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Mental Health Awareness Month: “Early Relational Health Belongs to Us All”
When Mental Health Awareness Month arrives each May, it’s an opportunity to highlight the importance of early relational health (ERH) to a child’s development. We sat down with Lisa Garcia, licensed mental health counselor and Neighborhood Villages’ Director of Early Relational Health, to continue our conversation on early relational health.
Shifting the Conversation to Early Relational Health
At Neighborhood Villages, we believe that early childhood education programs have the potential to be powerful hubs for positive Early Relational Health (ERH).
Beyond The Pod: Addressing Early Relational Health in Early Childhood Education
Meet Lisa Garcia, our new Director of Early Relational Health
This Mental Health Awareness Month, Recognizing the Need For Behavioral Health Supports For Our Youngest Children
May marks the 75th annual Mental Health Awareness Month, and at Neighborhood Villages, we are using it as an opportunity to advocate for more support for children’s behavioral health needs and to provide an update on our work to address this critical issue.
A co-created community resource: Elevating educator voices
"How do we create a curriculum that authentically serves the audience it is created for and where do we start?"
That was the question and puzzle that Neighborhood Villages sought to solve when creating an innovative, play-centered curriculum for toddlers.
How we’re tackling the children’s mental health crisis
We’re facing a children’s mental health crisis and our child care system cannot be left out of the solution. Fortunately, here at Neighborhood Villages, we’ve created a pilot to address these issues.
Is Good Childcare the Answer to Better Mental Health?
After studying the pandemic’s impact since March of 2020, here’s what over 2,000 surveyed parents, mostly Moms (97%) have shared.