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Best Practices Ages 3-5

Strategic Planning Tool Home

Planning & Implementation

Risk Factors

Risk Factor Matrix

Program Matrix

Community Resource Inventory

 

Prevention

  • Promote emotional and social competence and treat behavioral and emotional problems in young children.
  • Provide teachers and caregivers with a blueprint for daily routine, playground organization, classroom management, and teacher-child interaction, all designed to create a warm, supportive learning environment.
  • Assist teachers with a classroom management strategy designed to improve aggressive/disruptive classroom behavior.

Intervention

  • Build a comprehensive framework for the integration of child and adolescent services programming that links the juvenile justice system with human service and other related agencies, including schools, child-welfare services, mental health agencies, and social services.
  • Create an infrastructure consisting of client information exchange, cross-agency client referrals, a networking protocol, interagency councils, and service integration.
  • Intervene early with disruptive children and child delinquents.
    1. Intervene with disruptive children by providing social competence/skills training and early childhood education.
    2. Intervene with high-risk families with parent training.
    3. Intervene with high-risk children and their families with multidomain services.
    4. Intervene with child delinquents with wraparound services.
Date Created: December 16, 2020