Supporting Immigrant and Refugee Families through Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Services

and other stakeholders have several opportunities ► Policymakers can prioritize diversification to improve the accessibility and relevance of IECMH of the IECMH workforce at all levels and services for immigrant and refugee families, includ- appropriately incentivize the employment ing the following: of cultural brokers and family navigators who possess the skills and lived experience ► The Center. [...] For immigrant and refugee families who have been exposed to trauma strategies, and program approaches and stressors related to migration and acculturation that recognize and respond effectively experiences, mental health resources and services to the diverse needs of immigrant that reach children at an early age can be particular- families with young children. [...] ways and hold a wide variety of legal statuses, lived Accordingly, well-designed IECMH services support experiences, and integration trajectories, all of which the relationship between children and their primary can influence the type of mental health and other caregivers, recognizing that this connection sets the services they and their family members need and stage for social and emotional learn. [...] MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 12 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 13 SUPPORTING IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE FAMILIES THROUGH INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORTING IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE FAMILIES THROUGH INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES The SWYC is brief and easy to read and provides themselves refugees. [...] of Mental Disorders (DSM-V)—and, specifically for young children, the Diagnostic Classification of MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 14 MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE | 15 SUPPORTING IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE FAMILIES THROUGH INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES SUPPORTING IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE FAMILIES THROUGH INFANT AND EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES Mental Health and Developmental Disor.