Early Childhood Mental Health Project
Closing the achievement gap by promoting young children's healthy social-emotional developmentThe social-emotional abilities a child acquires before age 5 - attentiveness, persistence, and the capacity to control one's behavior, get along with peers, and ask for and accept help - are as important as academic skills in preparing a child for school.
The Early Childhood Mental Health Project was designed at Educare of Chicago to promote age-appropriate social-emotional development among children who are at risk of poor development and school outcomes. The ongoing project includes screenings and assessments of children, teacher training to address developmental concerns, and parent support groups that help identify and address the stress factors in parent's lives that may hinder their child's healthy development.
Private funding allows us to develop and test new approaches, like the Early Childhood Mental Health Project, for educating at-risk children. For more information or to support this project, please contact Barbara Hoffman, Director of Development, at 312.453.1930.
This project is generously supported by The Blowitz-Ridgeway Foundation.
Related Publications:
- Secure Attachment
- Toward the ABCs: Building a Healthy Social and Emotional Foundation for Learning and Living