Mental Health Promotion

Following are sites and articles detailing the scope of the problem and potential solutions that address the improvement of parental responsiveness. This can ultimately lead to the enhancement of the mental health of children and families.

Promoting Social Emotional Development and Early Childhood

Mental Health in Young Children: A Roadmap for Long Island

from Help Me Grow (docsfortots.org)

- This roadmap proposes the steps needed to guide Long Island, NY in building systems that ensure all young children are supported to reach their optimal development. This proposal features strengthening existing programs and building new evidence-based initiatives to fill gaps and scale up.

Zero to Three resources:

- State of Babies Yearbook: A comprehensive overview of where we are as a nation in the treatment of our children

- Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Supports and Services:A Planning Tool for States and Communities

Infant Mental Health

from The Family and Youth Institute

Early Moments Matter- a report put out by UNICEF

- UNICEF’s Early Moments Matter campaign aims to raise awareness about the importance of healthy brain development in the earliest years of life, increase investment by governments and businesses in Early Childhood Development programmes, policies and services, and support parents and caregivers to give their children the best start in life.

The following two articles are from Harvard's Center on the Developing Child:

Establishing a Level Foundation for Life: Mental Health Begins in
Early Childhood

A New Framework for Science-Informed Investment in the Early Foundations of Health and Development

Promoting Mental Health- A Report of the World Health Organization

Policy and Advocacy

from Zero to Three

The Center for Law and Social Policy- with Zero to Three

Building Strong Foundations: Advancing Comprehensive Policies for Infants, Toddlers, and Families

Saving Brains: A partnership led by Grand Challenges Canada, in partnership with The Center on the Developing Child

(Includes an informative video)

The following articles are from the US Department of H and HS:

Behavioral Health Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect

Long-Term Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect

Understanding the Effects of Maltreatment on Brain Development

From the Journal of General Internal Medicine-

The Long-term Health Outcomes of Childhood Abuse:

An Overview and a Call to Action

Childhood Emotional Neglect: How It Can Impact You Now and Later

Kimberly Holland- Healthline

The U.S. ranks last in every measure when it comes to family policy- in 10 charts

Washington Post

Here’s What It’s Like To Live In A Country That Actually Cares About Mothers- Huffpost

Strategies that would improve parent- child interaction and lead to gains in the mental health of children.

Early Identification/ Intervention

Increased access to Parent Progams

Social-Emotional Support: Daycare through secondary education

This section is focused on enhancing mental health by highlighting policy changes that could directly impact parent-child interaction.

The information in these headings, if widely implemented, could lead to important changes in overall mental health.

The achievement of overall mental health requires systemic changes that has to occur on the legislative level- both state and federal.

Organizations listed below are attempting to influence policy changes.

Strategies that would improve parent- child interaction and lead to gains in the mental health of children. Early Identification/ Intervention Increased access to Parent Progams Social-Emotional Support: Daycare through secondary education

Strategies that would improve parent- child interaction and lead to gains in the mental health of children.

Early Identification/ Intervention

Increased access to Parent Progams

Social-Emotional Support: Daycare through secondary education