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Agenda Item Number: <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH <br />AGENDA ITEM SUMMARY <br /> <br />Meeting Date: November 18, 2015 <br /> <br />Agenda Item Subject: Early Childhood Mental Health <br /> <br />Attachment(s): NCIOM "Growing Up Well" Executive Summary <br /> <br />Staff or Board Member Reporting: Ennis Baker, Mental Health Specialist for Orange <br />County Head Start/Early Head Start & Co-Chair of the Orange Early Childhood Mental <br />Health Taskforce <br /> <br />Purpose: ___ Action <br /> _X_ Information only <br /> ___ Information with possible action <br /> <br /> <br />Summary Information: <br />The 2014-2016 Board of Health Strategic Plan includes a focus on the importance of <br />and need for childhood mental health services. This includes an action step for the <br />Board to receive and discuss priority policy recommendations from local <br />leaders/advisory boards in early childhood mental health (ECMH) to improve policy and <br />programs. <br /> <br />Ennis Baker, a local leader in ECMH, will present a review of the current system for <br />early childhood mental health in North Carolina, statewide recommendations to improve <br />this system, local organizations/programs working to improve ECMH in Orange County, <br />and identified gaps in the system for young children in our county. The statewide <br />recommendations are from the North Carolina Institute of Medicine's "Growing Up Well <br />Report". The Executive Summary is included here as information for the meeting, and <br />the full report is available at: http://www.nciom.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Early- <br />Childhood.pdf <br /> <br />Recommended Action: ___Approve <br /> ___Approve & forward to Board of Commissioners for action <br />___Approve & forward to ___________________________ <br /> _X_Accept as information <br /> ___Revise & schedule for future action <br /> ___Other (detail):