The Early Childhood Mental Health Grants Program recognizes that healthy and successful children need strong family support and guidance and an environment that nurtures each child's social, emotional, cultural and intellectual development. The aim of the Early Childhood Mental Health Grants Program is to strengthen and sustain policies, programs, and providers focusing on early childhood and families with children ages birth to six years.

The program seeks to increase the number of children ready for kindergarten by building their social and behavioral skills; to increase the social and emotional well-being of children in early childhood programs; and to help child-serving institutions become more competent when working with families to meet the social and emotional needs of young children.

Applying for a Grant

Grant Guidelines and the application form are available to download in Adobe Acrobat's PDF format. You will need Acrobat Reader that can be downloaded for free here.

Proposal Instructions are not currently available online.  Please phone or email IMH for a copy of the current format.