Goal 2: Promote healthy social-emotional development of children ages 3-18
Anticipated Impact
Increased community access to programming and information about socialemotional development in children will result in increased community knowledge and skills related to promoting positive social-emotional development in children. Building these types of skills and knowledge are being supported with the long term goal of better health and education outcomes for youth.
Strategy 2.1
Improve collaboration with community partners to promote children’ s socialemotional health.
Tactic: Provide professional development and technical assistance for schools and community-based organizations seeking to incorporate social-emotional content and programming for youth and families.
Tactic: Forge local partnerships that expand access for underserved youth to arts, music, sports, physical activity, and nutrition programming that contribute to positive social-emotional development.( Note: Linked to Physical Activity, Nutrition, and Obesity Plan).
Tactic: Utilization of resources identified in Strategy 1.1 with shared outcome measures in place.
Setting / Delivery Mechanism
School: This program can be integrated in the school resource center project to ensure that all school based health centers providing behavioral health care include the promotion of positive social-emotional development.
Provider: This program can be expanded and administered through a clinical network of primary care providers that ranges from the traditional private pediatric practice to the safety net clinic.
Community: Social-emotional workshops will be provided in a variety of community based settings, such as recreation centers or Boys and Girls club locations.
Employer: Workshops will be provided to the employees of corporate partners educating them about the role of positive social-emotional development in their child’ s health and well-being.
Home: Community Health Workers can provide basic social-emotional development education information and link families up with other additional resources they may need to address child specific dynamics.
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