Project Connect NBRC

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Project Overview

Project Connect NBRC is a three-year project that focuses on mental health and wellness of young children (birth-five years old). The project, supported through funds from the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA) from the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS), is specifically intended to identify and address critical need areas within Napa, Sonoma, and Solano Counties. The aim of the project is to promote the development of an inter-organizational system of coordinated, culturally appropriate infant-family and early childhood mental health services that support young children's social-emotional health and well-being in these three counties.

Enhancing Community Capacity
Project Connect NBRC involves the creation of a regional interagency collaborative for strengthening infant-family and early childhood mental health systems. The collaborative will work to increase the local region's capacity to promote early childhood mental health and wellness and work towards putting in place strategies that will target prevention of social-emotional problems in young children. Collaborative members will include organizations and professionals that support, evaluate, intervene early, and treat the mental health needs of young children and support their families across settings, including early intervention, childcare, education, foster care, home-visiting services, primary health care, family advocacy organizations and others.

The following five fundamental concepts must be embedded and continuously addressed in both local and state level collaboration:

Client/Family-driven mental health system;
Cultural competence;
Community collaboration;
Service integration; and
Focus on recovery, wellness, and resiliency.

System Improvement
A specific charge of Project Connect NBRC will be to identify and prioritize three to four areas of need within local infant-family and early childhood mental health systems. Teams comprised from the membership of Project Connect NBRC will then collectively develop specific Action Items targeted to address, ameliorate, or reduce the impact of these particular regional and community needs.

An additional function of Project Connect NBRC will involve the identification of local service and training needs across Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties. Project Connect NBRC will organize and sponsor at least two professional development and/or family-education and self-advocacy training sessions targeted to these identified services and training needs over the course of the project.

Dissemination of Resources
Project Connect NBRC will develop resources and disseminate information related to early childhood mental health and wellness. All materials and resources produced through Project Connect NBRC will be available for the public and shared statewide.

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