Mental Health Consultant, Early Childhood

CCTC is currently looking for a bilingual Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant. This position will be is responsible for integrating mental/behavioral health approaches and practices into multiple early childhood learning settings by supporting parents/caregivers as well as early learning center staff in meeting the mental/behavioral health needs of infants and young children.

Responsibilities include:

• Providing program consultation to early childhood learning center personnel in support of developing and enhancing positive, trauma-informed learning environments
• Providing teacher consultation to support the use of positive classroom and individual behavioral management strategies
• Providing classroom/child observations to identify and make recommendations for children presenting with mental/behavioral health challenges.
  Provide clinical care coordination services to link families to needed resources including behavioral health, early intervention, and other resources in the community
• Providing consultation to parents/caregivers regarding mental/behavioral health of their children including positive parenting strategies, and psychoeducation on topics such as child developmental and the impact of adversity/toxic stress on young children
• Providing mental health workshops for teachers/school personnel on mutually agreed upon topics in the areas of young child mental/behavioral health, social emotional development, the impact of trauma on young children, and trauma-informed care approaches
• Providing mental health workshops for parents/caregivers on mutually agreed upon topics of interest such as social/emotional development, positive parenting techniques, parent/child relationship enhancement, and the impact of adversity/toxic stress on young children