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The Government of the District of Columbia seeks to sub-grant funding to support the 4-year implementation of the System of Care Expansion and Sustainability Cooperative Agreement titled DC Social, Emotional and Early Development (DC SEED) Project. The DC SEED Project will address the highly specific, largely unmet needs of infants and young children (birth – 6 years old) residing in the District who are at high imminent risk for or diagnosed with serious emotional disturbance (SED).

DBH will allocate funding to develop and further expand the early childhood System of Care within the children's provider network, implement early childhood specific interventions, such as Child Parent Psychotherapy for Family Violence (CPP-FV) and Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and establish a centralized referral hub. Selected providers will participate in the overall evaluation of the DC SEED Project in partnership with Georgetown University Center for Child and Human Development.

The DC SEED Provider sub-grants will assist with the overall vision of the DC SEED Project to address the highly specific, largely unmet needs of infants and young children (birth – 6 years of age) residing in the District who are at high imminent risk for and diagnosed with SED. The DC SEED Project has three (3) goals:

• Implement all required infrastructure and system-building activities; implement, expand, operate, and sustain a family-driven DC SEED;
• Develop and sustain a data-driven, comprehensive array of mental health and recovery support services for young children and families in DC; and
• Build family and system capacity to recognize and address needs of the DC SEED target population and ensure sustainability and wide scale implementation.