Early Childhood Intervention & Mental Health Services
Director: Dr. Dennis Valone
Early Childhood Intervention
The IU5 Early Childhood Intervention Program identifies and provides services to children ages three to five years old, with special needs, for the following districts:
Crawford County
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Conneaut
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Crawford Central
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PENNCREST
Erie County
Warren County
Other Counties in Pennsylvania
The IU5 Early Childhood Intervention Program evaluates and provides services for children with special needs. Any parent concerned about his/her child's development may refer his/her child to the Early Childhood Intervention Program. A referral will be taken for children age 2 years + 10 months up to the date that they are age-eligible to enter kindergarten in their school district of residence. For more information on Early Childhood Intervention Services and how to make a referral click here.
If your child is 2 years + 9 months or under see the links below for more information on birth to three services in Erie, Crawford, and Warren Counties.
Erie County - Case Management Support Services (814) 878-3500
Crawford County - Crawford County Early Intervention (814) 333-8793
Warren County - Warren/Forest EOC (814) 726-2100, ext. 8441
Other Counties in Pennsylvania
SchoolBased Mental Health Services
IU 5 Student Assistance Program
The IU5 Student Assistance Program MH Liaison Program (SAP) provides mental health prefessional services in 12 Erie County secondary schools and three parochial high schools. The SAP is patterned after the employee assistance programs that developed in the late 1970s and is designed to provide mental health screenings for students who are referred, with prior written informed parental consent, and follow-up consultations with school staff and parents. When indicated the mental health professionals in this program also facilitate referrals for students and their parents to coummunity-based services. The SAP MH Liaison Program is supported by the Pennsylvania Departments of Education, Health and Welfare. More can be learned about this statewide program at http://www.sap.state.pa.us/desktopdefault.aspx .
SAP Training Project
IU5 is one of twenty-six Commonwealth-Approved Training Agencies fo the statewide Student Assistance Program. Learn more about SAP Training at http://www.sap.state.pa.us/desktopdefault.aspx.
Expanded School-Based Mental Health Services
Several school districts in Erie County purchase expanded school-based mental health services from IU5. Such services include extension of SAP to elementary schools, establishment of support for building level resource coordination teams, and planned coordination with Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services emanating from the fedral Medicaid Program and commonly referred to as wraparound. To learn more about these services you may contact Dr. Dennis Valone at dennis_valone@iu5.org or 814-7348462 or 252 Waterford Street, Edinboro, PA 16412.
Autistic Support Programs
IU5 provides 9 Autistic Support Classroom Programs (AS) in Erie County. These AS Programs are designed to incorporate mental health services into special education and were featured in a statewide presentation at the May 2005 CASSP Conference in State College, PA (click here for PowerPoint presentation). To learn more about the IU5 AS Programs contact Dr. Dennis Valone at dennis_valone@iu5.org.