Early Childhood Mental Health Coordinator

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.

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