Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultations

The Utah Pyramid Model collaborates with The Children's Center Utah to support providers and caregivers through Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants (IECMHC). IECMHCs are highly trained professionals with mental health expertise. They address young children's social-emotional development, attachment, and trauma, as well as the health and wellness of adults in the child's life.

Infant Early Childhood Mental Health Consultants support adults influential in a child's life to:

  • Promote healthy growth and development
  • Create and implement a behavior support plan
  • Reflect, acknowledge and adapt to individual needs

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Types of Consultations

Programmatic 

Programmatic consultations support whole programs. The consultant works primarily with administrators and staff.

Examples of consultations:

  • Consults on behavior policies/expulsion policies.
  • Participates in meetings to address issues concerning a program's support of the mental health of young children and their families.


Classroom and Home Focused

Classroom and home focused consultations are focused on issues that impact more than one child or family. The consultants work with early childhood professionals to change their overall approach in supporting and addressing social-emotional development and challenging behavior.

Examples of consultations:

  • Reflective consultation to early childhood professional to review data, make space for all voices and feelings, and explore next steps.
  • Offer a mental health lens to support issues such as 
    • Providers' approach with children
    • Providers' relationship with each other
    • Providers' ideas about behavior
  • Recommend Pyramid Model strategies and available resources and supports.

Child and Family Focused

Child and family focused consultations help support those who are concerned about an individual child's behavior.

Examples of consultations:

  • Consultation to support development and implementation of a behavior support plan.
  • Reflective consultation to early childhood professional to review data, make space for all voices and feelings, and explore next steps.
  • Recommend Pyramid Model strategies and available resources and supports.

Requesting Consultation

  1. Pyramid Model coach recommends you for consultation
    1. Please contact your PM coach before moving forward with the consultation process.
  2. Child-Focused Consultation
    1. Please have families complete consent form before filling out a consultation request. (XX LINK TO CONSULT FORM)
  3. Fill out Request for Consultation Form

 

Are you a Pyramid Model site? Is your program interested in a consultation? Contact Evelyn Almazan at (801) 578-2376 or emailing ealmazan@tccutah.org. In your email, include whether you are a program teacher or administrator, an early intervention specialist, or a family member with a student who attends a Pyramid Model site.

Interested in learning more about The Children's Center Utah? Visit TCCU's website here.