Erica Coates received funds from the LCIRN for a pilot study: Population-wide integration of multi-tiered, evidence-based interventions to promote early childhood and parent mental health and
development.

The Family Wellbeing Program (FWP) is a multigenerational, multi-tiered, early childhood education center-based intervention strategy. FWP offers a range of trauma-specific evidence-based and evidence-informed practices to families in under-resourced communities to promote mental health for young children and their parents. Using a population-based approach at an early childhood education center, the study will investigate whether participation in the FWP is associated with 1) promotion of emotional and behavioral wellbeing in children and parents, 2) prevention of mental health problems in children and parents exposed to trauma, and 3) effective treatment of trauma-exposed children and parents with clinical distress and impairment.

Results coming soon!