Early Childhood Mental Health Coordinator

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Early Childhood Mental Health Coordinator

Child Focus

4629 Aicholtz Road Cincinnati, Ohio 45244

Schedule: Flexible full-time daytime hours (Monday–Friday)

Make a Lasting Impact

Make a lasting impact on the mental health of infants, young children, and families across Southern Ohio.

Why This Role

This position offers the opportunity to lead, collaborate, and make a meaningful impact in early childhood mental health—shaping systems while staying connected to children, families, and communities.

The Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) Coordinator provides strategic, clinical, and administrative leadership for a multi-funded ECMH program serving children from birth to age five and their caregivers. This role ensures the high-quality, compliant, and effective delivery of prevention, consultation, and therapeutic services while supporting and guiding a multidisciplinary team.

This position is 75% office-based and 25% community-based, offering a balance of leadership, collaboration, and direct service.

Program Leadership

• Lead day-to-day operations of a multi-funded ECMH program.
• Ensure compliance with grant and funder requirements.
• Supervise ECMH staff and support high-quality clinical and consultation services.
• Monitor outcomes and program effectiveness.

Community & Stakeholder Engagement

• Represent the ECMH program at community, stakeholder, and funder meetings.
• Build strong partnerships with early childhood providers, Early Intervention (EI), Help Me Grow, and community partners.

Direct Services & Early Intervention

• Provide evidence-based infant and early childhood mental health services (birth–5).
• Deliver dyadic and relationship-focused therapy, caregiver-child interventions, and prevention-based consultation.
• Collaborate with EI teams and service coordinators to integrate mental health supports into Individualized Family Service Plans.
• Consult with early childhood educators and childcare providers to support trauma-informed, developmentally appropriate practices.
• Maintain a limited caseload to stay clinically connected and model best practices.

Experience/Skills

• Experience in infant and early childhood mental health, early intervention, or related service provision.
• Strong leadership and supervisory skills.
• Strong organizational skills, and ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders, outcome tracking, and grant reporting.

Comprehensive Benefits Package

• Medical, vision, and dental insurance, plus EAP program.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Account options with agency match.
• 10 days of PTO for first-year employees.
• Extended illness benefits.
• 403(b) retirement plan with 6% employer match.
• Company car program and mileage reimbursement.
• Federal Student Loan Forgiveness program eligibility and tuition reimbursement.
• Paid internships.
• Childcare with 25% employee discount.
• Employee wellness benefits.
• Paid continuing education and training.
• Independently licensed supervision.

• Great Work Life Balance! Employees are supported with flexible work schedules.
• Growth and Advancement Opportunities . Leadership is committed to promoting from within and growing the next generation of leaders.
• Personal and professional value in the work they do to support children, families and adults. Employees are highly engaged.
• Free continuing education and clinical supervision for licensed employees . Child Focus financially supports employee’s professional development.

Requirements

• Required Degree: Bachelor's degree in Social Services or related field
• Preferred Degree: Master's in Social Work, Counseling, Marriage and Family Therapy
• Required credential/licensure : LSW, LPC, MFT, LISW, LPCC, or IMFT