Program Language: Somali

The Tellmi digital mental health service (IOS/Android/web) provides early help for children and young people aged 11+ with all levels of need. Young people in commissioned areas have 365-day access to anonymous, age-banded peer support, which is 100% pre-moderated (reviewed by humans before being posted). Between 8.30am and 11pm, qualified counselors intervene preemptively and respond privately to any high-risk posts. Young people can also access 1-2-1 text-based Solution Focused Therapy as well as a Directory of over 700 resources, tools, and services. In addition to the digital service, Tellmi also delivers outreach activities such as peer support workshops in local schools and engagement campaigns which are co-created with young people

TRM is a mind-body approach to treating trauma consisting of nine skills that focus on sensory awareness for regulating emotions. The program is designed to develop a more realistic self-appraisal and an increased sense of well-being. Symptoms are viewed as common biological responses to stress and trauma rather than pathological or mental weakness. Clients learn that when the body’s natural survival responses are thwarted, multisensory cues can remind them of the traumatic event as if it is happening in the present moment. Clients are introduced to the first six wellness skills of TRM (i.e., the Community Resiliency Model (CRM)®) for self-care and to help manage distress connected to reminders of their traumatic experience. The remaining three trauma reprocessing skills – Titration, Pendulation, and Completing Survival Responses – can then be used to gently reprocess the traumatic experience. TRM can be implemented as a stand-alone intervention but can also be integrated into other treatment modalities.

TRM can also be used with adults, but the CEBC has not reviewed the program in this capacity.

Tuning in to Kids (TIK) is a parenting program that focuses on emotions and is designed to assist parents to establish better relationships with their children. The program teaches parents simple emotion coaching skills - that is how to recognize, understand, and manage their own and their children's emotions. When their children are emotional, parents: notice the emotion, name it, show empathy and then wait for the emotion to subside (often by comforting the child) before trying to talk about the situation leading to the emotional experience and or what to do about it. The program aims to prevent problems developing in children, promote emotional competence in parents and children, and when present, reduce and treat problems with children's emotional and behavioral functioning. Delivery options range from a 6-session program with the general community through to a 10-session program for clinical/high need participants.

Promoting First Relationships (PFR) is a manualized home visiting intervention/prevention program which includes parent training components based on strengths-based practice, practical, and in-depth strategies for promoting secure and healthy relationships between caregivers and young children (birth to 5 years). Features of PFR include:

• Video recording caregiver–child interactions to provide insight into real-life situations and help the caregiver reflect on the underlying needs of the child and how those needs impact behavior
• Giving positive and instructive feedback that builds caregivers' competence with and commitment to their children
• Focusing on the deeper emotional feelings and needs underlying children's distress and behaviors
• Using handouts and homework to enhance parent insight and learning about child social and emotional development, needs, and concerns

The Parent Support Outreach Program (PSOP) is a voluntary, early intervention program that focuses on a family’s strengths and needs and aims to help pregnant and parenting families thrive. The program is available through all Minnesota counties, and the White Earth and Leech Lake reservations. Families can refer themselves or be referred by community or social service agencies. Parent Support Outreach Program workers conduct comprehensive assessments of families’ needs and strengths and, together, make decisions about what services or community resources are the best choices for success. The overarching goals are to enhance the well-being of children and families, ensure and maintain safety for children, and support families so they can meet the needs of their children by themselves and through support systems.

The Period of PURPLE Crying program is the name given to the Shaken Baby Syndrome/Abusive Head Trauma (SBS/AHT) prevention program developed by National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome. The program educates parents and caretakers on normal infant crying, the most common trigger for shaking an infant. It was designed to be used primarily in universal, primary prevention settings, but is applicable to secondary prevention as well.

The letters in PURPLE stand for the common properties of crying, including unsoothable crying, in infants during the first few months:

• Peak pattern (crying peaks around 2 months, then decreases)
• Unpredictable (crying for long periods can come and go for no reason)
• Resistant to soothing (the baby may keep crying for long periods)
• Pain-like look on face
• Long bouts of crying (crying can go on for hours)
• Evening crying (baby cries more in the afternoon and evening)

The other important word in the name is "period," letting parents and caregivers know there is a beginning and ending to the infant crying phase. The program includes a full color 10-page booklet, parent reminder card, a 16-minute PURPLE Crying video and a 17-minute Crying, Soothing, Coping: Doing What Comes Naturally video intended to be given to parents of new infants. The program materials are available in an App+Booklet package which grants them access to a web and/or mobile application. The program materials are available in two formats: DVD with booklet package or web and mobile application with booklet package. The program also contains a public media component aimed at changing cultural attitudes about crying, especially inconsolable crying.

The Kinship Navigator Program - Washington State is a statewide program that includes all 39 counties and 7 tribes. The program provides a human services worker known as a Kinship Navigator that offers services to kinship care families in a single or multicounty service area or for one of seven tribes. The role of the Kinship Navigator is to connect grandparents and relatives who are raising children with community resources, such as health, financial, legal services, support groups, training, and emergency funds. Since many kinship care families are unaware of services for which they are entitled, Kinship Navigators also explain how to apply for federal and state benefits. The Kinship Navigator services help kinship care families establish or maintain greater self-sufficiency and long-term stability needed to keep their children in their family of origin.

Parents as Teachers™ is a home visiting model that promotes the optimal early development, learning, and health of children by supporting and engaging their parents and caregivers. The home visiting model can be offered prenatally through kindergarten and can be replicated by various types of organizations including health departments, nonprofit organizations, hospitals, and school districts.

The Parents as Teachers model offers a cohesive package of services for families with young children and is framed around four dynamic components: Personal Visits, Group Connections, Child Screenings, and Resource Network. These components are guided by explicit fidelity and quality standards that guide program service delivery and replication of the program.

Parents as Teachers home visiting professionals meet families where they are comfortable; each personal visit includes a focus on parent-child interaction, development-centered parenting, and family well-being.