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Resources

MOAIMH-EC is working to optimize the well-being in the early years by promoting first relationships and advancing effective infant mental health practice.  

 State Agencies and other statewide resources

• Missouri Coalition for Community Behavioral Healthcare https://www.mocoalition.org/ (formerly Missouri Coalition of Community Mental Health Centers), represents Missouri’s not-for-profit community mental health centers, as well as alcohol and addiction treatment agencies, affiliated community psychiatric rehabilitation service providers, and a clinical call center - includes 33 member-agencies.

  • Missouri Children’s Trauma Network https://www.moctn.com/ is a network of clinicians and advocates dedicated to expanding access to evidence-based mental health treatment for traumatized children.

  • The Missouri Children's Trauma Network has provided Evidence Based Practice training in EMDR, TF-CBT, Motivational Interviewing, and PSB-CBT to individuals throughout the state of Missouri. https://www.moctn.com/resources

• Missouri Department of Mental Health

  • Trauma Informed Care: https://dmh.mo.gov/trauma/

• Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education Office of Childhood

  • Early Connections website: https://earlyconnections.mo.gov/

  • Missouri Parent Advisory Council: https://earlyconnections.mo.gov/get-connected/parent-advisory-council

• Missouri Kids First https://www.missourikidsfirst.org/

National Organizations and Resources

• Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health - “The Alliance for the Advancement of Infant Mental Health® is a global organization that includes those states and countries whose infant mental health associations have licensed the use of the workforce development tools, Competency Guidelines® and Endorsement for Culturally Sensitive, Relationship-Focused Practice Promoting Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health®, under their associations’ names.”

• World Association for Infant Mental Health

  • Position Paper on the Rights of Infants: https://www.waimh.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=3361

Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation

• Zero to Three

  • Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: Policies and Practices to Foster the Social-Emotional Development of Young Children:  https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1694-early-childhood-mental-health-consultation-policies-and-practices-to-foster-the-social-emotional-development-of-young-children

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

  • The Center of Excellence for Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC):  https://www.samhsa.gov/iecmhc

• Head Start Early Childhood Learning and Knowledge Center (ECLKC) at U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Administration for Children & Families (ACF)

  • Mental Health Consultation Tool:  https://eclkc.ohs.acf.hhs.gov/mental-health/learning-module/mental-health-consultation-tool

• Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development

  • Center for Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: https://www.ecmhc.org/

• Vanderbilt Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) at http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/

  • Research Synthesis—Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation: http://csefel.vanderbilt.edu/documents/rs_ecmhc.pdf

Trauma and Toxic Stress

• Harvard Center on the Developing Child

  • Early Childhood Mental Health and toxic stress: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/science/deep-dives/mental-health/

  • What are ACEs and how do they relate to toxic stress?: https://developingchild.harvard.edu/resources/aces-and-toxic-stress-frequently-asked-questions/

• The Adverse Childhood Experiences Study (ACE) demonstrates the impact of trauma on physical and mental health over a lifetime.

  • More about the ACEs study at the Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/acestudy/index.html

• Center for Youth Wellness: Transforming the way society responds to children exposed to Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress through pediatrics and beyond

  • Nadine Burke’s TED talk “How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime”: https://www.ted.com/talks/nadine_burke_harris_how_childhood_trauma_affects_health_across_a_lifetime

• National Child Traumatic Stress Network

  • A number of resources for assessing, mitigating and treating early childhood trauma: https://www.nctsn.org/what-is-child-trauma/trauma-types/early-childhood-trauma