Research has repeatedly suggested that experiences and skills acquired early in life have a long lasting effect. It is also clear that interventions promoting mental health and preventing mental health problems in children and their caregivers are clinically and cost effective. Combined, these facts makes a strong case for the creation of a child development monitoring system that allows decision makers and researchers to have information necessary for understanding local and state needs, using and tracking the provision and the quality of the intervention strategies that benefit families and children. Project Thrive, in supporting the work of the Early Childhood Comprehensive System grantees, developed a recommended list of indicators across the domains of child development in 2008. This year, we have narrowed-in on indicators for social-emotional development. This webinar, featuring a presentation by Dr. Leslie L. Davidson and Dr. Elizabeth A. Isakson of the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, will:
•Explain why the development of social-emotional indicators are important
•Identify common barriers to social-emotional indicator development and implementation
•Discuss possible solutions to common barriers in social-emotional indicator development
•Describe the framework for getting started with indicator development
•Foster understanding of the components necessary to develop high quality indicators