Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant I Requisition ID 2024-48746 Category Behavioral Health Overview The Early Childhood Mental Health Classroom Consultant is responsible for delivering trauma informed classroom consultation services in Franklin and surrounding Counties (including Nationwide Children's Hospital's regional implementation of OhioMHAS ECMH Consultation Program). Consultants work collaboratively to engage early childhood educators, professionals and families in various early care settings to promote healthy social emotional development and manage challenging behaviors. The Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant will provide IECMH consultation in partnership with local Child Care Resource & Referral (CCR&R) organizations. This project aims to provide support to high needs providers by pairing an IECMH consultant with a CCR&R technical assistant coach to provide comprehensive consultation and support to meet the needs of those providers, in particular, a heavy focus on Family Child Care (FCC). The consultant will be responsible for implementing services in SDA 9 (Delaware, Fairfield, Franklin, Licking, Madison, Pickaway and Union Counties). Consultants work collaboratively to engage early childhood educators, professionals and families in various early care settings to promote healthy social emotional development and manage challenging behaviors. Why Nationwide Children's Hospital? The moment you walk through our doors, you feel it. When you meet our patient families, you believe it. And when you talk with anyone who works here, you want to be part of it. Welcome to Nationwide Children's Hospital, Where Passion Meets Purpose. Here, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are integrated into our core values and practices. We are passionate about building, sustaining and evolving an inclusive and equitable environment. We are seeking individuals who live these values and want to share their experiences and efforts in support of our collective mission. We're 14,000 strong. And it takes every one of us to improve the lives of the kids we care for, and the kids around the world we'll never meet. Kids who live healthier, fuller lives because of the knowledge we share. We know it takes a Collaborative Culture to deliver on our promise to provide the very best, innovative care and to foster new discoveries, made possible by the most groundbreaking research. Anywhere. Ask anyone with a Nationwide Children's badge what they do for a living. They'll tell you it's More Than a Job. It's a calling. It's a chance to use and grow your talent to make an impact that truly matters. Because here, we exist simply to help children everywhere. Nationwide Children's Hospital. A Place to Be Proud. Responsibilities * Provides ECMH classroom consultation and training for early care and education providers and teachers using evidence-based models and strategies * Facilitates evidenced-based parent education programs * Participates in data/outcome collection; uses outcomes for quality improvement and planning * Establish and maintain partnerships with community organizations and early childhood programs/systems in conjunction with ECMH Supervisor * Responds to regional requests to the Ohio preschool expulsion prevention hotline * Evening and weekend activities, as needed Qualifications Education Requirement: * Bachelor's degree, required. * Master's degree and experience in school mental health or education, preferred. Licensure Requirement: * Ohio licensure preferred (i.e., LSW, LISW, LPC or LPCC). * Valid Ohio driver's license and proof of auto insurance as required by hospital policy. Must pass motor vehicle background inspection, insurance eligibility, driving qua