SESS is a collaboration of the Johns Hopkins Center for the Prevention of Youth Violence, Baltimore City Head Start, and the Marguerite Casey Foundation. Testing a model for integrating behavioral health services into early childhood programs, SESS is both a research and a practice project.
The practice segment of SESS includes staff training, universal interventions, targeted family and child support strategies, and clinical services delivered within the context of the Head Start Program.
Research is aimed at providing rigorous scientific evidence to determine whether children and families who participate in SESS programs achieve better access to needed services and better social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral health outcomes than do children and families who do not receive SESS services. Further information: Jocelyn Turner-Musa, PhD, (410-550-6928); jturner@jhsph.edu |
