Child Welfare and Early Intervention: Policies and Practices to Promote Collaboration and Help Infants and

Helping families It is clear from an examination of the promising understand that EI is a supportive and voluntary strategies used in the three case-study states – service that is separate from CW and explaining the Colorado, Rhode Island, and Texas – that multiple value of EI for the child and family requires that CW policies and workforce supports are needed to and EI use a coordinated outreach. [...] Given that • S tate and local CW and EI should ensure the children in founded and unfounded cases have referral of infants and toddlers to EI by: (1) similarly high levels of risk for developmental and assigning the role of promoting successful mental health problems, it is important to refer CW referrals to EI to designated CW or CW- them to EI or an intermediary program without EI liaison staff. [...] caseworkers and EI providers need ongoing training Additional benchmarks that CW agencies and EI and support to enable them to engage parents and should consider include: caregivers so they can identify and address the Referral of all or most infants and toddlers in social-emotional needs of infants and toddlers unfounded cases for screening in EI or a related involved with CW. [...] Briefing paper: Infant and early childhood mental health and early intervention (Part C): Policies and practices for supporting the social and emotional development and mental health of infants and toddlers in the context of parent-child relationships. [...] Briefing paper: Infant and early childhood mental health and early intervention (Part C): Policies and practices for supporting the social and emotional development and mental health of infants and toddlers in the context of parent-child relationships.