ESS Integrates Early Childhood Education Program with Mental Health Model
Many students who had spent their early years in COVID-related isolation were showing delays in reaching developmental milestones, and particularly in their ability to effectively self-regulate and socialize to classroom-based learning. Hoping to build on a successful partnership with ESS in the delivery of Tier II and III services for older students, administrators asked ESS to develop a Tier I program to assist its youngest students and agreed that ESS’s trauma-informed clinical approach combined with the child development model known as DIR® offered an excellent starting point.