ECIC supports a broad-based advisory committee on the issues of social and emotional health.  The goal of the Social and Emotional Health Committee is to provide advice that will inform ECIC’s work to:

• Support the local Great Start System infrastructure
• Advance the Great Start System result:  Infants, young children and their families are socially and emotionally healthy
• Increase knowledge regarding evidence-based practices
• Development recommendations for innovative early childhood policy
• Provide education to the public to increase public understanding
• Increase public and private investment

The committee focuses on specialized screening, assessment and intervention services designed to promote the social-emotional well-being of all infants and young children.

Committee Objectives:

• Members represent the diversity of Michigan’s population
• Members have a shared understanding of the contributions each makes to the success of the Social and Emotional Health component of the early childhood system
• Members engage in generative dialogue that informs the respective work of membership
• Members choose to collaborate on projects of shared concern.
• Members plan and host an annual convening
• Members oversee preparation of at least one written report from to educate state-wide.

The committee is focusing on:

Educational materials and workforce development

Click here for committee membership listing

ECIC Staff Representatives:

Jenny Salesa,
Specialist for Social and Emotional Health Early Childhood Investment
Corporation (ECIC)
221 N. Pine Street Lansing, MI 48933
(517) 371-9000 Ext. 234
(517) 371-9080 Fax
jsalesa@ecic4kids.org