Dept. of Health Services: New Office of Children’s Mental Health fact sheet emphasizes importance of infant and toddler mental health

Everyone has thoughts, emotions, and behaviors – what we know as mental health – and infants and toddlers are no different. Positive mental health and responsive relationships in early childhood are critical to a child's health.  The vast majority (90%) of brain development occurs before a child enters kindergarten, so the first five years of a child’s life impacts that child’s well-being for...