Online Resources
Partner Websites
Benton County Human Services – co.benton.mn.us
Sherburne County Health & Human Services – www.co.sherburne.mn.us
Stearns County Human Services – www.co.stearns.mn.us
Wright County Human Services – www.co.wright.mn.us
Arc Midstate – www.arcmidstate.org
Caritas Mental Health Clinic – www.ccstcloud.org/MentalHealthClinic
Central Minnesota Mental Health Center – www.cmmhc.org
Milestones – www.milestonesmn.org
Lutheran Social Service – www.lssmn.org
The Village – www.thevillagefamily.org
Minnesota Statewide Websites
Center for Early Education and Development (CEED)
CEED at the University of Minnesota strives to affect positive change in early education, child care, and public policy. CEED has spent over 30 years helping children from infancy through age eight to learn and develop to the best of their abilities. CEED’s mission is to improve developmental outcomes for children through research, training, and outreach.
Culture Care Connection
An online learning and resource center, developed by Stratis Health, aimed at supporting health care providers, staff, and administrators in their ongoing efforts to provide culturally-competent care in Minnesota.
Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE)
ECFE is a resource for all Minnesota families with children from birth to kindergarten enrollment.
Minnesota Association for Children’s Mental Health – Infant & Early Childhood Mental Health (MACMH-IEC)
MACMH-IEC is the early childhood division of MACMH. MAIECMH’s mission is to promote the social and emotional development and mental health of children, prenatal through age five, and their families and caregivers.
Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities
The mission of the Minnesota Governor’s Council on Developmental Disabilities is to provide information, education, and training to build knowledge, develop skills, and change attitudes that will lead to increased independence, productivity, self determination, integration and inclusion (IPSII) for people with developmental disabilities and their families.
Office of the Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities
An Ombudsman is an official who is designated to assist you to overcome the delay, injustice or impersonal delivery of services. The Office of Ombudsman for Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities is charged under Minnesota Statutes 245.91 – 245.97 with promoting the highest attainable standards of treatment, competency, efficiency and justice for persons receiving services for mental illness, developmental disabilities, chemical dependency and emotional disturbance in children.
Parent Advocacy Coalition for Education (PACER)
PACER expands opportunities and enhances the quality of life of children and young adults with disabilities and their families, based on the concept of parents helping parents.
National Websites
Caring for Every Child’s Mental Health
This campaign was created in 1994 by SAMHSA to increase awareness around children’s mental health. SAMHSA is the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Children and Adults with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (CHADD)
CHADD is the nation’s leading non-profit organization serving individuals with AD/HD and their families. CHADD has over 16,000 members in 200 local chapters throughout the U.S. Chapters offer support for individuals, parents, teachers, professionals, and others.
The National Center for Pyramid Model Innovations
www.challengingbehavior.cbcs.usf.edu
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.
ZERO TO THREE
ZERO TO THREE is a national, nonprofit organization that informs, trains, and supports professionals, policymakers, and parents in their efforts to improve the lives of infants and toddlers. ZERO TO THREE’s mission is to promote the health and development of infants and toddlers.
ZERO TO THREE published DC:0-3 in 1994 to address the need for a systematic, developmentally based approach to the classification of mental health and developmental disorders in the first four years of life.
