Project Launch-Illinois Southland is a collaboration between Children's Research Triangle (CRT) and the Partnership for Resilience (PfR) to promote the wellness of young children by enhancing and expanding available services in the community. PL-IS will work with children ages 0-8 and their families from Chicago's Southland, the region of southern Cook County encompassing 70 municipalities. Children and families in this area are 47% African American, 34% Caucasian and 16% Hispanic and are impacted by high rates of unemployment and poverty. The Southland lacks comprehensive services to fully address the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral needs of young children and their parents to promote healthy development and overall wellness. The goals for PL-IS include: improving cross-system collaboration, communication, joint decision making, and shared values; promoting the use of comprehensive screening and assessment in child serving agencies; improving behavioral health integration into primary care settings; increasing access and use of Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (ECMHC); and implementing a comprehensive public awareness campaign. To meet these goals, PL-IS will implement a Young Child Wellness Council (YCWC) to conduct a comprehensive needs assessment and develop a 5 year strategic plan; the YCWC will guide the project's activities. PL-IS will train community partners, including primary care providers, to screen and refer at-risk children and families (15 primary care providers trained per year for a total of 75 for the grant). Community partners will screen children and parents using standardized measures (Year 1: 750, Year 2 1,200, Year 3: 1,650, Year 4: 2,100, and Year 5: 2,550 for a total of 8,250 parents and children screened) and refer at least 75% of at-risk children and parents for community-based assessment and treatment services. PL-IS will develop a workforce training initiative to increase education and skills in screening through a college-level seminar and internship program. Family Navigator Services will be implemented to assist community partners conducting screenings with linking children and parents to appropriate referrals. PL-IS will conduct ECMHC in Head Start, early education, early care, and home visiting programs and increase the availability of credentialed consultants in the Southland. PL-IS will increase the capacity and availability of credentialed consultants in the Southland. PL-IS will increase the capacity and availability of Triple P Positive Parenting Program by training 20 new providers each year on Triple P (100 providers for the grant), which will allow at least 120 parents per year to receive Triple P (600 for the grant) services. A mental health consultant will provide 60 children and parents with evidenced-based mental health interventions (300 for the grant) as well as professional training to increase capacity to work with young children (4 agencies per grant year for a total of 20 agencies). Finally, PL-IS will implement a multifaceted public awareness campaign to improve knowledge about early childhood development, screenings, and treatment and promote project activities.