The purpose of Project LAUNCH is to promote the wellness of young children ages birth to 8 by addressing the physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of their development.
Vision
To inspire, promote, and sustain positive outcomes, and holistic wellness across every developmental domain for all Georgia’s children.
Mission
Georgia’s children, birth to age 8, will have increased access to screening, assessment, and referrals to appropriate services to meet their social and emotional needs.
Three Guiding Principles:
- Holistic Perspective
- Wellness means thriving in all developmental domains
- Public Health Approach
- Wellness for the whole population; emphasizes prevention and promotion
- Ecological Framework
- Wellness requires children to be living in safe, supportive homes, schools and communities.
Our three main goals:
- Expand early identification and linkage of children at risk for social, emotional and behavioral delays to provide timely support for children and parents.
- Increase the knowledge of providers of Muscogee County who serve young children and to provide integrated comprehensive behavioral health services.
- Build a common approach between child serving agencies at the state and local levels.
Five Core Prevention and Promotion Strategies:
- Screening and assessment in a variety of child-serving settings
- Enhanced home visiting through increased focus on social and emotional well-being
- Mental health consultation in early care and education programs,
- Family strengthening and parent skills training
- Integration of behavioral health into primary care settings
Innovative and effective prevention/promotion practices at the local level serve as models to be sustained and replicated throughout the state, territory, and tribe.
Our Mission
“Georgia’s children, birth to age 8, will have increased access to screening, assessment, and referrals to appropriate services to meet their social and emotional needs.”