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• Addressing Social-Emotional Development and Infant Mental Health in Early Childhood Systems.
  Paula Zeanah, Brian Stafford, Geoffrey Nagle, et al.(Los Angeles, CA: National Center for Infant and Early Childhood Health Policy, January 2005). This report presents an overview of infant mental health (IMH) and the principles that need to be considered when building systems to meet the social and emotional needs of young children. The authors present a number of suggestions about the organization and delivery of IMH services at the state level, as well as some of the problems that are likely to be encountered. (From Introduction)
  http://www.healthychild.ucla.edu/PUBLICATIONS/Documents/IMHFinal.pdf

• Parents as Primary Partners in Their Child’s Development and School Readiness.
  Kathy Seitzinger Hepburn. (Baltimore, MD: Annie E. Casey Foundation, December 2004). This toolkit has been created for the Annie E. Casey Foundation to help promote early childhood development and school readiness. The purpose of the tool kit is to provide guidance, resource materials, and references that will assist communities in working with families as primary partners in their child’s development and school readiness. (From Introduction)
  http://www.aecf.org/publications/data/families_sr.pdf