Bright Beginnings

Enroll in Our Early Childhood Mental Health Program

Give your child the tools they need to thrive.

What is Bright Beginnings?

Our Bright Beginnings program focuses on families of children, up to 10 years of age with complex mental health or behavioral needs. The work is a collaborative effort, ensuring the child’s best interests are always front and center.

Protecting Early Childhood Has a Far-Reaching Impact

Each family in the program works with a certified team of mental health and behavioral professionals or specialists. Specifically, they aim to develop strategies for decision-making and stress-handling to make the following easier:

• Recognize triggers
• Interpret emotional outbursts
• Socialize appropriately with peers
• Manage emotional and behavioral responses to stress

We help children with persistent mental health and behavioral challenges by offering individualized community-based services. It’s an early childhood mental health program, but the benefits can last a lifetime.

How Our Clients Benefit From Enrolling in Bright Beginnings

Children with behavioral challenges or mental health conditions have diverse needs. Our Bright Beginnings program focuses on your child’s individual care to help them reach their goals, whether that’s to become a better student, make friends or manage stress.

The child will gain coping techniques and education about local community-based services that can help them manage their emotions, channel their energy and anticipate reactions to certain triggers.

Children and families graduate from the program within nine months, on average.

How Every Child Can Have a Great Start in Life

A bright future requires being able to manage our emotions and interactions with others. Skills that matter include the following:

• Communicating events and emotions clearly
• Handling stress in age-appropriate ways
• Harnessing available resources and support
• Mastering socialization techniques for interacting with peers and adults

We work closely with parents and other family members to reinforce the Bright Beginnings techniques at home. You will have tools to help your child work through stress, overstimulation or big emotions and help them grow.

Learn More About Our Bright Beginnings Program

We strive to provide individualized care to all, with flexible and accessible services that use community resources to really make a difference.

Your child’s clinical team might include the following people:

• Clinicians
• Parent partners
• Education or vocational specialists
• Psychiatrists
• Family counselors
• Addiction prevention counselors