Centerstone’s Early Childhood Network was developed to provide quality intervention services in Maury County to children (birth – third grade) and their families, where the child:
- Is having behavioral problems, and/or,
- Is currently (or anytime during the past year) diagnosed with an emotional or behavioral disorder which results in functional impairment and substantially interferes with family, school or community activities.
The Early Childhood Network (ECN) also supports parents who need assistance in overcoming barriers to their child receiving emotional or behavioral health services.
ECN consists of community stakeholders whose commitment is to assure that the children and their families receive the highest quality services. ECN develops and nurtures relationships with community providers so that together the ECN builds on identified strengths – all to support healthy families and the communities in which they live.
ECN believes that all early learning takes place in the context of relationships with primary caregivers. Current brain research clearly demonstrates that interactions between the child and his/her primary caregivers serve as the foundation in the circuitry of the brain for all later development. ECN promotes growth-supporting, mutually satisfying parent-child interactions and uses the network’s developmental knowledge and discipline-specific expertise in partnership with the parents/caregivers. The relationship between the parents/caregivers and ECN is the vehicle through which intervention and support are most effective.
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