THE SOURCE: PILOT PROGRAMS

Infancy & Early Childhood

INFANCY & EARLY CHILDHOOD

Early childhood mental health sets the stage for a child’s development. By addressing young children’s social-emotional development, we give them a better chance to form healthy relationships, manage their behavior and succeed in structured settings like child care or school.

The SOURCE’s infancy & early childhood mental health program, called Together We ROCK!, seeks to support the mental health of Elkhart County’s youngest children.

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Elkhart County

Everyone in Elkhart County can attend our quarterly trainings, view a recorded training, refer an at-risk child (age 0-5) to the ROCK Team or for short-term early childhood mental health consultation. Download the consent form here and complete the online referral form here.
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ROCK Team

This interdisciplinary group of early childhood experts meets monthly to provide recommendations for referred children. Watch the video below to learn more!
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Together We ROCK! Cohort

A group of early childhood providers committed to a year of intensive training and implementation of social emotional programming. Members have access to programmatic and child-specific mental health consultation and can enter the cohort portal here. 
For more information, contact us at iec@oaklawn.org (The SOURCE is hosted by Oaklawn).

Learn about ROCK Team!

ROCK Team was born out of The SOURCE Early Childhood Committee’s work and began with a visit to Union City, New Jersey to learn about their pre-Kindergarten programs. It became clear that Elkhart County early childhood educators and childcare providers would benefit from access to an interdisciplinary team of early childhood experts who could learn about a specific child’s behavioral or emotional concerns and respond with concrete, targeted recommended interventions.

ROCK Team members include professionals from education, speech and language pathology, behavioral and mental health from organizations/districts across Elkhart County.

Thank you

We would like to thank our many partners for their support and dedication as we work toward equal distribution of social-emotional resources to families and young children in Elkhart County so that they can have a positive impact in our community.

Get Involved

We know that systems of care are stronger when a community is fully engaged. There are lots of ways to become involved.
Find out more
The Source • Youth Mental Health Network

CALL TO ACTION

If you or your child need help or have questions, check out our list of community resources and remember,
IT’S OK TO ASK!

GO TO OUR RESOURCES PAGE

IF THIS IS AN EMERGENCY CALL 911 or GO TO NEAREST EMERGENCY ROOM

For the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline call 988 or text the word ‘home’ to 741741 for Crisis Text Line.