Montana Behavioral Initiative - Early Childhood

The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning is a national center focused on strengthening the capacity of child care and Head Start programs to improve the social and emotional outcomes of young children.
http://csefel.uiuc.edu/

The Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning: What Works Briefs: Summaries of Effective Practices for Supporting Children's Social-Emotional Development and Preventing Challenging Behaviors. The Briefs describe practical strategies, provide references to more information about the practice, and include a one-page handout that highlights the major points of the Brief. http://csefel.uiuc.edu/whatworks.html

The Center for Evidence-Based Practice: Young Children with Challenging Behavior is funded by the U.S. Department of Education , Office of Special Education Programs to raise the awareness and implementation of positive, evidence-based practices and to build an enhanced and more accessible database to support those practices.http://challengingbehavior.fmhi.usf.edu/index.html
     
The mission of CO-TEACH Preschool at the Division of Educational Research and Service, is to offer all children a stimulating, playful first school experience and to provide them with the skills they need to achieve - now, when they transition to kindergarten, and during the years that follow. Moreover, CO-TEACH operates on the belief that all children and families have individual strengths and needs and deserve to be treated with respect and dignity in a safe school environment. http://www.dersum.org/projects.aspx?projectID=79&id=449

Dr. Carolyn Webster-Stratton’s the Incredible Years
The Incredible Years are research-based, proven effective programs for reducing children's aggression and behavior problems and increasing social competence at home and at school.
http://www.incredibleyears.com/

How to Promote Children’s Social and Emotional Competence by Dr. Carolyn Webster-Stratton
For teachers of children aged 4-8 years, this book shows how teachers can work with parents in addressing children’s educational and emotional needs. The author presents a variety of classroom management strategies which teachers can choose from to strengthen children’s social and academic competence and develop their emotional literacy.

The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment Program (DECA) is a strength-based assessment and planning system for children ages 2-5. Based on resilience theory, this comprehensive system is made up of a 5-step system designed to support early childhood teachers, mental health professionals, and parents in their goal of helping children develop healthy social/emotional skills and reduce challenging behaviors.
http://www.devereuxearlychildhood.org/about/about-deca.html