GTB 2023-002 - Head Start/Early Head Start Mental Health Consultant

Head Start and Early Head Start mental health consultant, which provide services as per:

A program must ensure mental health consultants assist:
(1) The program to implement strategies to identify and support children with mental health and social and emotional concerns;
(2) Teachers, including family child care providers, to improve classroom management and teacher practices through strategies that include using classroom observations and consultations to address teacher and individual child needs and creating physical and cultural environments that promote positive mental health and social and emotional functioning;
(3) Other staff, including home visitors, to meet children’s mental health and social and emotional needs through strategies that include observation and consultation;
(4) Staff to address prevalent child mental health concerns, including internalizing problems such as appearing withdrawn and externalizing problems such as challenging behaviors; and,
(5) In helping both parents and staff to understand mental health and access mental health interventions, if needed.