Evaluation of Alameda County Behavioral Health Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation Standards of PracticeTraining and Technical Assistance Pilot - Executive Summary

Alameda County Behavioral Health (ACBH) and First 5 Alameda County partnered to develop proposed ECMHC Standards of Practice to be piloted in 2016-2018. Training and technical assistance was designed and implemented by ACBH. The training and technical assistance for this intervention pilot was delivered by a very seasoned mental health professional who has worked with Alameda County Behavioral Health Services for 19 years. The T/TA coordinator had extensive expertise and background in offering additional professional development and technical assistance to ECMHC grantees throughout Alameda County.

The goal for this study was to pilot an evaluation that met several objectives: 1) to determine whether the delivery of training and technical assistance for ACBH’s EMCHC Standards of Practice met its stated objectives; 2) to inform Alameda County ACBH’s technical assistance and Standards of Practice in terms of ongoing design and implementation; 3) to add to the field of literature on effective strategies for infant and early childhood mental health consultation; and 4) to provide findings that could guide Alameda County and other communities’ and states’ efforts to build a comprehensive system of ECMHC standards in order to align multiple EMCHC grantees and impact the system in a more coordinated fashion.

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