Mecklenburg County just lately introduced a brand new program designed to help psychological well being amongst households with infants and toddlers.
The Mecklenburg County Public Well being’s Kids’s Developmental Companies Company will present free psychological well being companies to Mecklenburg County residents with youngsters beneath 4 years previous.
Licensed clinicians will present a complete evaluation and evidence-based companies addressing early trauma, attachment, conduct issues and general parenting help for 10 to 16 weeks.
Some methods this system will help households embrace:
Serving to households help their youngsters by regulating their feelings and conduct
Dealing with tough occasions such because the lack of a liked one, frequent strikes or adjustments in caregivers, and traumatic occasions reminiscent of break-ins, automobile accidents, or neighborhood violence
Coping with ongoing important stress attributable to divorce, substance use and home violence
Mecklenburg County officers say this system will fill a niche in accessible toddler and early childhood psychological well being companies.
“When dramatic adjustments happen within the lifetime of a child or younger youngster, they’re affected,” Tamikia Greene, Mecklenburg County Assistant Public Well being director, Case Administration, mentioned. “We need to assist that youngster and that household with the wanted psychological well being companies. Infants and younger youngsters might not be capable to inform you what’s incorrect, however they really feel it and it shapes their progress.”
Funding for this system comes from the American Rescue Plan Act.
For extra data, electronic mail CDSA-IECMH@mecknc.gov or name the referral line at 704-336-7130.
