In recent years, Huai'an has firmly upheld the educational concept of "health first," continuously deepened the "Heart Nourishing Action," and comprehensively explored the new path of "home-kindergarten-community" collaborative education. It has systematically promoted early childhood mental health education and built a new pattern of mental health education that involves multi-party collaboration, covers the entire region, and has distinctive characteristics.

The city has established a multi-party collaboration mechanism. It has introduced a collaborative education mechanism and the relevant implementation plan. Specifically, it is building core collaborative education teams led by kindergartens and supported by homes, communities, and universities, effectively integrating professional resources from homes, communities, and society to systematically carry out children's mental health care actions.

The city has expanded the system implementation path. It has formulated a code of conduct for teachers that emphasizes "treating students like their own children" and organized key teachers to participate in special training sessions on mental health. Besides, it regularly holds "Mental Health Mini-Classes" to enhance children's sense of security and belonging through harmonious teacher-child relationships. In addition, by uniting the professional expertise of universities, it has bridged the "last mile" in family education guidance, created a parenthood class system that integrates special lectures, online micro-videos, and interactive salons, and conducted related activities in communities.

The city has built the Xinyue course system. Focusing on dimensions such as young children's self-awareness and emotional management, it has constructed a psychological health education goal system according to age stages to provide professional guidance for teaching practice. Based on the learning characteristics of young children, it has developed mental health courses covering three aspects: student-centered activities, supportive environment, and integrated penetration. Based on "home-kindergarten-community" collaborative education, it is building a dynamic evaluation system for course implementation, supported by big data, to promote continuous optimization and quality improvement of the curriculum.