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"Positive mental health is

essential to a child's

healthy development

from birth."

- SAMHSA

Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children's Health

Project LAUNCH is a new federally-funded program to promote wellness for all children in Saginaw County, focusing on children from before birth through age 8.

We want all children to reach their potential in every way:  physical, social, emotional, behavioral, and cognitive (i.e., the way they learn).

If children grow up healthy in all these areas, they are ready for success in life.

How do we want to make this happen?  By focusing on these 5 goals:

1)  Giving you better access to screening tests to track your child's development, assessments, and services

2)  Providing services that have proven to be helpful (called "evidence-based practices")

3)  Teaching people who work with young children about healthy physical, social, emotional, and behavioral development

4)  Improving the service system by working with area pediatricians, educators, child care providers, etc.

5)  Helping more children get ready to do well in school.

Project LAUNCH works collaboratively with other organizations in Saginaw County, including Great Start Saginaw, Teen Parent Services, Birth to Five, Child Abuse & Neglect Council, Saginaw County Community Mental Health, Early On, Saginaw County Department of Public Health, and many others in our efforts to promote young child wellness and prevent problems in the lives of our precious children.

Please feel free to tour our website to see specifically what Project LAUNCH is doing in Saginaw County.  If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Local Young Child Wellness Coordinator, Elizabeth Milton.

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A project of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)