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Healthy Minds & Positive Supports

Good mental health plays a crucial role in how a child interacts with his/her peers in the classroom, at home, and within their communities.  Children enrolled in our program are awarded a positive, early learning environment supported by mental health consultants from the Village Network and behavioral services by BCBA (Board Certified Behavior Analyst) and RBT’s (Registered Behavior Technicians) from Kendall Behavioral Solutions. The mental health consultant offer’s Triple P services as the official evidence-based parenting program for our families! This program can reduce stress and depression in parents. Triple P’s goal is to Increase parents' knowledge, skills, and confidence, and reduce the prevalence of behavioral, emotional, and mental health issues in children and adolescent. Kendall Behavior Solutions provides behavior analytic services that may include developing/implementing positive behavior support strategies, data collection, provide classroom management strategies by consulting with staff, and implementing the proper Applied Behavior Analysis techniques to provide proven teaching techniques as they work with children and their families. 

Our staff receive hands on professional development throughout the year to support the child’s learning environment. Building off the support from the Village Network and Kendall Behavioral Solutions, our staff receive ongoing training on Conscious Discipline. It is our social-emotional learning program that we promote to help educators, administrators, and collaborating mental health professionals improve their thoughts, feelings, and behavioral skills and help children learn how to manage theirs. Our staff also receive ongoing training focusing on positive behavior support (PBS). It teaches new skills and alternative responses to replace challenging behaviors.

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Conscious Discipline creates a compassionate culture and facilitates an intentional shift in adult understanding of behavior via the Conscious Discipline Brain State Model. It then provides specific brain-friendly, research-backed strategies for responding to each child's individual needs with wisdom. This highly effective approach is proven to increase self-regulation, sense of safety, connection, empathy and intrinsic motivation in both children and adults.

The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL) is focused on promoting the social emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5. CSEFEL is a national resource center funded by the Office of Head Start and Child Care Bureau for disseminating research and evidence-based practices to early childhood programs across the country.

The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations is funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs. The goals of the National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations (NCPMI) are to assist states and programs in their implementation of sustainable systems for the implementation of the Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children (Pyramid Model) within early intervention and early education programs with a focus on promoting the social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes of young children birth to five, reducing the use of inappropriate discipline practices, promoting family engagement, using data for decision-making, integrating early childhood and infant mental health consultation and fostering inclusion.

For more information please contact:

Amanda Ames, Child Development/Disabilities Coordinator
Orchard Road, Wheeling, WV 26003
304-233-3290, Extension 5008
aames@npheadstart.org