Specifications include, but are not limited to: Program services that build and expand on existing efforts to prevent and reduce the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences through building resiliency have been identified as the priority for this funding period. Examples of programs include, but are not limited to: • Education efforts focused on parents, childcare providers, preschool teachers and youth serving organizations to increase awareness of the adverse consequences of adverse childhood experiences in early childhood for lifelong outcomes in learning, behavior, and health. • Development of creative, new strategies that can be incorporated into home-, school-, and center-based services to reduce sources of adverse childhood experiences and to strengthen the relationships that buffer children from the long-term consequences of significant adversity; • Community based mentoring activities. • Selected early-intervention programs, early childhood mental health services, and specialized family therapies that have demonstrated evidence of positive impacts on vulnerable young children and families. • Professional development programs that educate key participants in the juvenile court and foster care systems about the biology of adversity and its implications for case management, child custody, and foster care of children who have been abused or neglected. • Collaborative efforts with educators, youth services workers, mental health providers, and other related professionals to address urgent needs as early as possible and to integrate effective services for the most vulnerable children and their families.
