategic Approach Prioritizing Scaffolding
Community-Based Prevention Intervention
H E A D S T A R T
Impact on Development
Nature of Exposure
Incidence Prevalence
Developmental-Ecological Model Child-Centered
Population-based
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Strategic Approach Prioritizing Scaffolding
Community-Based Prevention Intervention
H E A D S T A R T
Outreach / SUMS
Closed the gap
Child Family Strengths
Impact on Development
Year of Head Start
Magnitude of Risk
Measurement
Nature of Exposure
Prevalence
School Readiness Study
Incidence Prevalence
Developmental-Ecological Model Child-Centered
Population-based
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Ongoing Collaboration at Multiple System Levels
To Inform Research, Services, and Policymaking

• Head Start-base Research
• Impact
• HS Experience
• Added Intervention

• Building Capacity
• Measurement Research

Strategic Targets Research
Data Linkage Research

• Building Capacity
• Information
• Training
• Communication
• Data bases

• Partnering with Key Systems
• Child Protective Services
• Head Start
• School District
• Public Health
• Police Dept
• Shelter Consortium

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