Redefining Quality: Providing Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Support to Fully Meet the Diverse Needs of Families

A series of issue briefs, funded by Perigee, outline opportunities to advance infant, early childhood, and parent mental health in Washington State. Informed by family, provider, community, and system leaders from across the state, these resources make the case for deepening the state's collective focus on supporting mental health and wellbeing during the earliest years. This brief highlights bright spots from around the state that demonstrate successful or innovative approaches to providing services and provides recommendations to improve the infant and early childhood mental health systems that support the social-emotional well-being of Washington's youngest children and their families.