FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR PREVENTION AND EARLY INTERVENTION POLICY

Description:

The Florida State University Center for Prevention & Early Intervention Policy (FSU Center) focuses on infants, toddlers, and their families in the areas of infant mental health, quality child care and home visiting through the provision of training or direct services funded through various State or Federal grants. In Miami-Dade County, this includes training opportunities for child care providers and services to teen mothers and their children in the Juvenile Court. Projects include:

Early Childhood Court Initiative:
The Center has worked with judges, community partners, and Florida!€™s Office of Court Improvement in adopting a statewide court model and system of care that aims to improve the trajectory of children and families in child welfare.

Infant Mental Health Initiative:
The Center!€™s Irving B. Harris Infant Mental Health Training Institute built a workforce of more than 140 licensed mental health therapists statewide that provide clinical expertise in serving young children in need of infant mental health services.

Partners for a Healthy Baby Curriculum:
A comprehensive, research-based curriculum developed by the Center designed to support a systematic approach to planning and conducting effective home visits that will strengthen families and improve outcomes that is currently used by more than 4,000 home visiting programs.

Ten Components of Quality for Infant and Toddler Child Care:
The Center has worked for 15 years in developing a tool that is used by multiple quality child care initiatives to serve infants and toddlers.

Early Head Start program:
A federal grant-funded home visiting program that was established by the Center 20 years ago that serves Gadsden County, delivering comprehensive services to expectant and low-income families with infants and toddlers.

Young Parents Project:
A comprehensive home visiting program in Tallahassee and Miami that uses a multidisciplinary, professional team to support court-involved pregnant and parenting teen mothers and their children.

General Information

Hours:

8:00am-5:00pm, Mon-Fri

Intake Process:

Call for information

Program Fees:

Free

Languages:

English, Spanish

Eligibility:

Open to the public

Is Shelter?

No

Related Resources

Miscellaneous

AKA:

FSU

Date of Official Change:

January 22, 2024

Legal Status:

Profit

Year Incorporated:

1999

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