ECHFS-CYFD Infant Mental Health Team
Project Description:
The goal of this project is to provide infants in state custody a coordinated process for assessment and treatment in order to promote permanency planning and positive developmental outcomes. The assessment and treatment protocol will support the child, in the context of all of their important care giving relationships, in order to enhance optimal and comprehensive developmental progress.
OBJECTIVES:
Update, document, and maintain a standard protocol for comprehensive behavioral and developmental health assessment and treatment for infants and toddlers who have been removed from parental custody including their primary caregivers. Assessment procedures will cover all domains of infant development which include physical, cognitive, social, emotional and relational.
OUTCOMES AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES:
Reduce the length of time the infant is in foster care
Reduce maltreatment recidivism rates of infants involved with the Infant Team
Improve psychological/developmental care to infants and toddlers
Improve the quality of information provided to courts regarding infants/toddlers, biological parents, relatives and foster parents as it pertains to the welfare of the infant
Assist foster parents in management of maltreated infants/toddlers using a selection of assessment tools.
Develop positive, productive working collaborations between protective services, infant mental health teams, and the judiciary, so that the entire system is working on behalf of the best interest of the infant.
Keyword(s):
CYFD custody, Infant Mental Health
Core Function(s):
Performing Direct and/or Demonstration Services
Area of Emphasis
Education & Early Intervention, Quality of Life
Target Audience:
Not Applicable
Unserved or Under-served Populations:
Racial or Ethnic Minorities, Disadvantaged Circumstances, Limited English, Geographic Areas, Reservation, Rural/Remote, Urban
Primary Target Audience Geographic Descriptor:
Single-County
COVID-19 Related Data:
N/A
