Audience: State Leaders
Family Voices
This 9-min video highlights the experiences of families who have children with disabilities and who are served in inclusive settings.
Disabling Segregation: Dan Habib
This 18-min TED talk is given by a parent and disability-rights advocate who explains his family’s fight to ensure an inclusive education for his son and the benefits for his son and the other children in his son’s school
Christopher’s Story
This 5-min video explores the basic principle of inclusion: that every person belongs
US Department of Health and Human Services, US Department of Education: Policy Statement on Expulsion and Suspension Policies in Early Childhood Settings
The purpose of this policy statement is to support families, early childhood programs, and States by providing recommendations from the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Education (ED) for preventing and severely limiting expulsion and suspension practices in early childhood settings.
Research Synthesis: Infant Mental Health and Early Care and Education Providers
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Research Synthesis: Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
This synthesis has been developed to describe early childhood mental health consultation (ECMHC) and the existing evidence base for its effectiveness in fostering healthy social and emotional development in young children, birth through age 6. It provides a description of the emerging evidence base that many of the beliefs and much of the current body of knowledge about consultation is grounded in literature and the experiences of mental health and early care and education (ECE) providers, educators, and other experts (i.e., practice-based evidence).
Promoting Social-Emotional Competence (Downloadable)
This video was designed to provide a foundation for understanding the Pyramid Model as a framework for promoting young children?s social and emotional development and preventing and addressing challenging behavior. This video is a perfect way to be introduced to and become familiar with the Pyramid Model framework and is available with both English and Spanish open captioning. (26 min)
