Research in cost-effectiveness on early interventions indicates that providing appropriate and effective mental health services and supports to young children can result in positive long-term outcomes in areas such as educational attainment, delinquency and crime, and earnings.
*Karoly, L.A., Kilburn, M.R., and Cannon, J.S. (2005). Early childhood interventions: Proven results, future promise. Arlington, VA: RAND Corporation.

I have several children. Two of the children that I adopted were very broken when they came to me. I knew how to love them but I did not know how to help them with all the emotional and physical problems that they were having. I was really flying by the seat of my pants [...]