Specifications include, but are not limited to: Provide the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) integrate early childhood mental health consultation services into the system of supports in order to create high quality early childhood programs and provide early childhood educator competencies to address social emotional learning for infants through preschool. Tasks: 1. Hire and supervise qualified early childhood mental health consultants. 2. Develop and implement a process of recruiting, prioritizing, enrolling, and exiting eligible early childhood education programs. 3. Systematically communicate and/or collaborate with Center for Early Learning Professionals, linking ECMHC Intervention supports with ECMHC promotion and prevention services and supports provided through the Center. 4. Deliver child- or family-centered and programmatic intervention activities within early childhood education programs in RI. 5. Regularly convene a management team, which includes representatives from the Center for Early Learning Professionals and RIDE, to ensure integration of ECMHC Intervention Supports within RI’s early childhood education system.
