Behavioral and Social Interventions for Children

Pre-school children from high-risk communities often exhibit challenging behaviors, yet many early childhood educators and child-care providers feel ill equipped and lack the necessary tools to address these issues.

Behavioral and Social Interventions for Children (BASIC), a community partnership initiative, examines whether providing an integrated network of preventive and therapeutic services on-site in pre-school childcare centers can change or prevent the development of challenging behaviors in high-risk young children. Services range from universal programs (available to entire classrooms), including Incredible Years parenting classes and PATHS (Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies) preschool emotions curriculum to selective prevention (for higher risk children), including behavioral consultation and Primary Project, to indicated prevention (for children and families with higher levels of need), including Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP) and Trauma- Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT). Mt. Hope Family Center provides CPP, TF-CBT, and is one of the partners conducting Incredible Years classes.

All the centers have National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) accreditation, serve primarily low income, urban populations and are not part of other initiatives such as Head Start.

We Would Like To Thank Our Community Partners
Children's Institute
Early Childhood Development Initiative, Task Force On Children With Challenging Behaviors
Early Childhood Education Quality Council
Incredible Years Collaborative
Monroe Community College Child Care Center

Special Thanks To Our Funder
The United Way Of Greater Rochester