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SESS PUBLICATIONS

The Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) collaborators have prepared and provided a series of products to communicate the knowledge, successful interventions, and promising practices from SESS site experience.

Publications in the SESS report series can be downloaded and printed as PDF or HTML files.
 

SESS Training Resources

This “Ordinary Miracles” training package has been developed by the Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) public-private knowledge development initiative of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) and Casey Family Programs.

Introduction to the Training Package (Facilitator Manual and Videos)

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Module I: The Parallel Process (The Soto Family)

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Module II: Parallel Partnership (The Jenkins-Magarity Family)

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Module III: Supervision (The Jones-Hitch Family)

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Module IV: Supporting Competent Families

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The SESS Report Series

These reports presented the SESS program’s findings as they related to the overarching objectives and to participant use of the SESS program services.
Starting Early Starting Smart Final Report: Summary of Findings

Starting Early Starting Smart Final Report: Summary of Findings

This summary presented the SESS program’s major findings as they related to the overarching objectives and to participant use of the SESS program services. In addition, the outcomes were presented with a focus on the shared characteristics that define the SESS interventions and the overall outcomes achieved by all 12 sites. Outcomes were also presented in the framework of the SESS service package: behavioral health services for caregivers, parenting and home environment services, and behavioral health services for children. (24 pages)

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Key Principles in Providing Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Young Children and Their Families: The Starting Early Starting Smart Experience

Key Principles in Providing Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Young Children and Their Families: The Starting Early Starting Smart Experience

Describes the core components of the SESS programs. Contents include the philosophical principles and underpinnings, the program implementation, building an intervention approach, and identifying what works. This is a very useful guide for those who are planning the integration of behavioral health services (substance abuse prevention and treatment and mental health) in early childhood and primary health care settings. (47 pages)

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The Starting Early Starting Smart Story

The Starting Early Starting Smart Story

An overview that describes program innovations, including the nature of SESS child- and family-centered services, strengths-based services drawn from family traditions and cultural background, specific interventions, collaboration, outcome measurement, SESS lessons learned in recruiting and working with families as well as in the collaboration process, and a profile of each of the 12 SESS sites. (59 pages)

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The Starting Early Starting Smart Family Institute: A Journal of the Convening With Guide Points for Involving Families

The Starting Early Starting Smart Family Institute: A Journal of the Convening With Guide Points for Involving Families

A record of a 3-day convening of SESS family members and site staff, which was held in a Virginia suburb of Washington, DC, in summer 2000. In addition to a synopsis of the sessions, there is a section on the planning process and a set of family stories. The text is interspersed with guide points for those who work with families. The nature of the text presentation reflects the families' culture and preferred communication style.

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Key Guide Points for Partnering With Families

Key Guide Points for Partnering With Families

This brief document is a serendipitous spinoff from the SESS Family Institute Journal (described above). The considerations highlighted in this summary would be helpful to any organization that is working to develop true collaboration between families and professionals/practitioners. (8 pages)

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Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview and Application to the Starting Early Starting Smart Program

Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview and Application to the Starting Early Starting Smart Program

The objective of this full-length report is to offer assistance to decision makers and program implementers who are considering an assessment of costs and outcomes, including the kinds of issues that must be taken into account and why. (138 pages)

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Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview and Application to the Starting Early Starting Smart Program Executive Summary

Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview and Application to the Starting Early Starting Smart Program Executive Summary

This is a synopsis of the full-length report described above. (22 pages)

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The SESS Fact Sheet Series

A fact sheet is a single-sheet synopsis on a specific topic, issue, or finding of the Starting Early Starting Smart initiative. It is quick and easy to download and print the fact sheets below:
Products from the Starting Early Starting Smart Collaborators

Starting Early Starting Smart: The Collaboration Essentials

Starting Early Starting Smart (SESS) was a national, public-private partnership between Casey Family Programs (CFP) and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA).

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About Starting Early Starting Smart

About Starting Early Starting Smart

This is a brief overview of the Starting Early Starting Smart initiative-its objectives, collaborating organizations, approach, the study design, and the extension phase.

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Abstract of Early SESS Findings

Abstract of Early SESS Findings

A 2-page synopsis of the full-length Summary of Early Findings (see description above), which cites five key findings and selected illustrative data that support those findings.

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Guiding Principles in Providing Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Young Children and Their Families: The Starting Early Starting Smart Experience

Guiding Principles in Providing Integrated Behavioral Health Services for Young Children and Their Families: The Starting Early Starting Smart Experience

A 2-page synopsis of the SESS philosophy, principles, and core behavioral health service components, including diversity factors to consider when implementing integrated behavioral health services.

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