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Keeping Little ones In Care
Do you have children in your care who are hitting, kicking, biting, pushing, picking on other children, constantly crying, withdrawn, extremely shy, etc.? Please, don't expel that child!
KLIC - Keeping Little ones In Care - is a Kalamazoo area child care expulsion prevention project that is working to reduce the number of children asked to leave their child care program. KLIC will be working with families and providers to successfully nurture the social and emotional development of children ages 0-5 in licensed child care programs.

KLIC provides educational and mental health services to support early childhood programs who are experiencing behavioral and emotional challenges with children in their programs. These concerns may often put children at risk for expulsion. KLIC aims to reduce the expulsions and nurture the social/emotional development of children.

KLIC is a program of Kalamazoo Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and partners with Child Care Resources and Michigan State University Extension.

Why are Child Care Expulsion Prevention programs like KLIC needed?

  •  60.9% of children under the age of six in Michigan require child care.
  • The prevalence of challenging behavior among infants, toddlers and preschool-age children in early care and learning settings ranges from 3-15%.
  • Child care programs are expelling increasing numbers of children due to challenging behavior. A recent survey revealed that nearly 2% of the children in a Michigan county were expelled over a 12-month period.
  • Research shows that early intervention is the key to promoting social-emotional competence and school success among young children.
KLIC Schedule of Trainings
Expulsion Prevention Programs information 
  • Kalamazoo County: KLIC - Keeping Little ones In Care 

Other regional Expulsion Prevention resources:
KLIC offers short-term child/family-centered consultation for children with challenging behaviors:
  • Observation of child at home and at child care
  • Functional assessment of child’s behavior
  • Individualized plan of service developed by team
  • Intervention (e.g., coaching and supporting parents and providers to learn new ways to interact with the child, providing educational resources for parents and providers, arranging for specialized evaluations, modifying the physical environment, connecting the family to community resources, providing counseling for families in crisis, etc.)
  • home visits
  • community referrals

KLIC offers Programmatic consultation:

  • Training for administrators, staff and parents

  • Strategies and curricula to promote social-emotional competence

  • Quality improvement activities
  • Strategies to improve communication among administrators, staff and parents
  • Support to promote the mental health of child care staff and parents

For more information, contact Julie Helmer at Kalamazoo Community Mental Health, Julie Helmer, 269-553-8126 

Date and Time

Topic

Trainer

Location
October 2 -23

Enhancing Social and Emotional Development in Young Children Training Series

 

 Julie Helmer Kalamazoo 

Kalamazoo County Providers ONLY