Healthy Minds Healthy Children
Healthy Minds Healthy Children is Wisconsin’s infant and early childhood mental health consultation program that works with caregivers and professionals to explore how to best support children aged birth to five.
A Year in Review (2025)
The documents below are reports on our inaugural year, the program itself and why we must continue our critical work to increase access to infant and early childhood mental health consultation within Early Care and Education, and across the multiple systems supporting Wisconsin’s infants and young children.
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Healthy Minds Healthy Children (HMHC) is Wisconsin’s statewide infant and early childhood mental health consultation program. Spearheaded by the Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health (WI-AIMH) through funds from the Department of Children and Families, this program is uniquely designed to empower the adults who support the education and development of infants and young children.
Our trained and dedicated team of mental health consultants is focused on building relationships with the adults who support children from birth to five years old, to help build new skillsets, and to increase the capacity of those adults to lay the foundation for healthy growth and development.
Healthy Minds Healthy Children consultation services are offered at no cost for early care and education programs and home-based care providers in Wisconsin At this time, services are available in select regions of the state, with plans to expand throughout Wisconsin. Please Contact Us to learn more.
What is IECMHC
Why is IECMHC Effective?
IECMHC: Why it Matters
4 Levels of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
The IECMH Consultant addresses an individual child’s mental health, emotional well-being, or behavior concerns. The Consultant collaborates with professionals and family members to understand and respond effectively to a child’s needs. A parent or caregiver’s emotional well-being and mental health may be considered as the Consultant strives to increase adult capacity to support a child’s IMH.
Activities include:
Screening and assessment;
Gathering, sharing, and coordinating information and strategies
Guiding, supporting, reflecting
The IECMH Consultant addresses variables (attitudes, beliefs, biases, practices) that may be impacting relationships among professionals, children in their care, and their families. Collaborates with program staff and family members to promote equitable, warm, trusting relationships, consistent routines, and interactions that enhance development and positively impact classroom and home climates.
Activities include:
Observing
Co-developing plans and strategies
Supporting family engagement and partnerships
The IECMH Consultant provides support to improve the overall quality of the program by focusing on multiple issues affecting the quality, climate, and equity of an early childhood setting.
Activities include:
Providing reflective consultation and leadership support
Supporting policy and program initiatives to support the social and emotional learning of all children
Working to solve global issues that affect more than one child, family, or staff member
Developing and providing staff training and wellness activities
The IECMH Consultant assists organizations, systems, and communities to improve social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes through partnership, collaboration, and coordination.
Activities include:
Enhancing awareness of IECMH
Linking families, groups, and organizations
Supporting diversity, equity and inclusion
Advocating for community and family needs