加州投資 5,600 萬美元擴大幼兒心理健康服務

薩克拉門托

– The Department of Health Care Services (DHCS) today awarded $56 million to 54 organizations across 34 counties through the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative (CYBHI). This funding will expand access to early childhood mental health and wellness services, including services focused on prevention, early intervention, and resiliency/recovery for children and youth, with a specific focus on children and youth who are from the following groups: Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and the LGBTQIA+ community.

「我們正加倍投入那些行之有效且經得起考驗的心理健康服務，」加州衛生與人類服務部（DHCS）主任蜜雪兒・巴斯表示。「以實證為基礎且由社區定義的實踐，有助於促進幼兒的健康發展、改善家庭服務的協調性，並強化兒童與照顧者之間的關係。」「透過這項工作，DHCS 旨在預防並減輕加州下一代面臨的行為健康問題，讓他們能夠過上充實、健康的生活。」

“California continues to recognize the value of investing in proven early childhood mental health supports in our communities and the immense impact it has on healthy social and emotional development of children and youth,” said Avo Makdessian, Executive Director of First 5 Association of California, which was awarded nearly $3.8 million across four counties.

WHY THIS MATTERS: Early childhood mental health services help professional and personal caregivers prevent negative long-term mental health impacts by providing training and support to ensure children have healthy early social and emotional development support. Collectively, these investments will help:

• 通過建立強大、多元化的家庭訪問工作人員，增加以文化和語言為中心，並可以滿足他們服務社區的需求的訪問和諮詢服務的訪問服務的訪問服務。
• 改善為孕婦和育兒人士及其家庭提供服務的協調。
• 透過積極的育兒訓練，加強孩子/照顧者的關係和家庭動態，以支持兒童健康發展的經驗證、有效的技能和策略。
• 通過減少情緒和行為挑戰，並增加早期識別發展問題，以改善照顧者的福祉，以及新生兒、兒童和母親的健康。
• 確保加州的父母、照顧者和兒童公平獲得服務，減少健康差距。

In addition to this expansion of proven mental health and wellness services and supports for parents and caregivers throughout the state, California is also working to improve access to critical behavioral health services that include treatment, housing, education, and employment support for children and youth.

AWARD DETAILS: Funded models under this opportunity include, but are not limited to, Healthy Families America, Nurse-Family Partnership, Family Spirit, Parents as Teachers, select components of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, and a variety of other early childhood wraparound services.

EXAMPLES OF WORK BEING FUNDED: Healthy Families America, funded across 10 counties (Los Angeles, Sonoma, San Diego, Sacramento, Glenn, Alameda, San Bernardino, San Joaquin, Nevada, and Orange), is an evidenced-based home-visiting intervention program for pregnant people and families with children ages 0-5. The program strengthens parent-child relationships, promotes healthy childhood growth and development, and enhances family functioning by reducing risk and building protective factors.

家訪計畫旨在協助滿足兒童及其家庭在孩子生命中至關重要的前五年所面臨的需求。這些計畫旨在促進兒童的健康與福祉、發展及就學準備，並建立正向的照顧者與兒童關係。2023年，國家家庭訪視資源中心報告指出，加州有超過兩百萬名孕婦及育有6歲以下兒童的家庭可從家庭訪視服務中受益，其中包括許多單親母親和低收入家庭。這些家庭共計有 2,722,900 名兒童，其中 15% 為未滿 1 歲的嬰兒，50% 為 3 至 5 歲的學齡前兒童。加州衛生與人類服務部（DHCS）在加州 34 個縣資助了全方位支援服務，包括家庭訪視計畫。

HOW WE GOT HERE: DHCS engaged with more than 1,000 diverse stakeholders and key implementation partners across California, including youth, families, educators, caregivers, health care providers, behavioral health experts, and community-based organizations. DHCS prioritized input from children, youth, and families, with more than 300 children and youth engaged via focus groups, surveys, and regular advisory body meetings.

透過這項廣泛的社區參與過程，DHCS 選定了若干基於實證且由社區定義的措施，以在全州範圍內推廣，其中包括幼兒心理健康與福祉服務。

大局觀：《兒童與青少年心理健康法案》（CYBHI）是一項針對行為健康的歷史性投資，其重點在於促進公平，以兒童和青少年為核心，並滿足那些在獲取醫療照護方面面臨最大挑戰的社區的需求。這項為期數年、 這項耗資數十億美元的CYBHI投資計畫，是紐森州長推動加州心理健康體系轉型與現代化的核心環節，其中包含州長的《兒童心理健康總體規劃》以及第一夫人西貝爾·紐森發起的「加州為所有兒童」計畫，旨在讓所有人都能更便捷且負擔得起地獲得支援與照護。加州正全面改革其心理健康與物質使用障礙服務體系，以期為所有加州居民提供更優質的行為健康照護。請瀏覽mentalhealth.ca.gov 了解更多資訊。

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