Ways to Give
Your support helps bring new ideas to life, expand programs that work, and keep essential services available to children and families.
The Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health (CAECMH) at Montclair State University is very grateful for the support of our generous donors.
Special thanks are extended to Jim and Trish DeTura, Dann and Karen Florek, Pegi Adam, and the Ouida Family.
We are also thankful to the private foundations who have supported our work including the Taub Foundation, Burke Foundation, Turrell Fund, Schumann Fund, and the From Day One Foundation.
More About Funding Opportunities
Whether you are interested in seeding some promising new ideas that will take root, growing our successful programs to scale, or nurturing the roots of our existing programs to maintain stability, we sincerely appreciate your interest and support of our plans for growth. Examples of these are below:
SEEDING...
Promising Ideas That Will Take Root
($100-$10,000 per year)
Research:
Create a position focused on research and evaluation efforts of the CAECMH to better demonstrate impact of services and programs and share efficacy data with other providers so as to share lessons learned and best practices.
Professional Development:
Partner with LENA Grow, an evidence-based professional development program for early childhood educators that has demonstrated high efficacy at making improvements in language, literacy and social-emotional outcomes.
Community Development:
Establish the first Early Relational Health Community in the nation where all services that support all families from expectancy to Kindergarten centralize the importance of relationships in their services on behalf of families, and coordinate with each other in a connected system of support.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation:
Expand Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, an evidence-informed model to address caregiver stress and child need, to our Early Intervention/Part C and Evidence-based Home Visiting programs.
Clinical Services:
Develop an evidence-based infant mental health home visiting program to service families of newborns and infants in their home when relational or developmental concerns arise.
Develop an expanded service for adolescents diagnosed with autism/Autistic adolescents to support post-secondary transitions.
GROWING...
Our Successful Programs to Scale
($10,000-$100,000 per year)
Professional Development:
Increase no-cost professional development workshops and reflective practice offerings of the CAECMH to the broad early relational health, maternal-infant health, and developmental education workforce by 10-20%, reaching over 1,500-3,000 additional professionals.
Family Support Services:
Scale up our Enhancing Relationships program that pairs an infant-family specialist with hospital maternity floor staff to support the emerging relationship between new caregivers and their newborns in the first hours after birth. Enhancing Relationships builds parental competence and confidence to ensure a strong start as a family.
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation:
Expand Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation, an evidence-informed model to address caregiver stress and child need, in an additional 80 sites per year toachieve scale in our state.
Teaching Practice Facilitation:
Expand quality inclusive teaching practices in public preschool education to an additional 5% of public preschool programs, or an additional 25 programs.
Pyramid Model Program-wide Implementation Coaching:
Scale up Pyramid Model coaching implementation, an evidence-informed framework to reduce expulsion and suspension from early care and education settings, to up to 10 additional early care and education programs. This growth would allow us to establish one fidelity site per county in the state.
NURTURING...
The Strong Roots of Our Programs to Maintain Stability
($100,000-$1,000,000 per year)
Family Support Services:
Continue the direct promotional services to families to support developmental and relational health in families of newborns, infants, toddlers, and young children. These services occur in community, and on campus at Montclair State University.
Clinical Services:
Grow the outpatient clinical service at Montclair State University including individual psychotherapy, dyadic, family and group therapy, to families with children from expectancy through age 12 years. Funding will allow continued access to clinical services for vulnerable families through reduced fees.
Student Formation:
Provide scholarships for our graduate and continuing education Fellowships in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health, Early Relational Health, Developmental Models of Autism Intervention, and Inclusive Education.
Professional Formation and Systems Coordination:
Sustain the educational services, professional development, reflective practice, coaching/consultation, and systems coordination work of the Professional Formation Center for the Early Relational Health Workforce, an entity that promotes early relational health as the core practice and common ground for all family-serving and educational systems.
Policy Promotion:
Support the policy promotion work done within maternal-infant health, infant and early childhood mental health, autism treatment and education services, and inclusive education practices.